Ben Solomon for The New York Times
A difficult decision became more daunting on Wednesday as American tennis officials intent on staging the United States Open continued to run into stiff resistance from international players.
“We have less than a week to go, so we need to finally finalize what we will do,” said Patrick Galbraith, the president of the United States Tennis Association, as he presented the case for holding this year’s Open to more than 400 players and coaches on a videoconference call with the ATP, the men’s tour.
The tennis tours have been shut down since mid-March because of the coronavirus pandemic, and two Grand Slam events have been affected.