Flushing Meadows in 2025 did something the tournament has been doing for a long time: it turned tennis into theater. For two weeks the site was equal parts arena and salon—courtside seats as stage boxes, sponsor suites as catwalks, and the blue carpet as a second runway. The US Open 2025 men’s final—Carlos Alcaraz versus Jannik Sinner—was the obvious center of gravity, but the story of this Open was just as much about who came to see it: actors, musicians, designers, athletes, and power players moving through the day like extras in a movie about spectacle.

They came in clusters and solos. Courteney Cox, Ben Stiller, and Jon Hamm traded the kind of looks that read as dinner-table shorthand: equal parts gossip and genuine admiration for the tennis. Rami Malek and Naomi Watts watched with a

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