U.S. Open pauses to remember 9/11 under 激しい 安全
By Steve Keating
NEW YORK, Sept 11 (Reuters) - The U. S. Open reached an emotional 最高潮 on Sunday as the year's final （野球の）満塁ホームラン，（テニスなどの）グランドスラム paused まっただ中に 激しい 安全 before the start of the men's （テニスなどの）シングルス to remember those who died in the 9/11 attacks 15 years ago.
As ひどく 武装した 警官s and 爆弾 匂いをかぐing dogs patrolled the sprawling Billie ジーンズ King Tennis 中心, a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium with 9/11/01 stenciled into the 法廷，裁判所 観察するd a moment of silence followed by a flyover of four F-15E Strike Eagles.
The U.S. Open's 紅潮／摘発するing Meadows home is just 10 miles to the northeast of the 場所／位置 of the former Twin Towers of the World 貿易（する） 中心, the 2001 attacks left a 示す on the sprawling 施設 and many players.
At the Open in 2001, a 20-year old Australian Lleyton Hewitt 敗北・負かすd American Pete Sampras to 勝利，勝つ the men's final two days before the attack.
Several of the players in that year's tournament left New York on flights in the days and even hours before the Twin Towers （機の）カム 負かす／撃墜する.
Over the years since, 得点する／非難する／２０s of 最高の，を越す tennis players from around the world have made their way to the 場所／位置 of the Twin Towers.
Spain's twice U.S. Open 支持する／優勝者 Rafa Nadal, who was 15-years-old in 2001, has said he has gone to memorialize the 9/11 犠牲者s at least a half dozen times over the years.
セルビア人 Novak Djokovic, who played スイスの Stan Wawr inka in Sunday's final, in 2009 招待するd several children of 9/11 犠牲者s to see him play at the Open.
American Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who began Sunday's 活動／戦闘 on Arthur Ashe Stadium 法廷，裁判所 partnering with Lucie Safarova, paid her own 尊敬の印 wearing 星／主役にするs and （土地などの）細長い一片s 膝-high socks and wrist 禁止（する）d.
"It is an emotional day," said Mattek-Sands, who won gold at the Rio Olympics in mixed （テニスなどの）ダブルス with Jack Sock. "I was going to retire my American 旗 socks after the gold メダル match.
"I said, You know what? For the final of the U.S. Open, 9/11, have to bring them out.
"It was really special for me to 勝利，勝つ it here today in New York."
In Lower Manhattan on Sunday morning, thousands gathered at the 9/11 記念の 場所／位置 to 祝う／追悼する the 15th 周年記念日, as police, firefighters and 救助（する） 労働者s mixed with 犠牲者s' families and U.S. 大統領の 候補者s Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Clinton left the 儀式 早期に after feeling unwell on a hot, 湿気の多い day. (付加 報告（する）／憶測ing Joshua Schneyer. Editing by Andrew Both)
