NYCs only tennis bar infuriates fans for playing football, muting TVs during US Open womens semifinals

This bar served up a major error.The self-proclaimed first tennis bar in the Big Apple stirred a racket on Thursday by prioritizing its weekly trivia night and return of NFL football over the nail-biting US Open women’s semifinals.The East Village’s Thirty Love muted all of its TVs for a game — enraging tennis fans who wanted to hear the commentary and the players “grunt.”“The theory was that when we came here it would be very tennis-centric, there would be a lot of tennis fans, and we would all be cheering on the game, and find like-minded people and connect and all that … We’re missing out.I am a little disappointed,” said Haley O’Neill, 39, an attorney from Texas.O’Neill and a friend had trekked to the bar to watch Aryna Sabalenka defeat Jessica Pegula after hearing chatter about the tennis-focused venue in Central Park’s tennis crowd, but quickly packed up after realizing Thursday’s match wasn’t a priority at the watering hole.Football was being played on the bar’s lower level, while trivia was being conducted upstairs — and to drive the knife in deeper, the game wasn’t even tennis-themed.“This is a tennis-themed sports bar in New York called Thirty Love, and they have chosen to leave trivia on tonight when there are two women’s semifinals going on, and they have also chosen to put football on the television.

Need I say more?” said O’Neill.“I would definitely consider it better if I could hear Sabalenka grunt … We’re missing out.

I am a little disappointed.” Thirty Love, which opened in February, had been advertising itself as the ideal spot to watch the US Open this year, even offering their own versions of the US Open’s signature Honey Deuces during the two-week tournament.But on Thursday, the biggest television in the tennis-themed sports bar played the Cowboys and Eagles game, while the smaller screens played the US Open.None of the TVs had sound on — with the only noise coming from trivia and loud mu...