Towel THAT!

Mother Nature took a supersoaker to the US Open this week.
Nearly every tennis match was washed out Monday through Wednesday. By
Thursday, tournament officials were racing to see if enough play could
be squeezed between the raindrops to keep the tournament from running
past Sunday. The last time that happened was 1987.

Among reporters and fans, some grow restless. Didn’t the Mets go ahead
and play baseball at Shea Stadium right next door? Couldn’t the courts
be covered with tented tarps the way the chaps at ever-wet Wimbledon
do it? And isn’t there something more high-tech to dry the courts than
an army of kneeling grounds crew playing wipeout with towels?

from
the Christian Science Monitor