played the Cowboys and Eagles game,<\/a> while the smaller screens played the US Open. <\/p>\nNone of the TVs had sound on \u2014 with the only noise coming from trivia and loud music.<\/p>\n
Thirty Love is the self-proclaimed only tennis bar in the Big Apple. Tamara Beckwith<\/p>\n
\u201cWe came here to watch tennis\u2026 We looked online for sports bars in the area that were showing the tennis matches,\u201d said Banou Arjomand, 28, adding that they were bothered by the trivia noise: \u201cIt\u2019s so loud \u2026 It\u2019s sad.\u201d<\/p>\n
She, her sister and her sister\u2019s boyfriend weren\u2019t bothered that football was playing, but relented that it shouldn\u2019t be prioritized at Thirty Love.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the trivia is a bit distracting, especially if you market yourself as a tennis bar. Even the name of the bar is tennis-oriented. Thirty Love. The name is pretty tennis-branded, but the bar clearly is not. Or not enough,\u201d said Paul Kn\u00f6pfle. <\/p>\n
Paul Knopfle, left, May Arjomand, and her mother and Banou Arjomand were disappointed that trivia had taken over the tennis match. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n
Not all of the customers at the bar on Thursday were bothered, with most explaining they had come to the bar to play the weekly trivia game. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to do trivia, but I was like, it\u2019s the women\u2019s semifinals of tennis, so I wanted to somehow have it on in the background, and be watching that, too,\u201d said Lindsey Davis, 28.<\/p>\n
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The bar\u2019s owner, Gabriel Aguilar, promised The Post that the US Open was only taking a backseat for trivia, which has cultivated a \u201cloyal following\u201d in the neighborhood. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe still play tennis, we give tennis a precedent, but tennis tournaments aren\u2019t on every week. Between upstairs and downstairs, we have close to 20 TVs. So the majority of it will be on tennis, but if we can have one or two on football, you know, football is the most popular sport in the country, we\u2019re not going to ignore and pretend like football isn\u2019t on, we\u2019re going to play a little football, too,\u201d Aguliar said.<\/p>\n
Weekly trivia has a \u201cloyal following\u201d that Thirty Love wasn\u2019t willing to disturb for the US Open. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n
The bar will be packed for the upcoming U.S. Open Championship matches this weekend with one party reserving 70 people upstairs just to watch the finals. Tamara Beckwith<\/p>\n
The tennis matches will be back on the screens in full force \u2014 including sound \u2014 for the finals weekend, but with a catch.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe whole first floor will be US Open with the sound on. And the whole second floor will be football,\u201d said Aguliar. <\/p>\n
Staff at Thirty Love expect the bar to be packed this weekend, noting that during Wimbledon, one party reserved 70 people upstairs just to watch the finals.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to give the neighborhood not just tennis, but every day of the week, to have something,\u201d manager Guillermo Rangel, 31, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor us right now, it\u2019s all an experiment still, but that\u2019s what we want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This bar served up a major error. The self-proclaimed first tennis bar in the Big Apple stirred a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[55308,85808,5871,25785,99,428,5417,194,14687],"class_list":{"0":"post-137041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-bars","9":"tag-east-village","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york-city-life","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-tennis-match","15":"tag-us-news","16":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}