The schedule on the two biggest stadiums led to some short-lived tennis on Tuesday. Play started on Arthur Ashe at 11:30 a.m., so by 2:30 p.m., the stadium was facing four and a half hours of dead air before the night session at 7 p.m. <\/p>\n
Louis Armstrong Stadium faced a similar issue, and with two show courts with a combined capacity of over 38,000 empty, all those day session tickets spilled out onto the grounds in search of tennis.<\/p>\n
So fans packed onto stairwells, gangways and open areas, searching for a glimpse of the action. Courts 4, 5, and 6, which sit side by side with gangways between 4 and 5 and 5 and 6, became the place to be, along with Tsitsipas\u2019 assignment on 7. <\/p>\n
Lines snaked around every outside court, contrasting sharply with the ones only in use for practice, sparsely and quietly populated with players honing their skills for the bigger stages. <\/p>\n
Around them, the Billie Jean King Tennis Center was abuzz, while its two grandest arenas lay silent. Could we see more of the same today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The schedule on the two biggest stadiums led to some short-lived tennis on Tuesday. Play started on Arthur…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-101032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}