Russian \u2060tennis players Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev will not arrive \u200cin Indian Wells in time to \u200cparticipate in Tuesday night’s exhibition \u200cevent after they were among \u200cthose impacted by travel disruptions in \u200cthe wake of the war in Iran.<\/p>\n
The United States and \u200cIsrael launched air strikes on \u2060Iran \u200cover the weekend and the conflict has \u200bled to airspace closures and widespread flight cancellations across \u200bparts of the Gulf, disrupting a key transit hub for \u2060international sports.<\/p>\n
Former \u200bworld number one Medvedev<\/a>, who won the Dubai Championships title via a walkover on Saturday, had \u200cbeen scheduled to play in the Eisenhower Cup, a one-night Tie Break Tens doubles event alongside fellow Russian Mirra Andreeva<\/a>.<\/p>\n American Amanda Anisimova<\/a> had been paired with Rublev<\/a> for the popular event on the eve of the \u200cmain draw of the Indian \u200bWells tournament in the Southern \u200cCalifornia desert.<\/p>\n Seeded 11th, Medvedev’s first singles match is scheduled for Friday. Rublev, the 17th seed, is also scheduled to play \u2060on \u2060Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian \u2060tennis players Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev will not arrive \u200cin Indian Wells in time to \u200cparticipate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-517493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}