Five reasons to watch the US Open even if you don’t care tennis

No, the formal elegance of the stands of Wimbledon is not there. There is no obligation in the clothing. There is no eternal effort of playing on the slow red earth of Roland Garros. There is not even the feeling, perhaps a little alienating, to play on the other side of the world as happens in Australia. The US Open They are close and far away at the same time. They take place in the city that never sleeps and actually due to time zone, the small hours are made to see the games. That’s why it is worth doing it even if tennis is not yet your sport.

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The US Open are the only Slam tournament that can also be seen in the clear as well as on Sky. This year and until 2030 the American tournament is broadcast on Supertennis TV. Sportcast, the Fitp group company that manages the channel, has reached an agreement with the Usta, the US tennis federation. For Angelo Binaghi, president of the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation, “we guarantee all tennis fans in Italy the opportunity to continue living, free of charge and live, the charm and magic of one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world. It is not just a commercial agreement, but a real cultural and sporty investment ». And it also applies to tennis still does not know it despite the ever greater successes of the blue tennis players starting from Jannik Sinner. Watching the games could give birth to a passion.

In search of the stars

Not that the VIPs are missing on the tribunes of Paris and London, but in New York it is another thing. They are more free to show all their passion and there are those who are practically subscriber. Spike Lee never fails, Ben Stiller too. And with them dozens of others without the limits imposed by the formal rules of the All England Club. In Flushing Meadows, in the Queens district, he really cheers.

All the rest of the cheering

And they cheer everyone, even in a damn, noisy and vulgar way. Perhaps the real example of how the tennis and in any other sport should not be. If Sinner’s Boys carrots are never lacking there are other fixed present in the stands of the US Open. There is a special fan of Italians. He has a beard and dark glasses and the TV does not fail to frame him. Giovanni Bartocci is an Italian restaurateur, originally from Ronciglione, in the Viterbo, who lives in New York and owns the Via della Pace restaurant in the East Village.

During the first match of Lorenzo Musetti he was in his box and everyone heard it. A few days ago The teamFrench sport Bible, dedicated a service to him by telling how every day, during the tournament, he goes with his Harley-Davidson to the fields of Queens. In addition to obviously to host the Italian champions in his restaurant. The post with the champions of the double mixed Errani and Vavassori.

“I like to cheer for Italians in general, of course, even for the weakest,” he says. The legends of the US Open say that it was taken up directly by a referee during a match of his favorite, Matteo Berrettini. He founded the Lazio Club Nyc, a non-profit association that raised funds for charity and also did the New York marathon. In the kitchen, however, it is his region of origin who triumph.

The cut of Alcaraz, the Djokovic jacket and all the others

The restrictions are more blander than the mandatory white of Wimbledon and this leaves room for clothing that dares and accompanies the most imaginative hairstyles. Novak Djokovic has proposed a jacket that collects his career. Naomi Osaka Osaka proposed a balloon skirt with crystals and roses inserts in the hair.

The Venus Willians door holder is synthetic fur. On everything he made the hairstyle discuss, defined as aerodynamic by Frances Tiafoe, by Carlos Alcaraz. If it becomes a fashion, it will be involuntary. The Spaniard arrived razed practically zero and said that it happened for an error of the brother with the machine. The only way to fix the damage was to cut everything.

The comments and activities of tennis players

There are no conditions such as those that tennis players find in New York elsewhere. For some years the main complaint has been for the smell of marijuana: smoking is legal in this US state. Tennists just don’t like this Afrore in the air. The life that is made at the US Open is much more citizen than that of other tournaments: tennis players live in hotels in the center of New York, Jannik Sinner said he went to buy a Lego in a nearby shop, there are images of him and others playing ping pong. Not that the activities of the sponsors are missing in the other tournaments, but the city that never sleeps gives its best in this sense.