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Fight! Old guy vs. young punk in the stands at the U.S. Open (WITH UPDATE)

Sep 3, 2010, 10:00 AM EST

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When a nice evening of tennis suddenly becomes a night at an Eagles-Giants game, we all win. Even Novak Djokovic and Philipp Petzschner stopped playing to watch the action in the stands at the U.S. Open in the upper deck at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The young guy, obviously addicted to the TV show Jersey Shore, sets the U.S. record for hand gestures during an argument. The woman tells him where young punks like him can stick it. And when young guy tells her that if she doesn’t like it, to go ahead and hit him (reportedly), she obliges. Old guy coming to her rescue succeeds in little more than taking a tumble down the stairs. So, who is more at fault? Videos from two angles, and what the police made of all this, following the jump.
Videos following the jump.



Here’s a video of the incident from a different angle (NSFW language):

Wait … young guys says “I got a lot of money on the game.”? What?
From the Washington Post:

Djokovic, who hails from Serbia, won, by the way, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (6).

“It was far away from the court; we couldn’t really see what was going on,” Djokovic said. “I hope it was no Serbian up there.”

According to the New York Post, the brawl stemmed from an issue over vocabulary. “He said, ‘You’ve got a problem? Go ahead and hit me,’ and she slapped him across the face,” a source told the Post.

All three fans were taken the 110th Precinct in Queens, Tim Curry, a spokesman for the United States Tennis Association, said. They were not charged; rather, they were given trespass warnings and told not to return to the Open for a certain amount of time, the New York Times reported (authorities were not aware of the duration).

Place your bets on who will be first on the network morning shows tomorrow.
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U.S. Open tennis brawl shows there’s no love lost among fans [Washington Post]
Fight night at the U.S. Open [New York Post]

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  1. Patracolos - Sep 3, 2010 at 9:31 PM

    The older gent did NOT defend the “lady”, they were all going back to their seats, and the old guy ATTACKED the younger one. Swearing in public is not a crime (and I looked very hard at the video and did not see any children {and really swears are just words, and remember that little ditty that your parents taught you about sticks and stones…})

  2. Patracolos - Sep 3, 2010 at 9:37 PM

    Swearing is not a crime. ******** It is here. The rest of your message has been deleted. ********

  3. Patracolos - Sep 3, 2010 at 9:42 PM

    Did the right thing? Really? He continued a fight (when the “lady struck the younger douche it became a fight) that was ending. Both the “lady” and the older gent assaulted the younger guy. They are at fault. They should have found security if he was being rude or obnoxious (they probably would have tossed him because it IS a tennis match). Nice that you agree that the best way to solve a problem is through violence.

  4. Jena - Sep 3, 2010 at 11:12 PM

    A fat woman with her black bra showing through her white tank top and her Daddy slapping people.
    If the guy was cussing, call security. You don’t antagonize someone who talks that way. They were looking for a fight and given she struck him first, she wanted too.
    Brawling at a tennis match; how white trash.

  5. Jena - Sep 3, 2010 at 11:14 PM

    The old guy got what he deserved. He hit first

  6. Smasher - Sep 4, 2010 at 12:50 AM

    NYers are NOT tough guys any more. That changed 30 years ago. Now they are garbage mouths and posers. The punk should have been clocked by whoever was closest. He would have taken the hit and called a lawyer. Very troubling.

  7. phill71 - Sep 4, 2010 at 6:35 AM

    Just another typical New York punk. No brains, so he has to fake it with attitude. No wonder visitors hate that town.

  8. Tim - Sep 4, 2010 at 7:25 AM

    I thought things like this only happened to me. I have been kicked out of sporting events like this before. So I know how things go wrong because your the younger of the two in the verbal fight; but I have never been hit. If I was that guy I would of gave her a slap back. If she is big enough to hit, she big enough to take one. All the fans in the crowd were cowards!!! So were the guys that grab the younger guy in the end. He didn’t do anything, it was the two older people. I am glad it wasn’t me because he was being attacked and he showed great control by not defending himself. The old man got what he deserve, and for the lady. She should of been the one on her back looking at the sky.

  9. The Butcher - Sep 4, 2010 at 7:46 AM

    To diffuse the situation (pardon the pun…) someone in the crowd should have stepped up. I personally would have thrown a chicken wing half-nelson combo on him and held him there until security showed up. This particular move allows you to whisper in his ear (things like “shhh…settle down girl”) while you have complete control of his movements. But I’m from Boston. That’s just how we roll.

  10. terry - Sep 4, 2010 at 8:22 AM

    I’m 66+, and the thought that after paying through the wahzoo for a ticket up in the nose-bleed seats – to ANY sporting event – I would have to listen to some foul mouthed young punk is the biggest reason that I am content to sit on my (fat) ass and watch from the safety of my living room.
    No I didn’t watch the video.

  11. foresttdog - Sep 4, 2010 at 9:42 AM

    Are people from NY embarrassed of themselves?

  12. FtLaud - Sep 4, 2010 at 9:57 PM

    Welcome to “Flushing Meadows Shore.” They’re all jerks. Leave it to the low rent NY/NJ trash to wreck a perfectly good evening in the nosebleed section of Arthur Ashe stadium. How the adjacent patrons put up with that crap for so long I’ll never know.

  13. BigMFan - Sep 4, 2010 at 10:03 PM

    One of these days some punk is going to pop off to a retired special ops soldier and get beat up by a thumb.

  14. Err - Sep 5, 2010 at 7:41 PM

    Props to the young guy, older people who think they’re always right just because of their age are beyond annoying, almost as annoying as the the woman in that clip. I was hoping he’d suckerpunch them both tbh.

  15. ramrod - Sep 10, 2010 at 6:14 PM

    trying listening to the video instead of just watching it. all three are responsible for what happened.

  16. DaHonkie - Sep 11, 2010 at 12:50 AM

    guess what color the trash collectors are at my house, and my last house, and my first house.

  17. John Que 3000 - Sep 15, 2010 at 2:50 PM

    NYC city is a concrete jungle of sex, violence and drugs. Get used to it!
    Flushing a city named after bathroom activity is no different.

  18. robin - Sep 16, 2010 at 5:58 PM

    …say what you want, but if the protagonists weren’t who/what they are and DO read between the lines here people, you can bet your ass that security would’ve been up there so fast hauling everyone off to jail, swinging their sticks, slapping on cuffs and asking questions later (maybe). That they were all given basically slaps on the wrist is just another slap to other people. And BTW, most tourists don’t hate NYC; I find that it’s the tourists (Europeans) who are more rude than the natives. And trust me, I see LOTS of tourists every day since I work near the Empire State Building. I work in the vicinity of the Empire State. They litter, they spit, they smoke everywhere (or at least try to) and they are very pushy, literally, and not mindful of other people’s personal space (i.e., they stand all over you when waiting on lines).

  19. robin - Sep 16, 2010 at 6:00 PM

    …say what you want, but if the protagonists weren’t who/what they are and DO read between the lines here people, you can bet your ass that security would’ve been up there so fast hauling everyone off to jail, swinging their sticks, slapping on cuffs and asking questions later (maybe). That they were all given basically slaps on the wrist is just another slap to other people. And BTW, most tourists don’t hate NYC; I find that it’s the tourists (Europeans) who are more rude than the natives. And trust me, I see LOTS of tourists every day since I work near the Empire State Building. I work in the vicinity of the Empire State. They litter, they spit, they smoke everywhere (or at least try to) and they are very pushy, literally, and not mindful of other people’s personal space (i.e., they stand all over you when waiting on lines).

  20. Guyser - Sep 20, 2010 at 7:19 PM

    I go along with Butcher – that little puke had a beatdown coming and I laughed when the old man started to toss him. Too bad the old gent lost his balance. If I’d been one row behind, that little Joisey turd would have been faced with a lesson in manners and respect to his betters and elders. Oh – I figure I’m only about 10 years older than him, so save the “gosh, old people are MEAN and always think they’re right,” you whiny crybabies… (talking to you, ERR.)
    BTW Butcher – Boston ain’t got nothin’ to do with it. I know people from Boston, and y’all roll just like the rest of us.

  21. Jason B - Sep 22, 2010 at 3:02 PM

    Where do you think the Young Punk learned his language??? It was the Old Dogs that taught him his tricks.

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