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arthur ashe stadium

arthur ashe stadium
arthur ashe stadium

Arthur Ashe Stadium, located in Flushing Meadows Park, is the main tennis stadium of the U.S. Open, the last of each year's four Grand Slam tournaments.

Arthur Ashe Stadium, named for the legendary tennis great who won the 1968 U.S. Open, is the centerpiece of the USTA National Tennis Center

Born in Richmond, Virginia, Ashe began playing tennis at the age of ten. In 1966 he graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he won the United States Intercollegiate Singles Championship and led his team to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship. At the 1968 U.S. Open, Ashe defeated several competitors to win the men’s singles title. By 1975, he was ranked the number-one tennis player in the U.S. After this string of athletic successes, Ashe began suffering heart problems. Retiring from the game, he underwent heart surgery in 1979 and again in 1983.

During one of his hospital stays, Ashe was likely given an HIV-tainted blood transfusion and he soon contracted AIDS. Despite his illness, he remained involved in public life. His participation in many youth activities, such as the National Junior Tennis League and the ABC Cities Tennis Program, and his role in protests against South African apartheid earned Ashe recognition as 1992 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year, long after his athletic career had ended. He died of pneumonia in New York at age 49.

As part of a successful bid to keep the United States Open in New York, Mayor David N. Dinkins agreed to the construction of an expensive new tennis stadium for the United States Tennis Association in 1992. Controversy later erupted when the mayor, an avid tennis fan, ordered the rerouting of all airborne traffic from nearby LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports so as not to disturb that year’s U.S. Open. Dinkins, receiving heated remarks from the airports, the press and many local residents, maintained his immediate stance, but curtailed his no-fly zone policy during future U.S. Open tournaments.

The list of women’s U.S. Open winners is just as impressive and nearly as long, going back to 1887. Greats like Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert Lloyd and Billie Jean King have all been victorious.

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All the courts used by the US Open are lit, meaning that TV coverage of the tournament can extend into prime time to attract more ratings. This has recently been used to the advantage of the USA Network on cable and especially for CBS, the American broadcast TV outlet for the Open for many years, which used its influence to move the women's singles final to Saturday night to draw better television ratings.

In 2007:

Defending champion and second seed Maria Sharapova, having lost only two games in the first two rounds at the 2007 U.S. Open, was stunned 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 by Polish teenager Agnieszka Radwanska .

Radwanska, ranked No. 32 in the world and seeded 30 here, never buckled under the weight of playing the defending champ and revealed a fearlessness out on court.

"I had nothingA to lose," she said, "Just she was the favorite, and I think she was more nervous. I just played my game."

Sharapova seemed to take control by winning eight games in a row, giving her a 2-0 lead in the final set. Then, she fell apart and gave up the match by losing six games in a row.

2007 us open tennis winners

New York, Sep 10 (Xinhua) Following are the title winners at the $19.6-million US Open tennis tournament that ended Sunday:

Men's Singles: Roger Federer (Switzerland)

Women's Singles: Justine Henin (Belgium)

Men's Doubles: Simon Aspelin (Sweden) and Julian Knowle (Austria)

Women's Doubles: Nathalie Dechy (France) and Dinara Safina (Russia)

Mixed Doubles: Viktoria Azarenka (Belarus) and Max Mirnyi (Belarus)

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