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Bleacher Report: How the US Open Became the Biggest, Boldest Tournament in Tennis
8:07 AMBy Art Spander
Featured Columnist
NEW YORK — We’ll borrow those familiar lyrics, about making it here, making it in the Big Apple, making it in the city that never sleeps — or shuts up. They’ve made it here, created an event that fits the city like a traffic jam on Lexington Avenue. And truly, it doesn’t matter if they make it anywhere else.
The United States Tennis Association has a tournament that’s seemingly endless, incredibly noisy and wonderfully exciting, perfect for New York, perfect for the most boisterous and unavoidable of the four Grand Slams.
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