From a Wall Street Journal story by Jason Gay headlined “What Are America’s ‘Bucket List’ Sports Experiences?”:

The U.S. Open tennis tournament is often hailed as “one of the great sporting events in America”—partly because it happens in New York City, and New York City can’t help but be rigorously full of itself, and also because, yes, the U.S. Open is one of the great sporting events in America.