Flushing Meadows

Open tennis site

Flushing Meadows is a park in Queens, New York City, site of two World's Fairs (1939 and 1964) and now home to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, where the US Open is held annually.

In sports contexts, Flushing Meadows often serves as shorthand for the tournament itself: She won her first title at Flushing Meadows.

QueensEasternmost NYC district
US OpenAmerican tennis championship
tennis tournamentCompetitive match series
center courtPrimary competition arena
hard courtRigid athletic surface

championship match · Robert Moses · New York City · Billie Jean King · Long Island · Arthur Ashe · Serena Williams · Rafael Nadal · sports complex · Grand Slam · public parks · park grounds · Great Depression · Cold War · Shea Stadium · New York Mets · World's Fair · New York Mets

Opposites

new york park prestige/centrality

Flushing MeadowsCentral Park

Manhattan's vast public greenspace

Manhattan · Washington Square Park · Upper East Side · Prospect Park

tennis venue tradition

Flushing MeadowsWimbledon

Premier grass-court championship

Centre Court · grass courts · clay courts

world's fair temporality

Flushing MeadowsCrystal Palace

Iron-framed glass exhibition hall

Eiffel Tower

Family

flushing, meadows, flush, meadow, flushed, flushes, meads, mead

Familiarity: Top 1,000,000
Profile: Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G