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Jonathan Spencer

Greg Rusedski almost pulled out of 1997 US Open due to Princess Diana's death

Greg Rusedski was gearing up for a crunch fourth-round US Open contest back in 1997 before tragedy struck, which left the whole of Britain mourning.

It had just gone 10pm in New York when Rusedski received a phone call in his his hotel room telling him to put the news on, with American news networks reporting that Princess Diana had been involved in a serious car crash in Paris.

With his huge US Open match on the horizon, Rusedski was left fearing the worst as he went to sleep in his hotel before the news of her sudden death was confirmed just before midnight.

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