Unusual silence: Serena Williams will lack interaction with the audience.
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“It will be bizarre”: The US Open will take place – but completely different. Not all players want to venture into the Flushing Meadows tennis bubble. There is a first positive corona test before the tournament starts.
Dhe pun must have been on the editor’s tongue for a few days: “The US Open Is Looking a Bit Closed” was the line in the Saturday edition of the “New York Times” above the preliminary report on the tournament, which officially began on Monday . The “open” American tennis championships looked “a little” like a closed event. The reason: For the first time in the long history of the most important tennis tournament in the United States, which dates back to the summer of 1881 and a comparatively intimate grass field in the port town of Newport in the state of Rhode Island, the gates remain closed to spectators.
However, the game is played anyway. Because the show has to go on. Especially since there is enough space on the spacious tennis grounds in Flushing Meadows in the New York borough of Queens, where 750,000 people normally go during the two-week tournament.
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