Anonymous wrote:Was looking at the draw. I've never seen it where in a one-week tournament, the women don't play Wednesday at all. And their final is on Sunday and the men are on Saturday. We got Wednesday tickets and was hoping to catch some of the female players with byes (seems like no bye last year), but now it looks like no women are playing Wednesday at all.
I am Googling this right?
Typically in combined matches, Women's events start a day earlier and are usually a day ahead. There is often a built in "extra day" somewhere in the schedule where they may not be matches scheduled. This helps if there are weather issues (either extreme heat or rain) that will curtail play on a day. Then they have the extra day to help make up the scheduled matches and still keep on track to end on time. Every now and then, you end up with the tournament that was scheduled to end of Saturday that ends on Sunday or the terrible situation where a tournament is scheduled to end on Sunday, but has to have a Monday final.
Also, for the person looking for the schedule, here is today's
http://www.protennislive.com/posting/2023/418/op.pdf