Speculation on the Men's Calendar for the Next Foreseeable Future

Which tournaments do you think have the greatest chance of being cancelled/postponed?

  • Miami

    Votes: 8 72.7%
  • Marrakesh

    Votes: 3 27.3%
  • Houston

    Votes: 7 63.6%
  • Monte Carlo

    Votes: 8 72.7%
  • Barcelona

    Votes: 5 45.5%
  • Hungary Open

    Votes: 3 27.3%
  • Estoril

    Votes: 3 27.3%
  • Munich

    Votes: 3 27.3%
  • Madrid

    Votes: 4 36.4%
  • Rome

    Votes: 10 90.9%
  • Roland Garros

    Votes: 5 45.5%
  • Wimbledon

    Votes: 4 36.4%
  • Tokyo Olympic Games

    Votes: 6 54.5%
  • US Open

    Votes: 1 9.1%
  • Davis Cup in July

    Votes: 2 18.2%

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After RG shamelessly unilaterally postponing the dates of RG, more chaos naturally ensues. The Italian Open announces that they are postponing their tourney to to the week before RG.

But, the Italian Open knows that they cannot be as arrogant as RG. Hence, they explain saying that they cannot agree to cancelling their event outright this year. If their current plan is not palatable to others, they are willing to play some other week and even on some other surface as long as they are given a slot in this year's schedule. If not, they threaten to hold it the week before RG.
 

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After RG shamelessly unilaterally postponing the dates of RG, more chaos naturally ensues. The Italian Open announces that they are postponing their tourney to to the week before RG.

But, the Italian Open knows that they cannot be as arrogant as RG. Hence, they explain saying that they cannot agree to cancelling their event outright this year. If their current plan is not palatable to others, they are willing to play some other week and even on some other surface as long as they are given a slot in this year's schedule. If not, they threaten to hold it the week before RG.

I read that a couple of days ago,in the words of John Mac ............they can't be serious.I went to their website and they are refunding ticket holders.,I cannot see their plan working at all,it's not workable at all.
 

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After RG shamelessly unilaterally postponing the dates of RG, more chaos naturally ensues. The Italian Open announces that they are postponing their tourney to to the week before RG.

But, the Italian Open knows that they cannot be as arrogant as RG. Hence, they explain saying that they cannot agree to cancelling their event outright this year. If their current plan is not palatable to others, they are willing to play some other week and even on some other surface as long as they are given a slot in this year's schedule. If not, they threaten to hold it the week before RG.

The Italian is as much a mainstay as the French! They have been grandfathered into any schedule and retain their Masters status! :yawningface:
 

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Now that Olympics is postponed, as a self-appointed Tennis Commissioner, I move RG to the two weeks in which Olympics was supposed to be held. However, I rule that RG be played on hard courts, to ensure that players are not subjected to abrupt surface changes.
 

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Now that Olympics is postponed, as a self-appointed Tennis Commissioner, I move RG to the two weeks in which Olympics was supposed to be held. However, I rule that RG be played on hard courts, to ensure that players are not subjected to abrupt surface changes.
Wouldn't you just like that? Don't you think that Wimbledon will likely slot in there, given that there may be no tennis before that? Kidding aside, what if we're able to play the grass season? Could we just slide in the last of the clay season before the USO, maybe pushing the USO back a bit? It all depends on how things go, of course, but it could be one way to deal with it.
 
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The situation in London is bleak,according to the phone and emails I am receiving from my daughter,who can work from home,thank goodness,it would not surprise me if the grass season is also suspended.I also read today even the USO is looking for alternative dates., if need be.
 
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Now that Olympics is postponed, as a self-appointed Tennis Commissioner, I move RG to the two weeks in which Olympics was supposed to be held. However, I rule that RG be played on hard courts, to ensure that players are not subjected to abrupt surface changes.

Stranger things have happened! Years gone by I'm sure, due to inclement weather, players were sent to local indoor clubs to complete early round matches; even a YEC for the women in the 80's! Someone in the French Federation could author a surface change and it would still be called/considered "The French Open!" I guess an asterisk would be attached to it! :face-with-hand-over-mouth:
 
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The AELTC is continuing a detailed evaluation of all scenarios for The Championships 2020,including postponement and cancellation,as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.A decision will be made next week.
wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/art...
 

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Hopefully we get tennis back at some point this summer. I was thinking about where the FO was rescheduled. What if they put it where the USO is, and the USO goes later? Weather is not great in NYC late August/early Sept...hot, humid and it's smack in the middle of hurricane season. Late Sept. is very nice in NYC, on the other hand.
 

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Perhaps, they may be forced to start Tennis from IW of 2021. It will seem like a seamless transition.

Sounds doable to me! You know it ain't happening! As soon as they can, play will begin! Trump wants things back to normal by Easter by the sheer force of his will; medicine be damned! The Olympics will have to be displaced by a yr.! Hard to believe they'll try running majors back to back in Sept. like that! :face-with-hand-over-mouth:
 
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Perhaps, they may be forced to start Tennis from IW of 2021. It will seem like a seamless transition.
Seems like suddenly there is a big call for Rafa's plan for 2-year rankings. (I'm not making this up.) I hope we have tennis before next March.
 
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Perhaps, they may be forced to start Tennis from IW of 2021. It will seem like a seamless transition.

Best of it: all frozen till Ozzy 2021. In this case Nole was denied record "No.1 per weeks" but will be in place to defend No.1 spot and start from zero. In this case, lets rotate all year, freeze points till last match played and start with what was canceled. All other will be a mess. I don't see any better option with canceling all 2020.
 

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Guys, when we are on the other side of the curve, and people start figuring out that activities can resume, they will resume, period. Players want to play, viewers want to view, tournaments want to happen. Rankings and all other secondary aspects will simply have to adapt.

What will happen to the rankings, IMO, is to extend it in a way that it always comprises a full year of actual play, including the freeze. Then, when we are one year away from the freeze, the transitions is seamless. People will have a hard time understanding it, but they don't understand it already, so nothing changes.
 

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They should just cancel the whole indoor season and put the clay season there.
 

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if RG would have waited a week or more longer they could have opted for the two weeks of the July 24 timeslot that was being occupied by the Japan Olympics.

Lol So why do you think the Olympics cancelled their event? It’s because in July the crisis probably won’t be over. September is not a guarantee, but it’s a better bet.