US Open: No Boos for Trump During Final – Alcaraz vs Sinner

An internal directive warns the means that will focus on US President During the interpretation of the national anthem, which occurs in the prior of the vast majority of sporting events in the country.

Trump’s presence in Arthur Ashe, the central track of the US Open, in the grand final of the last ‘Grand Slam’ of the season had been confirmed this Friday both by the White House and by the organization of the tournament.

As soon as the visit was known, one of the issues that have been discussed in the tournament is if Trump would appear by the Giant Stadium screenswhich would probably cause boos and beeps.

That directive makes it clear that it is sought to minimize anger through these two strategies. On the one hand, try to censor the chains with rights so that they do not focus on it. In that document, to which several American media have had access and that was revealed first by tennis specialist Ben Rothenberg, the USTA says: «We ask all the chains to be refrain from showing any disruption or reaction of any form in response to the presence of the president ».

On the other, which focuses to the president on the giant screen During the interpretation of the anthem -And not in the breaks of the matches, as is the case with the celebrities who populate the stands of Arthur Ashe- they can intend to minimize that anger: many will refrain from booing or whistling as a form of respect to the anthem.

The circumstances of the central track of the New York tournament can also have an impact on this episode: Arthur Ashe It is the largest tennis stadium in the world, with capacity for more than 23,000 people, a thunderous boiler in the agitated moments of the matches. This Sunday, with a threat of rain, it is likely to play with the closed cover, where any reaction to Trump’s visit will rumble with more force.

A controversial visit

The USTA also reported that Trump has not been invited by the tournament, but by a client who has a box. Rothenberg also revealed that this box is from Rolex, Switzerland’s house, which has a lot of presence in the world of tennis. One of his iconic images is that of Roger Federer, one of the great dominators of the twentieth century tennis. But at present, Rolex also sponsors some of the best current players, such as Coco Gauff, IgA Swiatek and the two protagonists of the final, Sinner and Alcaraz.

The Murcian tennis player has made it clear that he will not be among those who boo Trump this Sunday: “It is a privilege for tournaments that come the presidents of each country to support the tournament, support tennis, support the game,” Alcaraz said after winning his semifinal against Novak Djokovic this Friday. He added that he will try to make Trump’s presence and everything around him does not disguise him, he does not make him nervous. “But I think it is very good for tennis that the president is in the final,” he insisted.

For Trump, coming to Queens, the New York district where Flushing Meadows is, the scenario of the US Open, is to return home. The now president grew up in Jamaica Estates, a neighborhood in Queens fifteen minutes from where the tournament is and even closer to where he was held when he was a child, in Forest Hills. In fact, the school he went to is very close to that park.

Trump has been a tennis fan of his life. He liked to practice it although now – at 79 – always opt for golf. But before landing in politics, such as ‘celebrity’ of business and television, all the September was fixed in Flushing Meadows. The last time he came was in 2015, three months after announcing his presidency candidacy for the 2016 elections, which took him to the White House for the first time. By then, he had already said that the Mexican immigrants were criminals and rapists and had dynamited the republican primaries with their rupturist style of doing politics. When he showed him the giant screen, in a match between the Serena and Venus Williams sisters, he took a sound whine.

Trump’s visit is part of the growing taste of the US president for appearing in great sporting events. He did it in the major of all, in the Super Bowl, at the beginning of February, a few days after swearing the position. There Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles welcomed him with division of opinions. It was booed in another event with less favorable audience, in the final of the Club World Cup, played on the outskirts of New York in July (and where it slipped, to the surprise of the winner’s captain, Chelsea FC, at the time of the celebration when lifting the cup).

On other occasions, he has visited sporting events where he is idolized. For example, in Daytona 500 cars races, one of the most popular competitions in the US, where a return to the circuit was given aboard ‘La Beast’, the presidential armored car. But where it has gone more times it is to fights from the UFC, where it is revered.

The presence of Trump in the US Open has also forced the organization has reinforce security measures. The organization has warned those who go to the tournament this Sunday to go with time since controls similar to those of the entrance to an airport will be established. The US president was saved from a miracle of an attempt to murder last summer, when he was still a candidate for the White House, when he was shot in a rally in Pennsylvania. A bullet wounded him in an ear on that occasion, which was not the last time someone tried to take his life. Also in campaign, the secret service arrested a man who sought to shoot Trump from the outskirts of a golf course in which he enjoyed his favorite sport.