When the Western & Southern Open begins in the northeasterly location of Queens on Saturday, it will be the first part of the most significant tennis doubleheader since the 2012 Wimbledon tournament and the Olympic tennis competition were played on the same well-tended grass courts of the All England Club. But that doubleheader was a long-planned occasion, more than seven years in the making. The result was moving the Western & Southern Open — long held in Mason, Ohio — to Queens for this year — and hopefully only this year. It will be followed, after a quick two-day break, by the United States Open, scheduled to begin on Aug. 31. Billie Jean King National Tennis Center but will not use all of the same courts, which is partly an attempt to preserve separate identities.

Source: New York Times August 21, 2020 09:00 UTC