NEW YORK: There are the champions - awe-inspiring performers who sell tickets and put bums on seats; then there are the crowd favourites - characters extraordinaire, that make a script sizzle.
Carlos Alcaraz and Gael Monfils gave Flushing Meadows an evening to remember, finishing on opposite ends of the score-line in second-round matches on Arthur Ashe and Grandstand courts at the US Open.
