Before Flushing Meadows, even before Forest Hills, the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament’s first home was in Newport, Rhode Island at what is now the International Tennis Hall of Fame. When the national tennis tournament began, it was located in the Newport Casino, a social club commissioned by newspaper owner James Gordon Bennett Jr. of the […]
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