US Tennis Open
 

Going to day session on lst day of tournament. How long is the day session? What time do you have to leave? Is the traffice really bad driving or leaving on this first day.
thanks.

The traffic is usually bad every day. You also need to check the Mets schedule to see if they are in town too - which would make it even worse - depending on game time.

I believe the day matches start at 11. The evening matches start at 7. So, you have to leave before the latter starts. Naturally, you'll meet some traffic and maybe a slowdown or two, but we've never encountered the really horrendous variety....but that doesn't mean that you won't!

i don't know that you actually have to leave the grounds at any time. I think that you just can't get into the stadium once the daytime matches end there. If there are still matches going on in the outer courts, you can stay until they're over.

The day session depends on how long the matches last. You don't have to leave by any particular time as far as I know. Yes, traffic is bad. If you're coming from Manhattan, I'd use public transport.

I should have given more details. The evening doesn't have all the matches on the side courts that are available during the day. You are required to leave the Arthur Ashe Stadium prior to the evening's matches. So, unless you have tickets for the evening matches in Ashe, there's really very little reason to hang around!

The only thing I'd add is that you might want to consider taking the subway, even if you are coming from NJ. The 7 train stops at the stadium, and then it's a relatively short walk over.

Doug's right. The 7 train stops right near the tennis center and runs frequently -- it runs through a densely populated area of Queens and goes to both Grand Central Station and Times Square, the two most heavily trafficked stations in the subway, so the trains pretty much roll in one after another.

Plus, driving in Queens is a mess if you don't know where you're going. That's because 80% of the streets are numbered, but not with the sequential logic of Manhattan or the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn. In Queens, the streets are numbered but labeled differently -- seems like there's 68th Street, 68th Avenue, 68th Court, 68th Boulevard, 68th Road, 68th Drive, 68th Place . . .