{"id":455418,"date":"2023-08-18T16:45:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455418"},"modified":"2023-08-18T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:53:06","slug":"us-open-wont-change-evening-matches-schedule","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/us-open-wont-change-evening-matches-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open won&#8217;t change evening matches schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Open organizers are discussing the issue with late matches in the tournament, but director Stacey Allaster said the Grand Slam had no plans to change its schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The evening session at Flushing Meadows starts at 7pm, meaning matches can continue into the early hours of the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, defending champion Carlos Alcaraz defeated Jannick Siner in a five-set quarterfinal that lasted more than five hours and ended at 2:50 a.m., the latest finish in US Open history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no doubt that late matches are widely discussed after the 2022 US Open,&#8221; Allaster told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We considered the possibility of evening session matches starting an hour earlier, but that&#8217;s not really possible because it&#8217;s difficult for New Yorkers to get to the courts even at 7 in the evening. We also talked about an evening match, but we felt it wasn&#8217;t fair to the fans,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Too many late nights in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#tennis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But no change to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/usopen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#usopen<\/a> schedule this year<\/p>\n<p>This from tournament director Stacey Allaster: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9PXlAvvU8D\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9PXlAvvU8D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher Clarey \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 (@christophclarey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christophclarey\/status\/1692357327993655449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last week, world number one Iga \u0160viontek called for a better tournament program for the sake of tennis players&#8217; health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the realities of tennis is that we don&#8217;t have a definite beginning and end. We may have a short match and we may have a five-hour match. We are currently sticking to the two-match plan in the evening session, but we will continue to discuss the subject,&#8221; Stacey Allaster further stated.<\/p>\n<p>The US Open will be held from August 28 to September 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Open organizers are discussing the issue with late matches in the tournament, but director Stacey Allaster said the Grand Slam had no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":455444,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[4051],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[1891],"acf":{"announce":"Organizers are aware of the problem of late games, but are not willing to pull the matches earlier","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455418"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455418"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}