When this grand dame of a city got serious about tennis, she dreamed up the Arthur Ashe stadium. The world’s largest open air tennis venue, it seats 22,457 according to Wikipedia. The feeling that one has, walking onto the courtside photographers pit is distinctly grand.I stopped at the entrance for a minute, to take in the four walled human tsunami closing in on a wide patch of green – the playground that tests the limits of the human spirit, and a place where history is served.

