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Venus, Jelena delayed for TV
September 04, 2007 THE US Tennis Association has meddled with the competition
schedule to gain increased television ratings, delaying the US Open
quarter-final between Venus Williams and Jelena Jankovic to Thursday (AEST).
Wimbledon champion Williams, the No.12 seed, and Jankovic, the No.3 seed from
Serbia, had been scheduled to play tomiorrow (AEST), when Serena Williams,
the No.8 seed, and world No.1 Justine Henin meet in the other quarter-final
from their section of the draw.
Australian Open champion Serena and French Open champion Henin will still
play tomorrow, as planned, but Jankovic and Venus will play a day later,
giving the winner one less rest day than their foe in the semi-finals on
Saturday (AEST).
Tournament officials said that Jankovic and Williams had both approved the
plan, which will put their match, at night on Arthur Ashe stadium, 24 hours
after the Serena-Henin showdown.
"We would never have made this decision without talking to the players
first," tournament spokesman Chris Widmaier said.
"Both of the players not only liked it, they encouraged it.
"I don't know if this has been done before. We're checking to see if it is
unprecedented."
Neither Henin nor Serena were consulted about the move, which gives their
rivals an extra day to prepare for each other, and a less hectic Wednesday
that now offers a better chance to study their potential rivals in action.
"They were not talked to," Widmaier said.
"We talked to the players who would be getting less rest."
The switch is likely to see Jankovic play in front of a jam-packed crowd
cheering for six-time grand slam winner Williams, and not a lesser Wednesday
afternoon audience, playing at a time when many potential spectators are
working.
"We felt the Venus Williams-Jelena Jankovic match is more of a marquee
match-up," Widmaier said.
"We thought this was a good decision for the sport."
The decision was certanly good for the US television network broadcasting the
tournament, which was faced with a Thursday (AEST) devoid of women's star
power after No.2 seed Maria Sharapova was eliminated.
The decision means that No.4 seed Svetlana Kuznetsova from Russia will play
unseeded Hungarian teen Agnes Szavay, and No.6 seed Anna Chakvetadze from
Russia play No.18 seed Shahar Peer from Israel early on Thursday (AEST).
Asked if the switch would have been made had a player more attractive to US
TV audiences been playing on the opposite half of the draw, Widmaier said:
"That's a good question. I can only talk about the conditions presented to
us."
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