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Video: Fight Breaks Out At The U.S. Open

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Photo via the AP

Who knew tennis matches could be so riddled with crime! While it hasn't gotten all Match Point over in Queens (yet), there has been some unsavory behavior at the U.S. Open, and it's only the first week. First up, this guy was caught trying to scalp 339 tickets on Tuesday—but then the real action happened last night, when we saw the first upper deck brawl—it was all caught on video, of course:

According to the NY Post, the fight happened during the Novak Djokovic (Serbia) and Philipp Petzschner (Germany) match, around 9 p.m., when a female fan asked a man in his 20s to refrain from using the F word so much. Words were exchanged, there was allegedly a slap match between the two, and then an older gent stepped in and ended up falling down the stairs.

The U.S. Open may want to beef up their security! Needless to say, the match stopped due to the distraction, and a U.S. Tennis Association spokesman addressed the issue, saying: “It’s a hot night in New York. Things happen." Maybe we'll get to see a Richie Tenenbaum at Windswept Fields-type breakdown sometime before the Open closes on the 12th.

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  • robingee

    Nice still photo! Good capture.

  • tengobotas

    stay classy ny

  • whitecastlerock

    Pedro Martinez versus Don Zimmer flashbacks here-Zimmer was hailed as a warrior, a stand up guy-sticking up for his team, he could do no wrong in New Yorker's eyes. Here an old guy wants to teach the foul mouthed ruffian a lesson and it is called "assault".

  • whitecastlerock

    I stand corrected-that NY Post video clearly shows her slapping him first-I have no idea what provoked the insanity, but she should have called security and not taken matters into her own hands.

  • BC70

    They had no right to touch the guy - it's assault plain and simple.

  • Guest

    it's all fun and games until someone says, "assault."

  • AYCE

    A thousand pardons for promoting the NY Pest errr Post, but the video on their site is much better...you get to hear the pimp-smack the lady gives him:

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/fight_night_at_the_open_QlwSKhd4YInp9hGBdZ7m0K?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=

  • Guest

    thanks for the close-up of the homosexual train @ 1:58

  • Bike Rider

    i love the guy's gesturing, suddenly i give a shit about golf, tennis, whatever the fuck the open is about

  • iamdmg

    The First Amendment does not protect your right to curse in front of my mom and then to curse AT her...you might think that is how it works but I assure you it does not.

    try reading the Bill of Rights sometimes...save us all some time correcting you.

  • Huffy6241

    The first amendment does clearly state "when some dumbass is saying something you find offensive, but what they have every every right to express, it's also your right to get up in that person's face and assault them - cuz, you know, what he was saying hurt your mommies wittle feewings."

  • iamdraize

    that video deserves re-watching, the reactions from the people in the crowd are great.

    on a 2nd viewing, with no volumne, the young guy seems less of the instigator.



    the old man does try some sort of head grab which gets them both thrown down....the old man is still coming to from that when the video is over...then the woman does swing and the guy, and instead of swinging back he just kind of pushes with his body...

    I wonder what really happened.

  • Guest

    I wonder what really happened.

    "you slept with our daughter 2 weeks ago. you seriously can't be here!"

    or

    "you have some audacity to be at the u.s. open -- you failed calculus last year, son. so go home, now!"

    or

    "i can't believe you brought your boyfriend here to make me jealous."

    "oh, so who's the old man?"

  • Guest

    (for the third case)

    jerry, jerry, jerry, jerry!

  • saianjuma1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDFM3wzkT8k

    Adrenalin O.d. - OLD PEOPLE TALK LOUD

    Old people talk loud WHAT?

    Old people smell bad WHAT?

    Old people walk slow WHAT?

    Old people complain

    They wouldn't know their names it it weren't on the check,

    Tie up traffic in their Dodge Swingers,

    Child proof caps are a problem with arthritis,

    They're just too senile for anything else.

    Spend their golden years walking the dog

    Get their foodstamps, buy Geritol,

    Stay up late nights, pop Sominex,

    You lived your lives why don't you just go die

  • kazubes

    Ok thank you

  • Kelles

    This is totally wrong

    -the old guy shuffles awkwardly forward telegraphing his move

    -there is no shoulder rotation on the initial shot

    -the eastern stance favored by older US players didn't allow old guy to shift for an unexpectedly rising target (the younger guy's head)

    -his weight is on his back foot for his two-handed backhand

    - no hip/shoulder rotation

    - and finally, never underestimate the importance of a follow-thru

    ----

    P.S. @1:43 nice seat jumping

  • JacqueMehoff

    this is what happens when you don't play God Bless America between player changes.

  • JenChungsBaby

    So this is another sign that the terrorists have already won?

  • Spirit of 76

    Too bad Roger Federer wasn't there. He could have ended the fight with a well-placed tennis ball to somebody's head. Unless that famous "William Tell" video was a fake.

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