US Open plan in works, including group flights, Covid tests, no spectators

All sanctioned competition has been suspended by the ATP, WTA and International Tennis Federation since March and is on hold until late July

Charter flights to ferry US Open tennis players and limited entourages from Europe, South America and the Middle East to New York.

Negative Covid-19 tests before traveling. Centralised housing. Daily temperature checks.

No spectators. Fewer on-court officials. No locker-room access on practice days.

All are among the scenarios being considered for the 2020 US Open -- if it is held at all amid the coronavirus pandemic -- and described to The Associated Press by a high-ranking official at the Grand Slam tournament.

"All of this is still fluid," Stacey Allaster, the US Tennis Association's chief executive for professional tennis, said