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MATCH POINT: As the US Open's stunning Flushing Meadows hosts the Wimbledon National Open, get the tense SW19 expansion off the ground or left behind, as New York's lesson in Wimbledon was instructive
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August 30, 2023
MIKE DICKSON IN NEW YORK: The Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre in Flushing Meadows has been in fine shape this week, considering that it began life as a salt marsh before becoming a huge garbage tip. It is not a place of stunning beauty, but it is gone are the days when late American commentator Bud Collins complained: 'It may be a dump, but it is our dump.' The Arthur Ashe Stadium is still the centerpiece, the size of a decent football stadium around a rectangular strip of tennis court that is best seen lit up under the night sky. The modern Flushing Meadows, as it is, is a product of perseverance, something that could be reflected upon across the Atlantic in the All England Club's far more stately surrounds. Plans to extend on to a neighboring golf course that Wimbledon now owns is also in danger.