{"id":127025,"date":"2025-09-02T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/127025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:59:12","slug":"us-open-organisers-told-they-have-made-a-strange-scheduling-decision-involving-venus-williams-it-is-a-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/127025\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open organisers told they have made a strange scheduling decision involving Venus Williams, \u2018it is a shame\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year has been yet another thrilling iteration of the US Open, and we still have just under a week of action to go.<\/p>\n

However, there has also been plenty of controversy, perhaps fitting with the raucous, outlandish and supremely marketable nature of this event.<\/p>\n

Jelena Ostapenko\u2019s comments about Taylor Townsend<\/a> have dominated the headlines for all the wrong reasons, whilst Daniil Medvedev\u2019s aggressive reaction to his early exit<\/a> raised eyebrows too.<\/p>\n

And now, amongst all this turmoil, the scheduling has also been called into question by the three pundits of The Tennis Podcast.<\/p>\n

US Open schedule questioned<\/p>\n

Speaking about Venus Williams<\/a>\u2019 magical run in the ladies\u2019 doubles, it was Catherine Whitaker who noted the issues this may have caused.<\/p>\n

After all, in an effort to give the legendary 45-year-old the platform she deserves alongside Leylah Fernandez, having played on the Louis Armstrong Stadium earlier today, it may have unsettled the schedule for the singles matches.<\/p>\n

She began by noting: \u201cThat means, that schedule means the fact that they\u2019ve put the Venus Williams doubles on Armstrong means that a singles match has to be relegated to Grandstand, and the one they\u2019ve chosen is Marta Kostyuk against Karolina Muchova, which will be fantastic on Armstrong, but it is a shame and a little bit of a burn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matt Roberts then chimed in: \u201cYeah, they\u2019re being sort of singled out. I mean, I think if I had to pick a singles match tomorrow\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Whitaker interjected: \u201cIt\u2019s De Minaur Rieidi.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roberts then picked up where he left off: \u201cI think it\u2019s that one. I mean, potentially it\u2019s Musetti Munar. I think it\u2019s probably one of those two. I guess, you know, they want they want the two best of five on Armstrong is my assumption.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Law did add the silver lining for one of the singles players affected, concluding: \u201cI\u2019ll tell you what, Muchova will be pleased about it from a court playing perspective because she really enjoyed it the other day, I think against Noskova. That\u2019s the court she was on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Venus Williams has to take centre stage<\/p>\n

Realistically, the US Open schedulers cannot really be lambasted for prioritising Venus Williams.<\/p>\n

After all, despite the evergreen and ageless nature of the 45-year-old superstar, it\u2019s still not certain how many more times we will get to see her play on the professional circuit.<\/p>\n

\"VenusPhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

So, when she does decide to pick up the racket, and especially when she is enjoying such an unprecedented run in her home country, she must be rewarded with the top billing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an unfortunate situation for the singles stars, but they must understand that a player of her magnitude presides over most others.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, we could have her successor ready to step up, given Venus Williams recently pinpointed the similarities she shares with Fernandez<\/a>, her partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year has been yet another thrilling iteration of the US Open, and we still have just under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[61186,57400,35852,99,428,11883,9518],"class_list":{"0":"post-127025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-catherine-whitaker","9":"tag-david-law","10":"tag-matt-roberts","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-us-open","14":"tag-venus-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}