12
Sep/11

US OPEN LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE PARK

12
Sep/11

The men’s U.S. Open finals will be broadcast live in Madison Square Park on September 12 at 4:00 (photo by twi-ny/ees)

Madison Square Park
26th St. between Fifth & Madison Aves.
Monday, September 12, free, 4:00
www.madisonsquarepark.org

With the rainouts at this year’s U.S. Open tennis championships in Flushing Meadows, the men’s final will be taking place this afternoon at 4:00 instead of yesterday. Tickets to the event at Arthur Ashe Stadium are mighty expensive, but you can watch it in the great outdoors for free in Madison Square Park as part of US Open Live, which has been extended one day as well. Number one seed Novak Djokovic will be taking the court against number two Rafael Nadal, with the Serb seeking revenge on the Spaniard, who beat him 6–4, 5–7, 6–4, 6–2 in last year’s championship match. Djokovic also lost in the finals to Roger Federer in 2007, so this might finally be his time, especially with a 63-2 overall record this year. The big screen is set up in the north side of the park, and just like at the Open, there are special food booths and dishes, including crispy heritage pork ribs, fried fish skewers, couscous salad, fried chickpeas, tiramisu, and vanilla gelato from Eataly, ruffle goat cheese crab pizza, braised pork buns, and cumin eggplant buns from Graffiti, and Cuban, meatball, tuna, and corned beef sandwiches and kale salad from Resto.