Donald Trump will become the first president of the United States to attend US Open in a quarter of a century on Sunday, since he joins the legions of fans in New York to see a highly anticipated confrontation between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.
Republican Trump has attended numerous sporting events to meet with his followers, but it is possible that he does not receive the warmest welcome in the US Open in New York City deeply democratic.
Once it was a tournament match before taking office and in 2015 he was booed by some tennis fans not long after launching his presidential campaign.
Ticket holders can expect extraordinary security measures in the extensive Billie King National Tennis Center in the municipality of Trump in the municipality of Trump, Queens, where the 2025 final tennis student is on the way to a fourth consecutive year of record assists.
While the expensive recreation patio for tennis fans and the influencers of social networks dressed as a designer regularly brings a variety of a-listers, the tournament has not seen a president of the United States since Bill Clinton attended in 2000.
Barack and Michelle Obama attended in 2023, six years after the Democratic president left office. The second Alcaraz planted said he would try not to think of Trump in the crowd, since he offers for his sixth Grand Slam title.
“I don’t want it to be nervous about that,” Spanish told reporters on Friday after defeating the 24 -time major winner Novak Djokovic in the semifinals.
“But I think, you know, attend the tennis party, it’s great for tennis to have the president in the final.”
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Trump is far from the first president of the United States to enter the focus of megawatts of professional sports.
Barack appeared in ESPN To complete his “March madness” group, while he was in office and George W Bush, famous the first release at Shea Stadium in 2001, when the Mets faced the Atlanta Braves for the first important sporting event of the city after the September 11 attacks.
But few have adopted the greatest sport events with the same taste as Trump, particularly in his second term.
Trump took the headlines when he became the first president of the United States to attend Super Bowl in February, entering the media of the most watched annual event in the United States.
New Orleans Superdome fans greeted him with a mixture of cheers and boos, and gathered briefly at the stadium with families of the victims of the New Year’s attack at Bourbon Street, as well as police and emergency workers.
Months later, Trump announced of the White House that Washington, DC, would organize the NFL 2027 draft, a mega annual event that regularly attracts hundreds of thousands of fans.
He attended the final of the FIFA Club World Cup in July, where he sat in the seat seats at the Metlife stadium with the FIFA Chief Gianni Infantino and remained on stage during the Trophy Lift with the winners Chelsea, with the confusion of some of the players.
Days after Alcaraz and the best sown are Sinner games, Trump is expected to attend the New York Yankees game against the Detroit Tigers in the 24th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
At the end of this month, the Ryder Cup is expected to attend the international competition of Biennial Golf, in Long Island.
In the US Open, Trump will attend as a “client guest,” the organizers said, and they will look from the respective suite of that guest in the famous Arthur Ashe Stadium.
“It is a privilege for tournaments that have the president of all countries only to support the tournament, support tennis and support the game,” said Alcaraz.
