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That tournament allowed the world to begin to get familiar with her style of crisp, clean tennis, managing to attack early in points from the baseline without sacrificing accuracy. By the end against the 11th-seeded Bencic, a U.S. Open semifinalist in 2019, Raducanu had nearly twice as many winners as unforced errors, 23-12.

“We’ve got a lot of season; 24 games is a lot of games. A lot can happen, and we’re very respectful of that. If things look a lot better, then there is a different formula you can use. Right now, Eloy is not playing because his knee is sore. If it wasn’t, he’d be in there. Our attention, our priority right now (is) guys we’re playing with, play as hard as we can, win the game we’re playing, the series we’re playing.”

Seated in the front row right below him were his family, his father Charles, his mother Dorothy, his sister Charlee, his grandmother, his wife Hannah and his two young daughters. Behind them were his former Yankee teammates, Jorge Posada, Tino Martinez, Gerald Williams and his fellow iconic pal Michael Jordan. Seated further back were Hal Steinbrenner and club COO Lonn Trost representing the Yankees. And, of course, seated among the 34 returning Hall-of-Famers behind him were Mariano Rivera, Reggie Jackson and Joe Torre. “I thank you Mr. T, for trusting me [as a rookie in 1996] or at least making me think you trusted me,” Jeter said.