US Open marches ahead during pandemic. Photo by US Tennis Twitter.
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Sports and COVID-19: US Open’s Daniel Zausner On Staging World-Class Sports Event During Pandemic

Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

Novak Djokovic, a 17-time Grand Slam winner, won a spectacular point through his world-class defensive skills against Kyle Edmund Wednesday and screamed to an imaginary crowd at the National Tennis Center in Flushing, Queens.

That’s life in sports these days. No fans during a COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed the lives of 183,000 Americans.

But big-time sports events like the 2020 U.S. Open march on thanks to sports-business executives like Daniel Zausner, chief operating officer of the National Tennis Center, where the Open was in the second round Tuesday.

LVSportsBiz.com had a live stream chat with Zausner Wednesday afternoon about staging the U.S. Open during a pandemic and also during a time when racial justice issues have entered the sports world. Zausner discussed the logistics of making this event happen.

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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.

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