It is the biggest sporting Sunday in New York and on either side of Manhattan supreme athletes set about fulfilling the American dream in events that attracted global superstars. Hope sprang eternal in New Jersey before the Giants began their NFL season against the Vikings on a blue sky day in the Big Apple as the franchise celebrated their 100 greatest footballers as part of this year’s centenary celebrations. Back across the bridges and tunnels that link New Jersey to Manhattan and then out to Queens, Taylor Fritz had drawn an A-List of talent as he bid to become the first American man since Andy Roddick in 2003 to clinch the US Open.

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As play was about to begin, the most famous Taylor in the world, Taylor Swift, sat courtside alongside her beau Travis Kelce and three-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Patrick Mahomes to watch the American favourite in action. Fritz was the underdog against world No.1 Jannik Sinner, the reigning Australian Open winner and hard court supremo, while the Giants were also the outsiders despite playing at home, judging by a straw poll of fans engaging in the first tailgate of a new season.

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