At KeySpan Park in Brooklyn, a few hundred people were in the stands built for 8,000.
New York's first concession stands, built in the 1700's, sold fresh oysters and cherrystone and littleneck clams.
Connors was able to outlast Gomez, 6-2, 7-6 (4) in front of about 2,400 fans in the makeshift stands built for 2,953.
One such home in Nanxun still stands — built by Zhang Shiming between 1899 and 1905, it had a ballroom and held 600,000 volumes of books, one of the most extensive collections during the Qing Dynasty.
Since then, the pitch has been rotated through 90 degrees, new stands built, the prevailing wind comes from a different angle and the wicket is said to have lost its teeth.
But Djokovic stuck at it and, with his new mentor, Boris Becker, turning dangerously pink in the stands, built on a 2-0 lead in the breaker to level at a set apiece.
Many come as spectators, viewing the Ice Park from one of two bridges that span the gorge or from a series of metal stands built into the rock walls.
From there I trek to the top of Monument Hill where a white ferro concrete tower stands built by residents to commemorate those who died in the first world war.
His finds include food stands built to look like cows, pigs, igloos, and giant-size ice-cream cones; a gas station in Ashtabula, Ohio, roofed over by an enormous flying saucer; a steakhouse south of Atlanta installed in a stationary DC-7 jet parked next to a swimming pool.
In the breast of America's heartland, a legend stands, built on tradition, brick by brick.
