{"id":153621,"date":"2025-09-13T10:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T10:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153621\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T10:05:09","slug":"on-aryna-and-an-empty-arena-by-ben-rothenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153621\/","title":{"rendered":"On Aryna and an Empty Arena &#8211; by Ben Rothenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will have the traditional post-major Bounces notebook with various miscellany from the U.S. Open here for y\u2019all in a few days, but first I wanted to cover two stories which caught my eye this week at the always-busy intersection of tennis and politics.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a week after his disruptive visit to the U.S. Open men\u2019s final, U.S. President Donald Trump inserted himself into the tennis discourse in a novel, unexpected way.<\/p>\n<p>To read about Trump\u2019s comments on Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s nationality and also a detailed rundown of the tension which led to extreme measures around this week\u2019s Canada-Israel Davis Cup tie, please subscribe to Bounces. Thanks! -Ben<\/p>\n<p data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/subscribe?&amp;gift=true&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Give a gift subscription&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\" class=\"button-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/subscribe?&amp;gift=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"button primary\" target=\"_blank\">Give a gift subscription<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/subscribe?group=true&amp;coupon=e328333c&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 20% off a group subscription&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\" class=\"button-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/subscribe?group=true&amp;coupon=e328333c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"button primary\" target=\"_blank\">Get 20% off a group subscription<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I will have the traditional post-major Bounces notebook with various miscellany from the U.S. Open here for y\u2019all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-153621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153621","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=153621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}