US Open files $1m mixed doubles trophy in lost property
Karolína Muchová and Jakub Menšík beat Bencic and Cobolli for $1m while staff treated the title like a returned umbrella
"...leave the trophy by the bins, we still have contact under seat three," a court supervisor yelled.
He waved Karolína Muchová and Jakub Menšík toward the tunnel after they won the US Open mixed doubles on Wednesday night.
The Czech pair had beaten Belinda Bencic and Flavio Cobolli for $1m. Staff filed the title with the lost umbrellas.
...leave the trophy by the bins, we still have contact under seat three
Then the aisle became the front. Three ushers moved in a stack down row three while a supervisor marked time on his watch. One man went prone, reached the dark under the seat, and tore out a scuffed ball. They held it up to the empty bowl of Arthur Ashe like a captured flag. Nobody looked at the mixed doubles champions.
A runner pressed a subway map into Muchová's hand and told Menšík the trophy would be in lost property in the morning.
