{"id":13992,"date":"2025-08-24T11:33:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13992"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:37:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:37:02","slug":"honey-deuce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/24\/honey-deuce\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey Deuce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/the-honey-deuce-effect-how-tennis-perfected-the-signature-cocktail\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=The%20Honey%20Deuce%20Effect&amp;utm_content=The%20Honey%20Deuce%20Effect+Version+B+CID_412c823871e6ba6ccc400b721a7723a5&amp;utm_source=FOS%20Daily%20Newsletter&amp;utm_term=The%20Honey%20Deuce%20Effect%20How%20Tennis%20Perfected%20the%20Signature%20Cocktail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Front Office Sports<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Honey Deuce Effect: How Tennis Perfected the Signature Cocktail<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The US Open\u2019s famous cocktail brings in more than $12 million. But its success, and that of its counterparts, is measured in more than sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/author\/hilarygp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HILARY GEORGE-PARKIN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The origin of the U.S. Open&#039;s Honey Deuce\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T2TBRM5b1go?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Susan Czeterko Jordan has a shrine to a cocktail. In her apartment, a delicate watercolor print of the Honey Deuce, the signature drink of the US Open, hangs above a cabinet stuffed with commemorative plastic cups. She amassed the collection throughout more than a decade of attending the New York City tennis tournament, each time making a beeline for the blush-pink beverage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s refreshing, and it\u2019s a status symbol,\u201d she says. \u201cSometimes they even run out of cups by the end of the night.\u201d When she got married, the number-one item on her registry was a melon baller so she could replicate the cocktail\u2019s signature garnish: a trio of honeydew melon \u201ctennis ball\u201d spheres.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/the-honey-deuce-effect-how-tennis-perfected-the-signature-cocktail\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=The%20Honey%20Deuce%20Effect&amp;utm_content=The%20Honey%20Deuce%20Effect+Version+B+CID_412c823871e6ba6ccc400b721a7723a5&amp;utm_source=FOS%20Daily%20Newsletter&amp;utm_term=The%20Honey%20Deuce%20Effect%20How%20Tennis%20Perfected%20the%20Signature%20Cocktail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at FOS<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Front Office Sports The Honey Deuce Effect: How Tennis Perfected the Signature Cocktail The US Open\u2019s famous cocktail brings in more than $12 million. But its success, and that of its counterparts, is measured in more than sales. BY\u00a0HILARY GEORGE-PARKIN Susan Czeterko Jordan has a shrine to a cocktail. In her apartment, a delicate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}