I wrote a few days ago about the potential rain in the Phoenix area, and it appears the forecast is bad enough that the USTA is going to proactively start the event using an alternate shorter format, I’m guessing short sets starting each set at 2-2, and play no-ad.
The forecast for Friday and Saturday calls for thunderstorms and a chance of flash flooding, so hopefully with the short format matches can get played relatively on schedule and there will be minimal delays.
I think it is the right move by the USTA to do this proactively and get as ahead of it as possible as trying to fit matches in using an even shorter format later would be worse.
I’m guessing both Surprise and Scottsdale will go to this format which means the 18 & Over 2.5, 3.5, and 5.0 events will be affected. The 4.0 events are in San Diego and the forecast appears near perfect there.