The forecast for Friday and Saturday calls for thunderstorms and a chance of flash flooding, so hopefully with the short format matches can get played relatively on schedule and there will be minimal delays.
I think it is the right move by the USTA to do this proactively and get as ahead of it as possible as trying to fit matches in using an even shorter format later would be worse.
I'm guessing both Surprise and Scottsdale will go to this format which means the 18 & Over 2.5, 3.5, and 5.0 events will be affected. The 4.0 events are in San Diego and the forecast appears near perfect there.
We are here now - they went to fast 4 today. It’s terrible. The rain delayed the started for 2 hours then it briefly rained for 5 minutes at 12 but that’s it. They need a meteorologist on staff bc this is BS.
ReplyDeleteWith the forecast for more rain tomorrow, they were being cautious and wanting to make sure they didn't get behind today and have to do something more disruptive yesterday. But I can understand the frustration in hindsight if the delays were minimal today and would have allowed for normal format.
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