Overview
- Rain swept Flushing Meadows on Sunday night, stopping play on every uncovered outer court and pushing several unfinished first-round matches into the next day.
- A fresh round of showers on Monday again suspended outer-court play but many matches resumed after roughly an hour, which helped organizers avoid another overnight backlog.
- Tournament officials typically estimate a 40-to-60-minute restart after storms, yet prolonged wet conditions, tarping and court-drying often make actual delays longer and harder to predict.
- Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong kept marquee matches moving by using their retractable roofs, although Armstrong experienced a mechanical roof-sensor delay that slowed its closure and court-drying.
- Forecasts show a high chance of more thunderstorms through Tuesday, which keeps the schedule fluid and raises short-term recovery and fairness concerns for lower-court players who face compressed rest windows.