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Free
Admission to Tennis
By Katarina
Tepesh
Free admission to US
Open Qualifying Tournament starting Tuesday, August 23 – Friday,
August 26, 2005. Gates open at 10:00 am at the USTA National Tennis
Center.
Come see tomorrow’s
Croatian tennis stars today at one of the largest tennis tournaments
in the United States. Admission to all US Open qualifying matches
is FREE!
Also Free admission
Open Practice Day on Sunday, August 28, 2005; Gates open at 11:00
am. Come see your favorite Croatian tennis star up close and personal
as they practice for the 2005 US OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS.
Support Croatian
tennis stars IVAN LJUBICIC, MARIO ANCIC, IVO KARLOVIC, KAROLINA
SPREM, JELENA KOSTANIC, SANDRA MAMIC, SILVIJA TALAJA, ROKO KARANUSIC,
SASA TUKSAR, ZELJKO KRAJAN, MAJA PALAVERSIC COOPERSMITH, LOVRO ZOVKO
and others.
Competing among
Juniors will be MARIN CILIC, SANJA ANCIC, PETAR JELINIC, IVANA ABRAMOVIC,
JOSKO TOPIC, NIKA OZEGOVIC and others.
Playing at US
OPEN, Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York from August 29 –
September 12, 2005. Prize money is rising from last year and the
Men’s and Women’s singles champions will each get a
record $1.1 million.
To purchase
tickets for 2005 US OPEN, go to TicketMaster.com or call TicketMaster
at 1-866-OPEN-TIX
Tickets are
available for groups of 25 or more. One Free Ticket for every 25
tickets purchased per session. Call 718-760-6200 menu option #1.
The US Open
is the highest annually attended sporting event in the world with
more than 625,000 fans. More than 86 million viewers watched the
US Open on CBS and USA Network, and international broadcasts reached
199 countries. For more info see www.usopen.org
Transportation:
Subway at Grand Central
Station/Times Square take Flushing bound IRT number 7 train to Willets
Point-Shea Stadium stop.
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