US Tennis Association Assure Safety Measures Ahead Of Grand Slam

COVID-19: US Tennis Association Assure Safety Measures Ahead Of US Open

US Tennis Association Assure Safety Measures Ahead Of Grand Slam

Ahead of US Open grand slam tennis event scheduled to hold August, 31, 2020 in New York, the US Tennis Association assure top safety measure as US COVID-19 outbreaks increase.

Speaking to newsmen over the weekend the US Tennis Association said: “We remain confident that our top priority, the health and safety of all involved in both tournaments, remains on track.”

What is unclear at this point is which players will participate. While Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka have said she will be at both events, for example, current women’s No. 1 Ash Barty is staying away. Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal have not made their plans known.

The US Tennis Association statement added that details of its health and safety plan will be released closer to the start of competition. The group said it is working with the WTA and ATP tours.

The US Tennis Association is putting most players and their limited entourages in specific hotels — creating something of a bubble environment — but also is allowing participants to rent private houses.

Professional tennis has been on hiatus since March because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The women’s tour is supposed to return next week with a tournament in Palermo, Italy.

“New York State continues to be one of the safest places in the country as it relates to the COVID-19 virus,” the USTA said.

That’s now true — although the area was a major U.S. hot spot early in the pandemic, so much so that a building at the U.S. Open site was used as a temporary hospital.

New York hospitals saw more than 18,000 patients with COVID-19 at a time in mid-April when infections surged and more than 750 patients with the illness died each day in hospitals and nursing homes. Those figures plunged in May, and rates of hospitalizations and new positive COVID-19 cases have been relatively stable since June.

“We are constantly and continually monitoring the situation. Right now in New York, the situation has improved dramatically. The state has done a tremendous job containing the coronavirus,” USTA spokesman Chris Widmaier said. “We also are making tremendous progress in international travel, not only for coming to New York but traveling from here to Europe and elsewhere. So at this moment, we are very confident we will be holding the two events in those scheduled dates.”

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