MELBOURNE - Australian Paralympic tennis champion Dylan Alcott has slammed the omission of the wheelchair tournament from the U.S. Open, calling it "disgusting discrimination".
Electronic line-calling will be used instead of line judges for U.S. Open matches at all courts except the two largest arenas, while singles qualifying and mixed doubles, junior and wheelchair competition are being eliminated entirely.
Bianca Andreescu says she supports the United States Tennis Association’s decision to hold this year’s U.S. Open.
Proposals to play this year’s US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows have been approved by New York governor, Andrew Cuomo. That means that the second Major of 2020 will begin as scheduled on 31 August.
The women’s and men’s professional tennis tours have issued what they are calling “provisional” calendars that would resume sanctioned competition in August after being suspended since early March because of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The ATP and WTA in April announced the launch of a new weekly show called Tennis United, to feature interviews with ATP and WTA players, as well as other influential figures from throughout the game, on a variety of topics.
USTA president Katrina Adams officially announces the 2020 U.S. Open will indeed go ahead as originally planned, starting Monday August 24th, also discusses her excitement for the USTA’s support on the fight against racism and social injustice.
Simona Halep does not currently plan to play the U.S. Open with the health protocols put in place by the organisers for the Grand Slam due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Romanian women’s world number two told Reuters on Wednesday.
