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With temps in 90s, fans try to keep cool at U.S. Open

Two boys put their hands in a fountain

Photo credit: Newsday/ J. Conrad Williams Jr. | Two boys put their hands in a fountain at the U.S. Open during a blistering hot day of tennis. (Sept. 2010)

Veteran U.S. Open fans at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center said they couldn't recall a year with more heat and humidity.

"To me, it's hotter than it has been in Florida," said Jo Ann Stephens of Melbourne, Fla., who was among the 59,073 crowding the tennis center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Wednesday.

"It's the hottest Open I've been to and I've been coming for 30...

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