NEW YORK (AP) A drone crash during a U.S. Open match has tennis officials thinking about whether they can do more to safeguard the sprawling National Tennis Center from such hazards.
U.S. Tennis Association spokesman Chris Widmaier says the organization is looking at the issue after an unmanned aircraft plummeted into empty seats during a women's singles match Thursday night. No one was injured.
Police say a high school science teacher who had been flying the drone from a nearby park was arrested Friday on reckless endangerment and other charges.
Widmaier says drones haven't been a problem before at the Open. But security officials have had the devices on their list of concerns as they work to protect the nearly 50-acre complex.
It's not yet clear what steps they might take.
