"Only in tennis does this happen": Tennis fans react with dismay as US Open refuses to budge on night sessions

Amin Khalaf

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This is not about #USOpen caring about the fans. This is about them selling tickets. I am sure all tennis players want nothing more than to play matches that end at 1 AM. Only in tennis does this happen…..

Gray Thompson

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Crap answer from Allaster. This is a once a year event. Attendee can make a once a year arrangement to get to a 6:00 start time. Allaster cares about prime time revenue. Not about the fans who have to commute home between 1-2:00 am and not about the players.

mcin412.bsky.social

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Real fans in the US are up at 3am east for Melbourne night sessions and til 1am for the US Open. It's only a few days a year when you add it up. Casuals are always gonna be flaky. It's not every night of the tournament either. It's only the most memorable ones. Fish or cut bait

PhineMotorSkills

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So their priority is whether *fans* can get to a match on time and not whether *players* can get to sleep on time. Oh it's not fair for the fans, it's really hard for the fans, the poor fans. Zero evaluation of anything that might be fair for the players.

Amin Khalaf

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This is not about #USOpen caring about the fans. This is about them selling tickets. I am sure all tennis players want nothing more than to play matches that end at 1 AM. Only in tennis does this happen…..

SW

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For night matches, one men’s and one women’s or doubles. Play the women’s or doubles first. If they need to play men’s first and it goes more than 4 hrs, reschedule 2nd match to next day. Common sense. Presumably most fans will feel they got value with 4+ hours.

mark imbong

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they've got to determine which problem they want to address: fans' safety or players' health with matches ending past midnight or the empty seats if the night session starts an hour earlier. clearly not an easy choice to make but it comes with the job #USOpen23

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@DaleKerr

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It’s obvious to me that tennis matches need to be shorter. Think of ways to make that happen. eg. No repeat deuces, deuce is game point for both players. Final set is a Match tiebreaker. We don’t need 70-68 sets. We don’t need 4-5 hour matches.