USTA

Widmaier said Tuesday that a review of the USTA’s safeguarding policies and procedures is ongoing.

Davenport will also take on a role in player development for the USTA.

Sometimes they’re invited by the USTA, which uses an outside firm to help contact publicists, managers and agents and will provide rides to and from the tournament.

But he noted that while he enforces a strict no-smoking policy inside the USTA’s Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the park is “outside my jurisdiction.”

“I think the presentation of the sport and equal prize money being secured 50 years ago has come a long way as to why women in tennis have achieved what they’ve achieved,” said Lew Sherr, the executive director of the USTA.