As instances of coronavirus in other parts of the country increase a month before the U.S. Open begins in New York, the American Tennis Association said Friday that it “continues its plan” to organize its flagship occasion and some other tournament in advance.
The U.S. Open, the last Grand Slam tournament of the year, but the time in 2020 due to the pandemic, is scheduled to take up positions from August 31 to September 13.
The Billie Jean King National Tennis Center will also host the Western – Southern Open from August 20 to 28; This progression moved from Cincinnati as a component of a dual program organized through the USTA.
Players will be allowed on August 16.
A statement released Friday through the USTA said: “We remain convinced that our most sensible priority, the fitness and protection of everyone involved in any of the tournaments, is still on the way.”
What is transparent at this level is which players will participate. While Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka said she would attend any of the events, such as Ash Barty, the number one women, remains marginalized. Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal have unveiled their plans.
The USTA added that the main points of its fitness and protection plan will be launched closer to the start of the competition. The organization said it was running with the WTA and ATP tours.
The USTA puts players at maximum and limited landscape in express hotels, creating a type of bubble environment, but also participants to hire personal homes.
Professional tennis has been on hiatus since March due to the coronavirus outbreak. The women’s tour is expected to return next week with a tournament in Palermo, Italy.
“The state of New York remains one of the safest places in the country for the COVID-19 virus,” the USTA said.
This is now true: the region was a primary hot spot in the United States at the start of the pandemic, so much so that a construction at the U.S. open site. It was used as a transit hospital.
New York City hospitals won more than 18,000 COVID-19 patients in mid-April, when infections increased and more than 750 patients with the disease died daily in hospitals and nursing homes. These numbers declined in May, and hospitalization rates and new positive instances of COVID-19 have been strong since June.
“We are constantly following the stage. Right now, in New York, the stage has made considerable progress. The state has done a super task of containing the coronavirus,” USTA spokesman Chris Widmaier said. “We are also taking great steps in foreign Array, not only to come to New York, but also to go from here to Europe and elsewhere. So right now, we’re pretty sure we’ll arrange any occasion on the scheduled dates.”
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