$65 Million and Counting: How the US Open Prize Money Became a Global Economic Parable
The United States Open—once a quaint tennis tournament where polite applause and strawberries-and-cream nostalgia collided—has metamorphosed into a hard-court casino where the house always wins and the chips are denominated in human cartilage. This year, the purse swelled to a record-smashing $65 million, a figure that, if converted to Sri Lankan rupees, could probably bail…