With a biosecure hotel and a reshuffled calendar, tennis hopes to rescue two Grand Slam tournaments in the weirdest season in history
If all goes according to plan, tennis should stir back to life in mid-August within the groovy confines of an airport hotel that looks like the set of Mad Men.
The idea is to put the world’s top players in a bubble—also known as the TWA Hotel at New York’s Kennedy Airport—that will serve as their base for two tournaments including the U.S. Open. They’ll encounter no fans or media, and they will exit the bubble only once they are eliminated. Should they feel adventurous, they can follow it by jetting off to Paris for the rescheduled...
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