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How US Open Champions Quietly Run the World (and Other Delusions We Export)
ByDaveslocker 7 September 2025

The Empire’s Tennis Ball: How US Open Champions Quietly Rule the World By a correspondent who once got food poisoning at Arthur Ashe and still blames capitalism NEW YORK—Every September the United States dutifully stages its fortnightly imperial coronation disguised as a sports tournament. The US Open crowns a new sovereign of string and neon,…

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International | Sports

Global Gladiators at Flushing Meadows: The US Open as Accidental Diplomacy
ByDaveslocker 7 September 2025

Flushing Meadows, Queens—where the Long Island Expressway coughs up its commuters and the aroma of fried dough collides with jet exhaust—has once again become the planet’s most ostentatious tennis court. For two weeks every late summer, the US Open transforms a former ash heap into a stage where geopolitics, corporate choreography, and fragile human tendons…

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