“The stray bullet was just one of a number of bizarre occurrences that defined the ’77 Open, its final run at the normally genteel West Side Tennis Club. Those two weeks in Forest Hills included a transgender controversy, mutinous fans, appalling breaches of etiquette and a jerry-built racket strung with Venetian-blind cord that threatened to upend the whole event. Thirty-five years on, it remains the wildest Open ever played.” (via The Chaotic Spectacle of the 1977 U.S. Open - NYTimes.com)