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Courtside in Queens: The Crowd That Turns Tennis Into Theater

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Group of diverse fashion models posing in elegant evening gowns on luxurious staircase indoors.
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New York's summer social calendar always circles back to the same stretch of hard courts in Flushing, where a front-row seat says as much as any red carpet. This year's US Open crowd kept the tradition alive, trading gowns for tailored courtside looks built for late-August heat and primetime cameras.

With reporting from Elle.

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