New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo mentioned Tuesday that the U.S. Open tennis match will held in past due August as a part of the state’s reopening from shutdowns brought about through the coronavirus pandemic.
The U.S. Tennis Association had determined to move ahead with its marquee match in New York City with out spectators, pending an OK from the state.
Like many sports activities leagues, the pro tennis excursions had been suspended since March as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The U.S. Open typically is every season’s fourth and ultimate Grand Slam match however will be the 2nd of 2020, following the Australian Open, which concluded in early February.
“We’re excited about the U.S. Open, (which) is going to be held in Queens, Aug. 31 through Sept. 13. It will be held without fans, but you can watch it on TV — and I’ll take that,” Cuomo mentioned at his day-to-day briefing in Albany. “The tennis authorities are going to be taking extraordinary precautions, but that’s going to take place.”
The French Open was once postponed from May and lately is scheduled to begin per week after the U.S. Open ends. Wimbledon was once canceled altogether for the primary time since World War II in 1945.
Even with the go-ahead from the state, one vital query stays for the U.S. Open: Which avid gamers in truth will take part?
Such most sensible names as each No. 1-ranked avid gamers, Novak Djokovic and Ash Barty, and protecting males’s champion Rafael Nadal, have expressed reservations about heading to Flushing Meadows, the place an indoor tennis facility was once used as a brief house for loads of health center beds on the peak of town’s coronavirus disaster.
Already dominated out, regardless: Roger Federer, who has received 5 of his males’s-record 20 Grand Slam singles titles on the U.S. Open however introduced just lately that he’s out for the remainder of the 12 months after desiring a 2nd arthroscopic surgical procedure on his proper knee.
With global TV contracts — together with an annual reasonable of $70 million from ESPN by myself — serving to offset the lack of cash from price tag gross sales and different onsite income, and going through a recession that already resulted in the hot removing of greater than 100 jobs on the USTA, the affiliation’s board determined to move ahead with its marquee match in spite of issues about COVID-19 and global shuttle.