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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