US Open Takeaways: #3, Winners aplenty in New York

This 17-point roundup is about the players who put it all on and inside the lines at the rowdiest major event of the season. The hits started early, and they certainly kept coming.

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The likes of Rafael Nadal and Sloane Stephens certainly had their day and their way with this event. That said, doubles and junior winners aplenty also netted big-stage championships. For one, Jean-Julien Rojer made his mark on this U.S. Open by way of a Statue of Liberty-themed shirt drenched in not just sweat—he got quite enough of that alongside Horia Tecau to win the men's doubles title—but in love for the United States, his home since age 12. Rojer's speech about the shirt during the pair's trophy ceremony cemented his sporting legacy.

Here's a look at a few more of the doubles, junior and wheelchair champs who left major impressions on Flushing Meadows:

Martina Hingis and Latisha Chan seized on a tantalizing opportunity to claim the women's doubles title by a decisive 6-3, 6-2 count. They clinched the title on, of all things, a Hingis forehand winner:

What's particularly intriguing about this pair is that Chan formerly played on tour with her sister, Angel, who celebrated not far from the tandem after they won the title—Hingis' 25th major crown overall, and Chan's first. All the more remarkable is that Hingis, alongside Jamie Murray, then faced off against Angel Chan and her partner Michael Venus in the mixed doubles final, prevailing 10-8 in the decider.

The junior ranks offered their own spellbinding stories at this tournament. Fifteen-year-old Whitney Osuigwe did not win the girls' title but, still, the 2017 French Open junior champ found herself featured in a New Yorker story about her rise; she went on record as saying that she idolizes Victoria Azarenka, admiring "the way she fights, and her hair." In the girls' championship itself, 16-year-old Amanda Anisimova snared her first major title just ahead of turning pro, and on her 10th match point, no less:

Because one good CoCo deserves another, Anisimova's last challenger, CoCo Gauff, became the youngest U.S. Open girls' finalist in history. She's just 13, and she's got an abundance of game:

More U.S. Open winners included these:

What's more, we learned about the inner workings of wheelchair tennis behind the scenes via a fascinating New York Times piece.

In this, we see tennis for what it is: truly the sport of opportunity.

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