Tennis is about to resume and there are many opinions and ways to restart the sport. While there is an overall idea of playing tournaments without fans, some events may have a limited amount of spectators.
An event is about to commence in Prague with up to 2,000 fans and another exhibition will take place in Germany with up to 800 spectators attending. In addition, the Roland Garros has recently stated to have a bold plan to have fans attending the event filling 50-60% capacity of the premises.
US Open with some fans
The US Open announced that they had the go-ahead from the local government for the major to be staged. The slam was originally planned to be played strictly with no fans. Nevertheless, things may change as the organization is pondering the idea of allowing spectators who served as front-line workers or first responders during the pandemic.
Talking to ESPN, Lew Sherr, chief revenue officer of the USTA, revealed:
“If New York is still looking great in a month and a half, we may act opportunistically. You might see us invite some number of frontal-line workers, health care workers and their families. It’s a possibility that we’ve talked about, but nobody has put pencil to paper on it.
If there’s an opportunity to do something nice to recognize folks that deserve it, we’ll be open to it. It will inject a little more energy, but the health and safety of the players and staff comes first.”
Actually, allowing people involved in fighting the pandemic in the premises could be a good idea as they are widely expected to strictly follow the rules as they know quite well what may happen if things go south. Still, everything has to be confirmed.
