7月21日，美网组委会公布今年参赛名单，德约科维奇榜上有名。    Chevron is buying Hess Corp. for $53 billion and it’s not even the biggest acquisition in the energy sector this month as major producers seize the initiative while oil prices surge.Crude prices rose sharply in early 2022 with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and are hovering around $90 per barrel after ticking another 9% higher this year. That has made big drillers cash rich and they are looking for places to invest. The Chevron-Hess deal comes less than two weeks after Exxon Mobil said that it would acquire Pioneer Natural Resources for about $60 billion. Upward pressure on oil prices are being applied from a number of fronts including the war in Ukraine. Oil markets are being stretched by cutbacks in oil production from Saudi Arabia and Russia, and now, a war between Israel and Hamas runs the risk of igniting a broader conflict in the Middle East. While attacks on Israel do not disrupt global oil supply, according to an analysis by the U.S Energy Information Administration, “they raise the potential for oil supply disruptions and higher oil prices.”Chevron said Monday that the acquisition of Hess adds a major oil field in Guyana as well as shale properties in the Bakken Formation in North Dakota. Guyana is a South American country of 791,000 people that is poised to become the world’s fourth-largest offshore oil producer, placing it ahead of Qatar, the United States, Mexico and Norway. It has become a major producer in recent years with oil giants, including Exxon Mobil, China’s CNOOC, and also Hess, squared off in a heated competition for highly lucrative oil fields in northern South America.“This combination is aligned with our objective to safely deliver higher returns and lower carbon,” Chevron Chairman and CEO Mike Wirth said in prepared remarks. “In addition, Hess increases Chevron’s estimated production and free cash flow growth rates over the next five years, and is expected to extend our growth profile into the next decade supporting our plans to increase our peer-leading dividend growth and share repurchases.”=Chevron is paying for Hess with stock. Hess shareholders will receive 1.0250 shares of Chevron for each Hess share. Including debt, Chevron valued the deal at $60 billion. And even with alarms being raised over climate change after a summer of record-smashing temperatures, elevated energy prices have driven more exploration and more drilling, and big payouts for investors. There have been a number of acquisitions focused on U.S. shale fields and another round of consolidation in the energy sector began during the pandemic as big producers sought to cut costs. In the summer of 2020, Chevron announced that it was buying Noble Energy for $5 billion. Chevron made the deal when crude prices were down more than 30% in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. That same year, ConocoPhillips bought shale producer Concho Resources in an all-stock deal valued at $9.7 billion.Last month Britain gave the go-ahead for a major oil and gas project in the North Sea, ignoring warnings from scientists and the United Nations that countries must stop developing new fossil fuel resources if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change.Chevron said the deal will help to increase the amount of cash given back to shareholders. The company anticipates that in January it will be able to recommend boosting its first-quarter dividend by 8% to $1.63. This would still need board approval. The company also expects to increase stock buybacks by $2.5 billion to the top end of its guidance range of $20 billion per year once the transaction closes.The boards of both Chevron and Hess have approved the deal announced Monday after six months of negotiations, and is targeted to close in the first half of next year. It still needs approval by Hess shareholders. John Hess, the company's CEO, is expected to join Chevron’s board. His family owns a large chunk of Hess. Shares of Chevron Corp., based in San, Ramon, California, declined more than 3% Monday. Share of Hess Corp., based in New York City, fell slightly.。但主办方美国网球协会随即解释称，名单只是按照世界排名生成，美网方面会严格执行美国政府的入境规定。这意味着德约如果不打新冠疫苗无法入境美国，也无法参加美网大赛。美国网球协会表示，这份参赛名单包括了截止到7月18日，根据WTA和ATP排名符合资格的所有球员。根据国际网球组织的大满贯参赛规则，大满贯赛事开始前42天符合资格的选手，根据排名自动进入男单和女单的抽签区。另一方面，美国网球协会强调，如果德约想参加美网，首先要入境美国，这意味着他必须接种疫苗。美网将尊重美国政府的立场，没有接种疫苗的非美国人将无法入境。此外，作为美网硬地赛季重要一站，在加拿大举行的罗杰斯杯大师赛主办方也对德约参赛说不。

二 | 赛事主管拉皮埃尔证实，入境加拿大需要接种疫苗。而加拿大政府不会为了球员改变规则。此前加拿大卫生部长已经表示，不会为德约改变规则，“规则适用于所有人，即使有例外，也是有限度的例外，更何况疫情还没有结束。

三 | 再说一次，我们需要让加拿大人意识到接种疫苗的重要性。” 目前男单世界第一德约能否参加美网已经引发广泛讨论。支持者游说美国多位参议员为德约出头，网络上还发起了请愿活动，已经有12000人签名，希望美国政府允许德约参赛。但从目前情况看，德约科维奇也许只能向美网硬地赛季告别了。文/本报记者 褚鹏