Top Spin Blog » U.S. Open Series http://www.topspinblog.com Tennis Blog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:54:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The American Pig Trail that is the U.S. Open Series http://www.topspinblog.com/2009/08/the-american-pig-trail-that-is-the-us-open-series/ http://www.topspinblog.com/2009/08/the-american-pig-trail-that-is-the-us-open-series/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:23:45 +0000 Joe Samuel Starnes http://www.topspinblog.com/?p=1024 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> The six stops on the ATP tour of the U.S. Open series include only two top-tier American cities:  Los Angeles and Washington.  But the rest of it is either second tier — Indianapolis and Cincinatti; fourth tier, New Haven; or not even the U.S., either Montreal and Toronto, depending on the year.  Why can’t the USTA get tournaments in major-league cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco or Seattle?  Compare in your mind the cities of Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and New Haven with the pre-French Open stops like Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Rome, and Madrid.  No wonder the game is more popular in other countries.

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