Former US Open champions Andy Murray and Kim Clijsters have received wildcard entries to 2020 edition of the Grand Slam, organisers announced on Thursday.
The tournament will take place in a quarantined setting from August 31 to September 13 in New York. The Western & Southern Open, which was relocated from Cincinnati this year, will be held from August 20-28 as a warm-up event for the Grand Slam.
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Both Murray and Clijsters have also received a wildcard entry into the Western & Southern Open, but Murray said on Monday that players travelling to New York need assurance that they would not face mandatory quarantine after returning to Europe.
Murray, a former world number one who won his US Open title in 2012, missed the tournament in 2017 and 2019 due to injury.
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Clijsters, who won the tournament in 2005, 2009 and 2010, returned to action after nearly eight years away from the sport in 2020, competing in World TeamTennis' three-week season that kicked off in July at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia.
The US Open wildcard entries also include seven American men and seven American women, organisers added.
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