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On Tennis: Making American Men’s Tennis Great Again May Take Time

On Tommy Haas’s Twitter page, in an Aug. 22 posting to his roughly 157,000 followers, he wrote: “Make America great again. Thoughts? Suggestions?”

He was not talking about what it might take for an American man to contend soon for a United States Open championship, much less win it.

Click on the accompanying link, and there is Haas, at 37 the oldest man in this year’s men’s draw at the Open, in a photograph with the Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump.

The photo is from a meeting four years ago, Haas said Monday.