For the past four years, a significant minority of U.S. Open tennis ticket buyers who live in New Jersey and who like to wager on the matches through legal, mobile sportsbooks have known the drill – get your bets in before you leave, because New York had yet to approve such gambling online.
But this year, no such pre-trip planning has been necessary, since the Empire State back in January finally launched mobile sports betting.
You’d never know it, however, from walking around the expansive grounds of the tournament in Queens. That’s because even in an ambitious marketing environment that features a booth where free samples of the “Official Sunscreen Of The U.S. Open” were being handed out, the new era of New York gambling was nowhere to be found during US Bets‘ visit on Labor Day.
