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Despite the coronavirus pandemic, two more Grand Slam tennis tournaments are still scheduled to be played in 2020: the United States Open and the French Open.
But only the French Open intends to have spectators. Bernard Giudicelli, the president of the French Tennis Federation, said Thursday that the tournament could accommodate as many as 20,000 fans on site per day if the public health situation in France did not deteriorate.
The French Open plans to operate at “50 to 60 percent” of its usual capacity, Giudicelli said.
“This will allow us to respect the limits that we have agreed on with the French authorities,” he said in a videoconference with reporters.