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👋Good morning. Sunday mornings have a rhythm to them — slower coffee, longer scroll, the faint sense that the week hasn't quite started yet. But out at Flushing Meadows, the quiet is about to end: Fan Week wrapped up yesterday, and today the U.S. Open's main draw begins in earnest, $108 million in prize money and a global audience waiting on the other side of the net. There's something familiar in that build-up — the practice courts, the qualifiers, the last calm breath before the real competition starts — because business felt exactly the same yesterday. Oil deals, AI feuds and billion-dollar settlements were all doing their own version of warming up, testing the string tension before the first serve. Here's everything that happened while you were (hopefully) resting up for the week ahead.
