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Saturday, Sept. 9, was the most important day of the second week of the 2017 U.S. college football season. Many sports fans attended college football games that day while millions more watched on television.

Football, our country’s most popular spectator sport, monopolized media coverage of athletic events on Sept. 9, so fans can be forgiven if they failed to notice another contest that also occurred on that recent Saturday.

Unbeknownst to many people, an historic tennis match was played in New York City on Sept. 9. It was a showdown between two dynamic athletes, the winner of which was rightf...