WThe dust will finally settle in the days after Sunday’s scope at the US Open Men’s final, the United States Tennis Association will publish its annual press release from Victory-Rap. It will catch a different opening of the record: more than a million fans through the gates, unprecedented social media engagement, double figures growth in the sale of food and drink and hundreds of celebrities packed in suites from Rolex to Ralph Lauren. It will shine about growing the game, defending diversity and changing rinsing meadows into a pop culture destination.
But for all milestones that the USTA prepares to celebrate, this year’s tournament will be reminded for a different species first: the regrettable decision of the administrative body to ask broadcasters not to show deviating opinions against Donald Trump. When making that preventive concession, the USTA committed a non-forced error that cannot be undone: sacrificing authenticity and credibility to protect a politician- each Politician, regardless of party, ideology or connection – from the sound of public disapproval.
According to internal e -mails obtained through points of sale such as PA and BounceThe USTA instructed its television partners to “refrain from presenting disturbances or reactions” when Trump appears on the screen during Sunday’s final. A separate memorandum reminded the staff that he would be in Rolex’s Suite as a customer guest. The declaration of 11 words to the Guardian on Saturday night of a USTA spokesperson “We regularly ask our broadcasters to abandon the presentation of extrajudicial disruptions” is so weak that it could be stuck under the weight of his own hypocrisy. (Rolex did not respond to a request for comment.)
After all, this is the same tournament that fortunately has broadcast a climate demonstrator on television that highlights a chair for almost an hour during the semi-final victory of Coco Gauff on Karolina Muchova two years ago, together with countless other fan disorders. The same tournament that gets on the drunk Buffoonery are behind American Bro-Pen Reputation. The open practically invented broadcasts. Chaos is the brand. For the USTA to draw the border to show angry for a sitting president is not “policy consistency” but capitulation.
And for what purpose? Because of the fear that Trump – once a competition at the US Open but booed loudly during his last visit in 2015, three months after announcing his first presidential campaign – can be exposed again as an unpopular for a global audience? Because of the fear that a choir of hunters could overshadow the game itself? But that fear wrongly understands both sport and democracy.
Crowd -abnormal opinion on broadcasts is not a breakdown of the civilian order. It is his expression. Subsequently, the British Minister of the Interior Theresa May was booed at the London Paralympics 2012. French President Emmanuel Macron Was called During the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup in 2023 in Paris. In the US, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is Everything but guaranteed a choir of angry During public performances, and that is practically a standing ovation next to it The Ven is reserved For NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman from fans. And Trump and his predecessor, Joe Biden, have been Given hostile receptions Due to sports. Somehow the United Kingdom, France and the United States survived those incidents intact.
That the USTA thinks that Trump should be isolated from reality hints on slightly darker. It is reminiscent of regimes where the image of the leader must be protected against public spot. It shows how many Trump’s first term – and its bullying of cultural institutions – is still behavior. In his first presidency he was widely described by athletes and sports bodies. Now, as Tom Dart wrote for this year’s Super Bowl, he is increasingly being housed or treated with silence.
The Open is supposed to be the New York tournament, brash and democratic, noisy and unfiltered, lively and exuberantly multicultural, where the crowd is also a character as the players on the field. By cleaning his reaction, the USTA does not only protect Trump. It strips the event of its unique character, authenticity and integrity.
That irony cuts even deeper because the opening has always been first in progress. It was the first of the Majors who immediately granted prize money to women and men, long before other sports caught up. It has lgbtq+ athletes decades before it was in fashion to do this, embraced and celebrated, from Billie Jean King and Martina Novratilova in the 1970s to Renée Richard’s Breaking Ground as one of the first transgender patients in professional tennis, to open pride -night today. And this year’s theme, “75 years of breaking barriers”, honors Althea Gibson, who in 1950 became the first black player to participate in the predecessor of the tournament, the American subjects, and continued to free up a path for generations of black players who followed. Her story is literally built into the site, from the banners and installations designed by Melissa Koby – the first black artist who creates the theme art of the Open – to the constant memories that the sport has continued on inclusion.
From a Maga viewing point, of course, it probably looks like the Woke Super Bowl: King’s name on the Gates, Gibson’s silhouette over Ashe Stadium, Serena and Venus Williams Lionized, rainbow-tinted “open pride” night, and a reigning body tumbling diversity at every turn. What, if we are honest, perhaps a reason is that Trump appears in the first place: a 4D chess movement with the intention of a tennis competition to convert into another battlefield of grievances. Bode will be by thousands of fans who drink $ 23 Wodka Lemonades will not be a bad look for his base, especially in a corrupt, disgusting Helgat such as New York.
Fans will still do what fans do. If they want Boo, they will be Boo. But millions at home may never see it, thanks to an administrative body that has chosen to behave less as a sports guardian and more as a nervous producer of campaign -StageCraft. For a sport that is proud of honesty and clarity – the ball is in or out – it is a shameful refuge.
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