2020 US Open begins with the sounds of silence
9:21 PM ET NEW YORK — It’s easy to forget how much unspecific, ambient noise spectators can make at a tennis match, even when they are just sitting around, elbow to elbow, in a bowl made mostly of concrete and plastic. And as the pandemic-altered 2020 US Open began at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Monday under cloudy skies, there was an inauspicious feeling on Court 17 as France’s Kristina Mladenovic and American wild-card Hailey Baptiste walked down the stairs to the court like two spectators in a normal year heading to their prime, court-side boxes....
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