# Radice and Jongens Posted US Open Credentials at the National Tennis Center

> USTA stripped the media credentials before they reached a court.

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Beat: leisure
Published: September 4, 2026
Source title: US Open influencers kicked out after posting credentials 'to show how hot we looked'
Source URL: https://nypost.com/2026/09/04/sports/us-open-influencers-kicked-out-after-posting-credentials-to-show-how-hot-they-are/
Tags: radice, jongens, us-open, usta

## Article

Meg Radice and Audrey Jongens posted the credentials at the National Tennis Center, slapping physical USTA media badges onto Instagram Stories so the internet could admire how hot they looked in borrowed authority. Those two did not come to cover a tournament. They came to wear a tournament. The pair turned a working press pass into a nightclub stamp and a diehard media act, then security read the Stories and killed the access in roughly two hours. They found out over steak and Honey Deuces at a partner restaurant, still chewing while the first ball happened without them and the credentials were already garbage. The pair wanted a clout-pass flex and handed the building a security problem, waving laminated access at strangers as if the National Tennis Center were a fitting room. Those two played press without doing press and got yeeted before a single rally. The monument left standing is the court they never reached.

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