US Open: Nachtschichten erhitzen die Gemüter

If the Chinese in Zheng Qinwen play perfect power at 2.15 am today for the späteste Damen-Spiel at the US Open, they still lost a few hundred fans in the stands. Years of debating about tennis and playing a relaxing night.

The organizers in New York stubbornly decided to end the Nachtspiele. Stattdessen started with the German Alexander Zverev during the Drittrundenspiel against Tomas Martin Etcheverry from Argentina after half three – the swimming test ends with the US-Open-Geschichte. Ex-Players and Die Spielergewerkschaft schlagen Alarm.

“The roots in tennis are total chaos,” joked the young woman who hit Brite Andy Murray. “It is as amateurish as a game two, three, four hours ago.” Seine Tirade completed the new number of the world with an endorsement and the professional organization and the Grand Slam Veranstalter: “Clear that.”

New era politics

In those years, the US Open organizers are organizing a new Zeitpolitik. The game starts at 23:15 and has not yet started, while the Platz has gone through the previous Match block, it can be moved to another court.

“I think it’s a good start,” says US star Coco Gauff, who had criticized the late games in the sales figures: “I definitely think it’s not right and it’s not fair to those who have to play so late, because it ruins their schedule.”

The new arrangement in New York only started from the beginning – for example, the Drittrundenspiel of Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka did not start until after the Mitternacht at 0.07 am. If you go to the Weltranglistenzweiten, you will probably end up in a smaller arena at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Criticism of the production

„These Entscheidungen müssen früher fallen, when Platze were gewechselt. I’ll have more fun, because it’s fun,” said Romain Rosenberg from the Spielergewerkschaft PTPA in New York.

After the PTPA match, the Grand Slams match in 2018 is over. If you look at the truth, it is a game that is played with a game of 25 percent higher. “The health of the players must return more in focus”, for Rosenberg. “It is no wonder that the games at Turnieren are a success. Those physical and mental skills are real.”

Don’t worry, tomorrow is the day

When the pros play for two hours in New York, they are not able to play after the treatment, the meditation and the drive to the hotel. But it is not später. During the French Open a Fünf-Satz-Match of Novak Djokovic started until 3.07 Uhr.

The Grand Slam record holds Lleyton Hewitt and Marcos Baghdatis against Sieg Hewitts at the 2008 Australian Open until 4.34 hours. The last game of tennis history is contested by Zverev until 4.55 hours in Acapulco (Mexico).

“Die Stadt, die niemals schläft”

The representatives of the US Open require that the New Yorker work together in the evening in Queens in the east of the country. Then the Night Session started with two Partien – the Turniers started neither on two Plätzen. It is worth playing the US Open for the competition – unlike the French Open.

“It’s part of the journey. It’s one of our fans,” said Lew Sherr, a representative of the American tennis associations – and spoke about the Werbespruch New Yorks: ‘It’s the city, the nobody else is lucky.’