I've done consulting for Tennis Canada. I can assure you, Rogers Cup Montreal isnt a smooth operation, they basically run in crisis mode during the whole event and don't make any improvements year to year. Two years ago I remember on more than one occasion there being no food/drinks in the players locker rooms or for media workers, the electronic tickets scanners kept failing, power outages in various areas on site, Internet constantly going down (cant have clients pay at concessions, ticket stands and restaurants), running out of fries and bottled water on DAY ONE, IT guys are lazy bums that never answer phone or radio calls and never show up, fix anything, or aknowledge any kind of responsibility, and they use volunteers as slave to carry around kegs, cases of water/juice/soft drinks/beer and wine around the entire site EACH year. The job is so rough 90% of them quit after their first day and they are forced to scramble to hire anybody during the event, which leads to piss poor service and various areas running out of supplies constantly. Every single year they repeat the same shitty system instead of training/hiring a proper team before the event... They dont want to pay for proper equipment or staff but it costs them more in lost revenue as a consequence. Bunch of bafoons if you ask me.
But they must be doing something right if you guys didn't notice anything...
IMO yesterday they should have postponed the game. But they had 11K people on site and chose to make Quebec's star tennis player play a match in conditions so piss poor that any third world country would have done a better job hosting. The decision to proceed with the match was a logistic and financial one, when it should have been for the sport, the players and spectators.