Tuesday night was packed with three major events for New York-area sports fans: important pennant-race games involving the Mets and the Yankees, and the quarterfinal match between Venus and Serena Williams at the United States Open.
Tennis overwhelmed each of the baseball games as Serena Williams took one more step toward winning the Grand Slam with her three-set victory over her sister Venus. Their match was seen by just over one million viewers in the New York market from 8:15 to 10:15 p.m. Eastern time and it was part of a longer prime-time block of U.