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Flushing Meadows' Giant Pulls Florida's Tennis Circuit North

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Jesse Orosco Dwight Gooden and Robin Ventura
Jesse Orosco Dwight Gooden and Robin Ventura · Michael G. Baron · CC BY 2.0 · source

As the U.S. Open opens at the sport's largest arena in Queens, the courts of Palm Beach and Naples empty out for a week while their regulars make the trip to watch tennis on the grandest scale the game offers. The stadium's decades-long history has made it the one stop on the calendar that even Florida's most storied clubs treat as the main event.

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