By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Picture credit score: Madison Sq. Backyard Facebok
Stars who lit up Arthur Ashe stadium with spellbinding shotmaking convey the magic to Madison Sq. Backyard tonight.
The 2022 US Open champion Carlos Alcaraz faces 2023 Flushing Meadows semifinalist Ben Shelton and US Open finalist Jessica Pegula will play US Open semifinalist Emma Navarro in The Backyard Cup exhibition occasion tonight.
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Tonight, MSG Networks will air The Backyard Cup motion stay beginning at 7 p.m. Japanese time.
It is a main tennis return to Madison Sq. Backyard, which previously hosted the year-end ATP Finals underneath Event Director Gene Scott.
The season-ending WTA Finals, previously generally known as the Chase Championships, had been staged at Madison Sq. Backyard for greater than 20 years beginning in 1977 and ending in 2000 when Martina Hingis defeated Monica Seles earlier than a packed MSG crowd. Hingis and buddy Anna Kournikova partnered to win the doubles championship on the 2000 Madison Sq. Backyard farewell.
Madison Sq. Backyard additionally hosted what was the one best-of-five-set ladies’s skilled closing when the WTA Finals featured a best-of-five closing from 1984 to 1998.
Monica Seles’ victory over Gabriela Sabatini within the 1990 closing and Steffi Graf’s win over Martina Hingis within the 1996 closing had been among the many WTA Finals title matches that spanned the five-set restrict at MSG.
