The Cincinnati Masters in New York before the US Open: The original idea of ​​the American Federation

Cincinnati to Flushing Meadows? This is the idea of ​​the American Federation to save one of the most important Masters 1000 of the year according to information from the New Yoek Times. According to the daily, the USTA has communicated this proposal to the men’s ATP and women’s WTA circuits and is awaiting a response from them. An initiative to save the two most anticipated meetings of the summer season in North America, still kept on the calendars despite the pandemic, which has killed more than 105,000 people in the United States.

While the ATP and WTA seasons have still not resumed since their forced hiatus in mid-March, the Cincinnati Masters 1000, won last year by Daniil Medvedev, is scheduled to take place August 16-23 and l ‘US Open on August 31 or September 13. The idea is that the two tournaments are played well on these dates, so over more than a month, at the Billie Jean King National Center in New York, in order to minimize travel and health risks for players, who would be subject to quarantine. It remains to be seen whether these, for the vast majority who returned to live in their country during the pandemic, and who would benefit from an authorization to enter the United States, would wish to make the trip to New York, one of the epicenters of the coronavirus in the country.