Fans have been stunned by the number of drop-outs at the Miami Open Tennis Tournament. Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, US. Photo supplied

Tennis world shocked after scores of players drop out of Miami Open

Fifteen players have already dropped out of the Miami Open, an unprecedented number for a major sports event.

Published: April 2, 2022, 10:03 am

    Miami

    The tennis world reacted with shock after favorites Paula Badosa and Jannik Sinner had to retire during the quarterfinals of the Miami Open. Badosa, soon to be the number three in the world, became unwell during her match against Jessica Pegula and left the court in tears.

    Badosa, who was comforted by her American opponent, decided to stop after consultation with her physiotherapist. Pegula reached the semifinals of the Miami tennis tournament for the first time in her career after Badosa’s resignation, reported Yahoo Sports.

    In the men’s tournament, the Italian phenomenon Jannik Sinner was forced to withdraw. He gave up after 22 minutes in the game against Francisco Cerundolo, the number 103 in the world ranking. “When I served at 3-1 and 30-0, I saw him bend over. It was very strange,” Cerundolo said during an interview. “I hope he’s okay, he’s a great player.”

    The 23-year-old Argentinian surprisingly reached the semifinals with his first participation in the master tournament in Miami.

    It was the second game in a row that ended prematurely for the tennis fans. Fans reacted with shock to the bizarre tennis day. “What is going on?” someone asked.

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    72 comments

    1. Comment by Rentia Diedericks on April 2, 2022 at 2:01 pm

    2. Game set and match Myocarditis.

      Comment by Zedekiah Smyth on April 2, 2022 at 3:18 pm

    3. it was nearly 80 degrees in Miami today.
      https://media2.giphy.com/media/xUStFKHmuFPYk/giphy.gif

      Comment by jack on April 3, 2022 at 10:51 pm

    4. So. They play in much hotter weather in Australia and all over the world.

      Comment by ImaGorilla on April 6, 2022 at 4:35 am

    5. Yeah. That’s what cause it lol.

      Comment by Deplorable on April 6, 2022 at 4:59 am

    6. ABSOLUTELY! People are dropping all over the world. The life insurance companies are panicking. And they’re all vaxxed people, as many of us said would be happening. It’s one of the stated goals of the Elitist billionaires who have been pushing the shots. And sadly, there are still people who will argue to defend them.

      Comment by AFreeMan on April 4, 2022 at 2:32 am

    7. Game. set and d’ eath. This is just the beginning for these people and millions more for a far to early entry to a coffin. Wait and see, in time it will seem like a fall day in Virginia, only it won’t be leaves hitting the ground.

      Comment by GRRRR.. DJT is our PRESIDENT 🏛 on April 7, 2022 at 10:39 am

    8. KARMA GET REKT ^^

      Comment by crunkjuic3 on April 8, 2022 at 10:03 am

    9. Could it be the experimental gene therapy shot?
      Can we even ask that question?

      Comment by Joseph Powell on April 2, 2022 at 8:04 pm

    10. No no no, it must certainly be the lack of a fourth shot. If they had taken that they surely would have been fine.

      Comment by Slasher2 on April 3, 2022 at 9:00 pm

    11. LOL funny comment ! It’a funny because some retards actually believe a 4th or 5th booster will work unlike the predecessors.

      Comment by John Ulrich on April 4, 2022 at 6:21 pm

    12. come on its the climate or russia

      Comment by MSM on April 5, 2022 at 9:59 am

    13. No mention of the potential cause? No mention of the epidemic of healthy young athletes in their prime across numerous sports that have been dropping like flies over the past 12 months? Perhaps the COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis? This is reminiscent of news articles that fail to mention the race of the perpetrator. It is deceit by omission.

      Comment by jackbenimble on April 2, 2022 at 8:07 pm

    14. It’s obvious that it’s the shot. Only jabbed players allowed. Novak Djokovic was a no-show at the Miami Open because current CDC regulations require non-U.S. citizens to be fully vaccinated to travel to the United States by plane, and the 20-time major champion is unvaccinated against COVID-19.

      Comment by Rentia Diedericks on April 3, 2022 at 3:25 pm

    15. At this rate Novak who wasn’t even there will be the winner by default because everybody else will be dropping dead.

      Comment by jackbenimble on April 3, 2022 at 8:02 pm

    16. Hopefully!

      Comment by crunkjuic3 on April 8, 2022 at 10:04 am

    17. At least he’s still alive …

      Comment by Paulinus Ordovician on April 12, 2022 at 9:53 am

    18. “These are not the droids you’re looking for.”

      Comment by FThumb on April 3, 2022 at 5:41 pm

    19. I don´t understand why it is so important to you that the race of a perpetrator be publicly announced?

      Comment by SeaHawk68 on April 4, 2022 at 6:33 am

    20. First, because crime stories often involve suspects who have not yet been captured, so “race” should be part of a description, esp. in local reports.
      Second, because if a certain culture in a society is breeding anti-social, criminal, and violent behavior, it’s necessary to identify that culture in order to address the problem. If “race” (or “nationality”) is a salient marker of the culture, it’s important. The Mafia is associated with Italians (white people), not the Japanese. SWAPO wasn’t composed of Hispanic people. There aren’t many Aleuts among the fighters of ISIS. To pretend otherwise is to ignore reality.

      Comment by DaveGinOly on April 6, 2022 at 7:10 am

    21. Then why is so important for the MSM when the perp is white?

      Can’t have it both ways son.

      Comment by mumbo_jumbo on April 6, 2022 at 8:29 am

    22. 13/50

      Comment by James on April 6, 2022 at 3:10 pm

    23. You must not be an American! In the USA race is arguably the most important of all issues. When it’s ignored, it’s for some devious political reason. Anyone who lives here knows that.

      Comment by plastic person of the U on April 6, 2022 at 6:17 pm

    24. Because it is important information that helps me keep myself and my family safe. Jessie Jackson himself once told a story about walking down the street, hearing a group of young people behind him and turning around and to his great relief finding that they were white people.

      Yes, I engage in stereotyping and so does anybody with a brain. Some stereotypes are false and unhelpful and should be discouraged. But most stereotypes are generalizations that are based in truth. The truth is that in the USA an appallingly large percentage of all violent crimes (over 50%) are committed by a tiny sliver of our population (about 4%) of young black men. It is tragic and frightening.

      I would love to wake up some day in the future and find that the stereotype about black crime is no longer a true stereotype but rather falls in the false category that should be discarded. But until young black men quit committing far more crimes then their proportionate share of the population I will stick with stereotyping them. If I meet a particular young black man, I will judge the individual on individual merits. But as a group they have and continue to earn their negative stereotype. Judging them in this manner is an essential survival skill as automatic as seeing a lion and recognizing it as dangerous. It has been engrained in us for millions of years. Sure, there are probably some nice lions that have no interest in eating humans but as a group it is foolhardy to perceive them as anything as dangerous. I might revise my opinion of the nice lion after I am introduced to him as an individual.

      Comment by jackbenimble on April 7, 2022 at 7:39 pm

    25. Could be the jab is starting to short circuit these top athletes. Keep moving, nothing tho see here!!

      Comment by plowboy6 on April 2, 2022 at 8:08 pm

    26. You have gotten what you desired. A spliced gene from a pig, bat and bird able to cross over. Elon’s pleas to preserve the consciousness and man’s genes must be changed. Bill’s plan to depopulate to a number the earth can handle, 250,000,000. A activation jab. Eventual cross breeding all peoples blood. Be prepared for some really freaky looking men and women in the now.

      Comment by halfcack on April 2, 2022 at 9:28 pm

    27. what is going on? holy cow. willful ignorance and normalcy bias from entrainment is going on around what they call gene therapy using inoculation. two years to research the plandemic and still ‘what is going on’?

      Comment by scholarandrogue on April 3, 2022 at 4:43 am

    28. And no VAERS data. In 2021, the CDC changed the instructions given to the contractors that they employ to look for safety signals. It used to be “protect the patient.” They changed it to “protect the vaccine.” Changed “patient” to “vaccine” to hide the number of injuries.

      Comment by Rentia Diedericks on April 4, 2022 at 10:17 am

    29. “GOF Reveals that SARS-CoV-2 is Man Made & Paid for by U.S Taxpayers

      1999: U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS) funds research amplifying the infectious character of Coronaviruses.

      2000: In May* Ralph Baric successfully uses reverse genetics (cDNA**) to rescued infectious clone*** of SARS-CoV Urbani.

      2002:In April Christopher M Curtis, Boyd Young & Ralph Baric file a patent for a recombinant (chimeric) DNA means of producing “an infectious, replication defective, coronavirus.” Funded by NIH Grant GM63228. Dr. Shi Zhengli and colleagues increase infectivity by combining an HIV pseudovirus with SARS-CoV-1.

      2003: Dr. Ralph Baric at UNC Chapel Hill receives NIH grant AI23946-08 officially classified as affiliated with NIAID. • Baric works on synthetically altering Coronaviridae.

      2006: Chinese**** researchers combine HCV, HIV-1, SARS-CoV-1 & SARS-CoV-2.

      2007: NSF Grant IIS-0513650 (Italy, France and Indiana University) study addresses FIRST CRITICAL STEP to control a pandemic – shut down International Travel. Given this knowledge why did Fauci tell Trump a Travel Ban was unnecessary?

      2011: Scientists express Concerns about GoF after Labs in Wisconsin and the Netherlands mutate already lethal H5N1 Asian Avian Influenza Virus (Bird Flu) increasing infectivity.

      2013: Middle East Respiratory Virus (MERS) outbreak with 30-40% fatality in Saudi Arabia (2014) and South Korea (2015). Rhesus macaques show early treatement with interferon-α2b and ribavirin critical to treatment success.

      Baric***** and Chinese scientists isolate 3 coronaviruses from bats with HKU4 spike protein – unable to infect human cells.

      2014: CDC accidentally exposes workers to Anthrax; ships deadly flu virus. NIH finds 50-year old forgotten vials of smallpox. Obama Administration halts Gain-of-Function Research

      2015: Dr. Zhengli et al “re-engineered HKU4 spike aiming to build its capacity to infect human cells.” “To this end, we introduced two single mutations…mutations in these motifs in coronavirus spikes have demonstrated dramatic effects on viral entry into human cells.”

      Baric and Zhengli announce they can make a more dangerous, virulent and infectious virus. ******

      2017: Gain-of-Function Research Ban Lifted

      2018: Zhengli presents research at Shanghai Jiao Tong University on 14 Nov. 2018 entitled “Studies on Bat Coronavirus and its cross-species infection.”
      This presentation has since been deleted from the University website.

      2019: Summer deletion of Wuhan Institute of Virology Corona Virus data bank.

      December 31 Wuhan Municipal Health Commission report******* discussing COVID-19 pneumonia – deleted”
      * U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/206,537, filed May 21, 2000
      ** Complimentary DNA is Reverse Transcription (mRNA->DNA) frequently using Moloney murine leukemia virus.
      *** https://www.pnas.org/content/100/22/12995
      **** Huang Q, Cheng Y, Guo Q, Li Q. Preparation of a Chimeric Armored RNA as a Versatile Calibrator for Multiple Virus Assays. Clinchem 2006; 52(7):1446-1448 and Supplement A.
      ***** Yang Y…Baric RS, et al. Receptor usage and cell entry of bat coronavirus HKU4 provide insight into bat-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus. PNAS 2014;111(34):12516-12521. Funded with NIH grants RO1AI089728 &
      ****** Zhengli S, Baric RS, et sl. Two Mutations Were Critical for Bat-to-Human Transmission of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus. J Virol.2015;89(17):9199-9123. Funded by NIH grants RO1AI089728, RO1AI110700.
      ******* Wuhan City Health Committee (WCHC). Wuhan Municipal Health and Health Commission’s briefing on the current pneumonia epidemic situation in our city 2019 [updated 31 December 2019, 14 January 2020]. Available from: http://wjw.wuhan.gov.cn/front/web/showDetail/2019123108989

      https://21a86421-c3e0-461b-83c2-cfe4628dfadc.filesusr.com/ugd/659775_6f632cc8d75d4d8c8b90cc749262f4b4.pdf

      Comment by Postkey on April 3, 2022 at 10:37 am

    30. Experimental gene therapies apparently DO have unpredictable consequences.

      Comment by Fal Phil on April 3, 2022 at 2:25 pm

    31. If you think this was un-predictable, you haven’t been paying attention to the people who have been saying “Don’t get the shot!” for the last 2 or 3 years…

      100% predictable, AND PREDICTED.

      Comment by letmepicyou on April 3, 2022 at 8:34 pm

    32. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣FairyFluff!

      Comment by MrPoohead on April 3, 2022 at 10:28 pm

    33. Don’t recognize sarcasm very easily, do you?

      Comment by Fal Phil on April 3, 2022 at 10:45 pm

    34. Sometimes it doesn’t translate well in text. It misses the vocal inflections and the purposefully overstated eye-rolling.

      Comment by letmepicyou on April 3, 2022 at 11:32 pm

    35. It translated fine if you are not a retard.

      Comment by James on April 6, 2022 at 3:11 pm

    36. May I suggest a sign? I sell signs. This sign is on special today and comes with a 7-day free trial. If you’re not happy with it, simply cancel and your credit card will not be charged!

      #Sarcasm; or
      #SarcasmSign for the truly slow.

      Comment by Tom Kaye on April 4, 2022 at 1:49 am

    37. Good to see you here coach 😊👍🏻

      Comment by Baseballmomof8 on April 4, 2022 at 10:35 pm

    38. I know, right? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve read. Unpredictable, my farts.

      Comment by Eros Sinema on April 6, 2022 at 7:02 am

    39. Who would have thought….

      Comment by Slasher2 on April 3, 2022 at 8:58 pm

    40. Unpredictable. But not unexpected.

      This is just the beginning and it’s going to get MUCH worse. God help the stupid because they can only injure themselves.

      Comment by Tom Kaye on April 4, 2022 at 1:47 am

    41. What i am hearing is that the naturally infected, such as myself, are also in eventual danger as our DNA is also now modified, so they may have ‘got us coming and going’ but maybe and hopefully not to the same extent…hmmmm

      Comment by jacquelynsauriol on April 5, 2022 at 3:56 am

    42. The Spike protein in Covid-19 is a man made disaster. Whether you got infected with the virus or jabbed with the shot, you got the same spike proteins in your body. That is the reason they shutdown the global economy and went so authoritarian with this. It’s why you see Joe Biden and especially Vladimir Putin take such extreme measures to stay away from other people. They know the long term affects of this virus are catastrophic.

      Comment by MAGA MAN on April 7, 2022 at 6:13 pm

    43. Unpredictable? Says who? Any smart person knew they would cause this and more.

      Comment by Eros Sinema on April 6, 2022 at 7:01 am

    44. Ha ha, looks like Novak won’t have many opponents when he comes back

      Comment by john on April 3, 2022 at 3:06 pm

    45. Karma! 15 more publishers clearing house Clottery Winners!!!!! Yaaaay!

      Comment by Somethingintheway on April 3, 2022 at 9:57 pm

    46. But at least they won’t get Corona! Maybe one of the variants, but not Corona. Cuz it’s already been replaced.

      If they do get Corona, what were the odds of a healthy person under the age of 35 dying from Corona IF they contracted it? 10,000 to 1? 50,000 to 1? or was it 100,000 to 1? More? I never cared enough to remember cuz I had no intention of taking the vaccine.

      Their tennis careers are over. But at least they won’t contract Corona.

      Comment by Tom Kaye on April 4, 2022 at 1:44 am

    47. You claim that “Fifteen players have already dropped out of the Miami Open” but you don’t even say who these 15 players are, let alone give a link to your source for that claim. Are you a division of CNN?

      Comment by Eli Dumitru on April 4, 2022 at 3:22 am

    48. Comment by ViolentlyRemoved on April 4, 2022 at 8:26 pm

    49. Would the author please include the 15 names of those who dropped out of the Miami Open to authenticate this article. Thank you.

      Comment by SeaHawk68 on April 4, 2022 at 7:20 am

    50. Most of them are players giving up in the early rounds at e.g. 1-6 0-3, when they have tried to play unfit and it has not worked. Two did not play at all, possible positive tests. The two “favorites” in the article would not have been favorites in the semi-finals. It all looks normal and I doubt anyone has been shocked…

      Comment by Roger M Atkinsson on April 4, 2022 at 12:35 pm

    51. Comment by Rentia Diedericks on April 4, 2022 at 10:03 am

    52. Watch what happens with the NFL football season this year.

      Comment by William W on April 4, 2022 at 7:02 pm

    53. im excited and european championchips MUAHHAAHA

      Comment by crunkjuic3 on April 8, 2022 at 10:07 am

    54. Maybe they heard that Will Smith and his wife are going to be at the presentation.

      Comment by PJ London on April 4, 2022 at 8:15 pm

    55. Vax? Or some new man made virus/bacteria.

      Comment by Baseballmomof8 on April 4, 2022 at 10:32 pm

    56. Dr. Bryan Ardis has a good protocol for the vaxxed… but he leaves out MY best recommendation Chlorine Dioxide Solution CDS and Lumbrokinase.
      Liberals, pls ignore this!

      Comment by GODFREY on April 6, 2022 at 4:20 am

    57. Can we take out life insurance policies on the ”vcxx’d”. If drug companies can gamble with lives why can’t we play too?

      Comment by BOPOS on April 6, 2022 at 4:30 am

    58. OOps! Shouldn’t have gotten that second booster, Coolio!

      Comment by disqus_lNnqD2RhdS on April 6, 2022 at 4:37 am

    59. !!!!! JabaDabaDoooooo !!!!!

      Comment by Last Hand=All In on April 6, 2022 at 4:54 am

    60. Listen to Fauci in 2004… He says if you get the flu.. you have the best prevention with natural immunity. STOP listening to CNN you firkin uneducated lunatics. —- “I CAN EXPLAIN IT TO YOU, BUT I CAN’T UNDERSTAND IT FOR YOU”

      Comment by john kli on April 6, 2022 at 5:31 am

    61. As I’ve said before…. If you were shown a video of Joe Biden raping a 12 yr old handicapped little girl; you liberals would blame the little girl or say the video was taken out of context. FACT!

      Comment by john kli on April 6, 2022 at 5:34 am

    62. Or they would dismiss it and say Trump has done worse

      Comment by MAGA MAN on April 7, 2022 at 6:26 pm

    63. The elites figure the bulk of the vax takers will be too sick yp work after three years or dead. So this will be wild ride , especially when they go nuts with cover up operations.

      Comment by Daniel Osborne on April 6, 2022 at 6:58 am

    64. I wonder who forced the young and healthy to get a poison shot didn’t even need? Can they sue them for ruining their health?

      Comment by Lee Ann Sellman on April 6, 2022 at 1:48 pm

    65. Hopefully all MSM ANCHORS WILL DIE SOON

      Comment by jaq blu on April 6, 2022 at 3:52 pm

    66. Hello, McFly?

      Comment by Thomas Paine on April 6, 2022 at 4:49 pm

    67. Pardon me if I’m stupid, but I didn’t see the #1 thing readers want to know, which is this….did these players get the clot shot or didn’t they?
      My money’s on a big fat YES, bless their hearts. And their hearts need blessing if they did get the jab!

      Comment by Westcoastdeplorable on April 6, 2022 at 6:44 pm

    68. If you haven’t heard the thousands of doctors, cardiologists and epidemiologists screaming about blood clots and heart problems by now, then you’ve been asleep. Athletes are experiencing adverse reactions to the vaccinations because the faster the heart pumps and blood flows, the more “tiny razor blades” travel throughout the system. They’ve been warning about this for 2 years. And Pfizer is not liable. Wake up.

      Comment by MsFreedomWatch on April 6, 2022 at 7:10 pm

    69. Can you say Vaccination!?
      They are pushing more vaccinations and are using placebos IMO, the more people “vaxxed” the lower the percentage goes for adverse reactions. 350, 400,000,000 vaccinations with 18,000 deaths is a small percentage of death when you have it up against so many vaccinations. They are using placebos, the vaxx doesn’t work anyways and now they will continue to push it.
      This was sinister from the get go!

      Comment by 1ColtonDelaney643 on April 6, 2022 at 8:00 pm

    70. Get 18 boosters

      Comment by Spencer on April 6, 2022 at 8:33 pm

    71. The young man from North Carolina was having some kind of “Episode” near the end of the national championship game. Reporter said he got the wind knowed out of him….BS.

      Comment by 1ToughNut on April 7, 2022 at 12:48 am

    72. Vaccines

      Comment by Calvin on April 8, 2022 at 3:54 pm

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