Rybakina beat Sabalenka in a thriller for her first US Open. She's from Kazakhstan by way of Moscow, playing in Queens, in front of 23,000 people who paid $900 to whisper and one State Department that won't let them visit. The trophy's going home through customs.
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Rybakina's trophy is going home through customs. Kazakhstan by way of Moscow, via Queens, in a carry-on. It's the only thing leaving JFK this week that's not late.
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The defending champs are Alcaraz and Sabalenka. Two people in their twenties who've earned more than your entire family tree, including the ones you're not speaking to.
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A qualifier named Zheng Qinwen took the first set off Rybakina and beat Iga Swiatek in straight sets. Unranked. She came through qualifying and beat two Grand Slam champions. The bracket has more upward mobility than the country hosting it.
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Sabalenka was one win from three straight US Opens and lost to Rybakina. Belarus versus Kazakhstan for an American title, decided in three sets, and the loser still goes home with $2.5 million and a country that thinks she should have won.
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The US Open semis are set. Twenty-three thousand people paid $600 each to sit quietly in Queens. The 7 train home will remind them who they are.
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Ben Shelton beat Tiafoe and plays Zverev Sunday for the first American men's major in 23 years. Zverev's quote: "Hopefully I can not make the American dream come true." A German rooting against the American dream in New York. That's the first honest villain the city's had since the Yankees.
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