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Private entrances, air conditioning and caviar carts: What it’s really like in US Open’s $10K+ seats

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Private entrances, air conditioning and caviar carts: What it’s really like in US Open’s K+ seats

These aren’t the cheap seats. While commoner tennis fans pay $150 to $230 for ground passes for the privilege of waiting in hours-long lines for entrance, Honey Deuces and bathrooms, the rich, famous and connected are enjoying a very different US Open — with four- and five-digit price tags. Many say the best experience is … Read more

John McEnroe on the NYC icon that went from tennis to rock ‘n’ roll

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John McEnroe on the NYC icon that went from tennis to rock ‘n’ roll

Playing in his first US Open in singles at Forest Hills Stadium in 1977, tennis icon John McEnroe made his debut at 18 with a bang. An unseeded upstart, the Queens native found himself on the same clay courts where he was once a ballboy — gliding and grinding in an interborough contest against Brooklyn-born … Read more