[SCCues]

The final day of the 2010 US Open was not as enjoyable as the previous days due to using a neutral racker and letting the players challenge each rack.

The time spent trying to get the rack right was brutal for the players and the spectators. I think the players should have racked for themselves like they did for the whole tournament until the last few matches. I don't know whose idea it was to use a neutral racker the last day, but if they were using a neutral racker the players shouldn't have been allowed to come up and challenge every rack which caused the racker to have to start over and over trying to get an acceptable rack for the players. I was present watching and of all the US Opens i've been to this was the first time i've seen so much time wasted racking the balls.

The neutral racker would rack the balls and let the player inspect every possible crack and the re-racking began over and over. It was so bad that Accu-stats started stopping the video between games and waiting for the balls to be acceptably racked before they turned the video cameras back on. I hope that they come up with something different next year because taking that much time to rack the balls takes a lot away from the play and enjoying the matches.......

James

[Tom In Cincy]

The players agreed to this for Saturday's matches.