US Open prepares for royalty as Meghan Markle expected to watch Serena Williams in final – USA TODAY

FLUSHING MEADOWS, N.Y. — Alert the paparazzi. Beef up the protection ingredient. Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, is coming to the U.S. Birth on Saturday.

Markle took a business flight from London to Fresh York on Friday to reach in time for the females’s final Saturday afternoon, hoping to leer her excellent buddy, Serena Williams, remove her myth-tying 24th most major tennis title in the championship match in opposition to Canadian teen Bianca Andreescu, per a out of the ordinary alternative of experiences.

“We’re overjoyed that she’s becoming a member of us,” said Chris Widmaier, the USTA’s managing director, corporate communications. “It’s a level of pleasure and electrical energy to an already electric match.”

Markle will seemingly be sitting in Williams’ player’s box in the corner of Arthur Ashe Stadium, a person familiar with the plans suggested USA TODAY Sports. The person turn out to be granted anonymity because they were now not authorized to discuss publicly about Markle’s arrangements.

The Duchess additionally turn out to be on the Wimbledon final, which Williams lost to Romania’s Simona Halep.

“I’m certain our safety folks are alive to along with her safety folks so everything is copacetic,” the person said. 

Williams and Markle met at a Orderly Bowl celebration in 2010 and their friendship has blossomed since. Williams and her husband Alexis Ohanian were traffic at Meghan and Prince Harry’s marriage ceremony in the summertime of 2018.

Megastar sightings are a total incidence on the Birth, belief to be one of the major field’s richest carrying events, producing bigger than $350 million yearly and paying virtually $4 million to the males’s and females’s singles champion.

Tiger Woods, Queen Latifah and Kobe Bryant have all been in attendance at this 12 months’s tournament, however the Royal Family will invent its debut Saturday.

Practice Wayne Coffey on Twitter @wr_coffey