Hiya everyone this is some info that might answer your curiosity regarding the rain in US open but as the interview is so long i can't put all of them here. So i just put some relevant thing here but i would suggest to read the full interview to get the full picture of the whole thing. To see the full interview click here.
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Information Regarding The Rain Delay.
Interview of The US Open Organiser.
ARLEN KANTARIAN, Chief Executive Professional Tennis USTA;
JIM CURLEY, US Open Tournament Director;
BRIAN EARLEY, US Open Tournament Referee;
DAVID NEWMAN Managing Director, Marketing Communications USTA;
[...]
More than one reporter has asked, "Would we play players every day, as opposed to every other day," and the answer is yes. The players understand that. We have an excellent, excellent group of players. They are willing to play when and where we ask. I mean, it is just a really, really good group of people who try to stay in touch with the referee's office, try to stay in touch with the tournament director.
If we give them good information, we get that back in spades from them. They become more and more willing to play in a little bit different place, to play a little bit different time, to stay here as late as they have to, to hang around all day.
If we do it from the referee's office, a good job of communicating to them, the status of where they are and where we are with getting these matches played, we really get good cooperation from them.
So, you know, congratulations to them. They've just been a great group under very, very trying circumstances.
[...]
Q. Is it possible to start the matches earlier? Could you start matches at 9 or 10 in the morning?
BRIAN EARLEY: That really doesn't buy us anything. That really doesn't change anything. If you think about it, if somebody's in three events, you're talking about first, third and fifth, we have those available.
Typically, if we are accommodating to a doubles match, remember we have enough courts to spread out to play. It's not, again, a question of length of day. Length of day we have because of the lights. I don't foresee us, you know -- in the time that I've been here, which is 21 years, we have never started, that I remember, before 11 o'clock for reasons that we were behind in the schedule.
I know we have started earlier than that for other reasons, but not for reasons that we were behind in the schedule.
[...]
Q. Arlen or Brian, what would be the drop-dead date by which you can't complete the tournament on Sunday and you really have to look at extending it?
ARLEN KANTARIAN: I'm not sure we know that today. Brian, do you want to take a shot?
BRIAN EARLEY: The rule of thumb is that you play a singles match, the most you can play is one singles match in a day - that doesn't mean that we wouldn't, you know, as pieces of matches are played. We've played pieces of matches and then gone on to play a second singles match in a day.
Again, you have to, you know, the rule of thumb is one thing; and then what really happens is another.
I don't really think we can go there yet.
[...]
Q. Would you consider reducing best-of-five to best-of-three?
ARLEN KANTARIAN: Brian, want to discuss that? Are you talking about best-of-five, best-of-three in the men's singles?
BRIAN EARLEY: As you know, it has been done often in the men's doubles in other Grand Slams. We no longer play best-of-five. When we did, we played best-of-three on several occasions when we got backed up.
We haven't even gone there. We haven't even talked about it. I feel that a Grand Slam men's singles title deserves best-of-five sets all the way through. That would only be -- I'm only one part of the equation. That is the subject that we, hopefully, won't have to broach.
I'm just giving you my kind of candid...
ARLEN KANTARIAN: I think that's a very strong Grand Slam view throughout as well.
[...]
Q. I know you said you have completed a partial match and then go on to play a whole match in the same day. Would you consider playing two full matches in the same day, for particularly the men who would be playing best-of-five?
BRIAN EARLEY: Never gone there.
ARLEN KANTARIAN: Never say never.
BRIAN EARLEY: I never say never. Hard for me to imagine that, but then again I've never been in this situation, so...
[...]
Q. Brian, last night Pierce and Myskina didn't start until quarter past 11. You had so many people tied up drying the court. Why do you not cover the court? Surely that would make it quicker, you could make better use of the time.
BRIAN EARLEY: Was that something Danny was going to answer?
ARLEN KANTARIAN: We have our head of our facilities here, Danny Zausner. I can tell you that between Brian and Danny and myself, we've addressed this on several occasions. We will continue to address it. I think the history of the event has been the system that's in place now in addition to some, I guess, airblowers that we have recently provided as well.
The question of tarp, the question of the tented type of tarp used at Wimbledon, has come up. Brian or Jim, I don't know if you want to address that, or Danny?
DANNY ZAUSNER: There are some issues with that court as far as our surface. It's definitely smaller than other Grand Slams. We are and will continue to investigate it. The reality is we've had more rain in the last two years than the last 10 years combined. It's something that's new to us. It's not being ignored, I'll assure you that.
ARLEN KANTARIAN: I am told that there could potentially be a three- to four-minute pickup in terms of time had we had tarps. I think the conclusion at least at this point, that the referee and others have come to, is does that three to four minutes, if in fact that is the time savings, warrant the type of tarp on the sidelines of the court or not.
I think that's the question.
To the degree it can help us save more time than three to four minutes, I think we would be more serious about investigating that.
[...]
~Partial interview only, taken from official US OPEN website~
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Information Regarding The Rain Delay.
Interview of The US Open Organiser.
ARLEN KANTARIAN, Chief Executive Professional Tennis USTA;
JIM CURLEY, US Open Tournament Director;
BRIAN EARLEY, US Open Tournament Referee;
DAVID NEWMAN Managing Director, Marketing Communications USTA;
[...]
More than one reporter has asked, "Would we play players every day, as opposed to every other day," and the answer is yes. The players understand that. We have an excellent, excellent group of players. They are willing to play when and where we ask. I mean, it is just a really, really good group of people who try to stay in touch with the referee's office, try to stay in touch with the tournament director.
If we give them good information, we get that back in spades from them. They become more and more willing to play in a little bit different place, to play a little bit different time, to stay here as late as they have to, to hang around all day.
If we do it from the referee's office, a good job of communicating to them, the status of where they are and where we are with getting these matches played, we really get good cooperation from them.
So, you know, congratulations to them. They've just been a great group under very, very trying circumstances.
[...]
Q. Is it possible to start the matches earlier? Could you start matches at 9 or 10 in the morning?
BRIAN EARLEY: That really doesn't buy us anything. That really doesn't change anything. If you think about it, if somebody's in three events, you're talking about first, third and fifth, we have those available.
Typically, if we are accommodating to a doubles match, remember we have enough courts to spread out to play. It's not, again, a question of length of day. Length of day we have because of the lights. I don't foresee us, you know -- in the time that I've been here, which is 21 years, we have never started, that I remember, before 11 o'clock for reasons that we were behind in the schedule.
I know we have started earlier than that for other reasons, but not for reasons that we were behind in the schedule.
[...]
Q. Arlen or Brian, what would be the drop-dead date by which you can't complete the tournament on Sunday and you really have to look at extending it?
ARLEN KANTARIAN: I'm not sure we know that today. Brian, do you want to take a shot?
BRIAN EARLEY: The rule of thumb is that you play a singles match, the most you can play is one singles match in a day - that doesn't mean that we wouldn't, you know, as pieces of matches are played. We've played pieces of matches and then gone on to play a second singles match in a day.
Again, you have to, you know, the rule of thumb is one thing; and then what really happens is another.
I don't really think we can go there yet.
[...]
Q. Would you consider reducing best-of-five to best-of-three?
ARLEN KANTARIAN: Brian, want to discuss that? Are you talking about best-of-five, best-of-three in the men's singles?
BRIAN EARLEY: As you know, it has been done often in the men's doubles in other Grand Slams. We no longer play best-of-five. When we did, we played best-of-three on several occasions when we got backed up.
We haven't even gone there. We haven't even talked about it. I feel that a Grand Slam men's singles title deserves best-of-five sets all the way through. That would only be -- I'm only one part of the equation. That is the subject that we, hopefully, won't have to broach.
I'm just giving you my kind of candid...
ARLEN KANTARIAN: I think that's a very strong Grand Slam view throughout as well.
[...]
Q. I know you said you have completed a partial match and then go on to play a whole match in the same day. Would you consider playing two full matches in the same day, for particularly the men who would be playing best-of-five?
BRIAN EARLEY: Never gone there.
ARLEN KANTARIAN: Never say never.
BRIAN EARLEY: I never say never. Hard for me to imagine that, but then again I've never been in this situation, so...
[...]
Q. Brian, last night Pierce and Myskina didn't start until quarter past 11. You had so many people tied up drying the court. Why do you not cover the court? Surely that would make it quicker, you could make better use of the time.
BRIAN EARLEY: Was that something Danny was going to answer?
ARLEN KANTARIAN: We have our head of our facilities here, Danny Zausner. I can tell you that between Brian and Danny and myself, we've addressed this on several occasions. We will continue to address it. I think the history of the event has been the system that's in place now in addition to some, I guess, airblowers that we have recently provided as well.
The question of tarp, the question of the tented type of tarp used at Wimbledon, has come up. Brian or Jim, I don't know if you want to address that, or Danny?
DANNY ZAUSNER: There are some issues with that court as far as our surface. It's definitely smaller than other Grand Slams. We are and will continue to investigate it. The reality is we've had more rain in the last two years than the last 10 years combined. It's something that's new to us. It's not being ignored, I'll assure you that.
ARLEN KANTARIAN: I am told that there could potentially be a three- to four-minute pickup in terms of time had we had tarps. I think the conclusion at least at this point, that the referee and others have come to, is does that three to four minutes, if in fact that is the time savings, warrant the type of tarp on the sidelines of the court or not.
I think that's the question.
To the degree it can help us save more time than three to four minutes, I think we would be more serious about investigating that.
[...]
~Partial interview only, taken from official US OPEN website~
