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Dear tennis: Figure it out.
We’re not watching a best-of-5 match that starts at 10 pm ET.
Even when it’s THE match we all want to watch.
What a wasted opportunity.
When fans heard about the $800 million renovation of Arthur Ashe Stadium, the marquee venue at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, some hoped the changes might mean higher capacity and lower prices. But come July, less than a month before the official start of the Open, normie tennis fanatics weren’t finding the deals they expected at the updated Ashe. In fact, by the time the renovation project is completed next year, the world’s largest tennis stadium will have no added capacity.
While Kirsten Corio, the chief commercial officer of the U.S. Tennis Association, says that the renovation merely “takes a few thousand seats from upstairs and moves them downstairs,” it would be clearer to say that the stadium is shifting as much capacity as it can closer to the court, where seats are more expensive, writes Ben Ryder Howe.
In remaking Ashe, the USTA is doing the same thing as every branch of the hospitality industry by catering to those for whom money is no object with the most luxurious, most exclusive, most over-the-top experiences imaginable, writes Howe. At the Open, there has been a dramatic expansion of bundles with expensive hospitality options. This year’s priciest offerings, which range as high as $85,000, include a gifting suite, locker-room access and private hitting clinics with tennis royalty on practice courts. Next year, a subterranean, London-social-club-style complex of lounges called the Bunker Suites is expected to open. During the tournament, access to the space, which is taking over a catacomb once used by players for warmups, has been floated at $120,000 per person.
Howe reports on the members’ clubification of the new Arthur Ashe: https://t.co/uyWDsPfDvQ
on a call with the new team. nobody said "we'll give folks a few minutes to trickle in" and the guy presenting didn’t even ask "can everyone see my screen?"