The 1959 U.S. National Championships (now known as the US Open) took place on the outdoor grass courts at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills in New York, USA. The tournament ran from 4 September until 13 September. It was the 79th staging of the U.S. National Championships, and the fourth Grand Slam tennis event of the year.
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“The national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us ordering God about to do our political dirty work.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)