{"id":57818,"date":"2020-09-01T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/us-open-honoring-frontline-workers-through-ballpersons-uniforms\/"},"modified":"2020-09-01T06:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T03:43:00","slug":"us-open-honoring-frontline-workers-through-ballpersons-uniforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/us-open-honoring-frontline-workers-through-ballpersons-uniforms\/","title":{"rendered":"#US Open honoring frontline workers through ballpersons\u2019 uniforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#US Open honoring frontline workers through ballpersons\u2019 uniforms<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n For the first time at the U.S. Open, the ball boys and girls have names on their backs. But not their own.<\/p>\n

Instead, the heroic health-care workers who have been on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19 in New York City will get well-deserved publicity in Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a nice thought gleaned from the NBA, where players are wearing messages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n

Ralph Lauren, the official outfitter of the Open, which provides uniforms for all on-court officials and the ball boys and girls, partnered with New York\u2019s Mount Sinai Health System to honor their essential workers from the New York area in recognition of their efforts during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Mount Sinai, the Open\u2019s medical services provider, chose the 50 employees to be feted out of 600-plus submissions.<\/p>\n

However, a good chunk of the ball girls wore ponytails blocking out almost all of the name.<\/p>\n

At this point, there are no ball boys or girls being used except on the two showcourts, Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong stadiums. (Grandstand is not being used).<\/p>\n

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Taylor Fritz, the rising American who is seeded 19th, shook off blowing a set point in the first-set tiebreaker to roll to a 6-7 (9-7), 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 triumph over German Dominik Koepfer.<\/p>\n

After he sailed a forehand long to lose the first set, an emotional Fritz bellowed \u201cYou can\u2019t play any worse.\u2019\u2019 The tall, hard-serving Fritz is trying to turn back the flagging fortunes of American men\u2019s tennis.<\/p>\n

Because the event is fan-less, Fritz was put on the smallest court on the grounds \u2014 Court 5 \u2014 which has only two rows of bleachers. A cozy 10 people watched the match, including the USTA player development director Martin Blackman. \u2026 There\u2019s another young American to keep an eye on, 19-year-old Brandon Nakashima, who got a wild card into the Open and captured his first-rounder Monday over Paolo Lorenzi of Italy, 6-3, 6-2, 7-6. Nakashima dropped out of Virginia to turn pro last year after earning ACC Rookie of the Year. The young American, who works with Pat Cash, will play seeded fifth-seeded Alex Zverev in the next round. According to a source, he hit with Novak Djokovic last week.<\/p>\n

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Reilly Opelka\u2019s latest chance to prove he\u2019s the next American men\u2019s tennis hope did not last long. The unseeded 23-year-old went one-and-done at the U.S. Open, falling to No. 7 David Goffin, 7-6, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4.<\/p>\n

Opelka, who retired with a knee injury in the semifinals of the Western & Southern Open last week, had split the first two sets with Goffin and was tied 1-1 in the third set before the German took over.<\/p>\n

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Frenchman Benoit Paire, who tested positive for COVID-19 Sunday, won\u2019t take anyone down with him for now, but seven players in contact with him were put in a \u201cbubble within a bubble\u2019\u2019 for a few days, a tournament official confirmed.<\/p>\n

One of those players, Kristina Mladenovic, the 30th seed also of France, won her first-round match Monday over American wild-card Hailey Baptiste, 7-5, 6-2 but explained it\u2019s been an ordeal.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s been very tough the last two, three days for me, emotionally, nerves,\u2019\u2019 Mladenovic said. \u201cI\u2019m in a new bubble within a bubble very little I\u2019m allowed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mladenovic said she\u2019s under heavier restrictions than most other players regarding training, even though she\u2019s been tested twice since and was negative.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m allowed to play my match but literally I\u2019m not allowed to do anything else,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cLiterally seeing no one else. Mentally it\u2019s very tough. I had one practice with him and 35 minutes with him in the lobby [in a group]. I feel very unlucky there. It\u2019s pretty tough to accept it because I\u2019m not close in his entourage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tournament director Stacey Allaster told Tennis Magazine players believed to be in contact with Paire will remain in the tournament. Allaster said safety and health protocols were implemented with contact tracing but nobody else is being bounced for now.<\/p>\n

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In the biggest upset and turnaround, ninth-seeded Diego Schwartzman of Argentina surrendered a 2-0 set lead and lost to Britain\u2019s Cameron Norrie 3-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, 7-5.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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