Will the 2020 French Open Be More Competitive than the U.S. Open?

SI's Jon Wertheim shares the latest on this year's French Open

The U.S. Open is still on the schedule for the end of August, but travel still poses an issue for tennis' larger international stars. However, the French Open is easier to travel to for some of tennis' most competitive players. SI's Jon Wertheim provides his updates on the 2020 French Open.

Robin Lundberg: As tennis tries to get back on track, what's the status of the French Open? For more on that, I'm joined by our senior writer, Jon Wertheim. Jon, what's the latest?

Jon Wertheim: Yeah, it's a good question because we've been so much attention paid to the U.S. Open. Will there be a 2020 U.S. Open? What will it look like? Who will play? And there hasn't been a whole lot of chatter about the French Open. But I think the French Open right now has a lot going for it. One of them is just the fact that it is in Western Europe where most of the top players reside. It is much easier for Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic to get to Paris than it is to New York. I have not heard that there will be this restricted on a membrane. Remember, if the U.S. Open, we call it a bubble, a membrane, that players will only be able to have one other person in their traveling party. That is a dramatic decrease for a lot of the top players. And that's causing some players, Novak Djokovic talking about this, is causing some players to rethink playing. The French Open doesn't seem to have that. It also seems as though the players are not going to be restricted to the same hotel. So the French Open, which is on the books for late September, essentially the first two weeks of October. I think that is more likely to happen and happen successfully than the U.S. Open right now.