The 2020 U.S. Open will feature the stars of the sport, most of them anyway. We can safely predict that there will be familiar trappings: upsets and breakthroughs and steely veterans and taut five-setters. There will be controversies, rain delays on the outer courts and, the weekend after Labor Day, two champions will heft trophies and seven-figure checks.
Otherwise…the 2020 U.S. Open will be thoroughly unrecognizable from any tournament ever played, past, present and—with any luck—future. The players are marooned on Long Island, forbidden from breaching the “bubble” under penalty of expulsion. There will be little working media, volunteers and entourage members.