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  Sea Philly offers an exclusive private boat experience, setting sail as Philadelphia's premier choice. Our services encompass the chartering of a meticulously restored all-wood Chris Craft, accommodating up to six guests.

Immerse yourself in the splendor of a captivating river cruise that showcases the city's picturesque views, or indulge in the allure of our romantic sunset cruises. By choosing Sea Philly, you become a part of our mission to rediscover the Delaware River, a body of water recognized as the 2020 River of the Year by American Rivers, applauding its remarkable resurgence in water quality.

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Enjoy a 1.5 - 4 hour private cruise for up to six guests. Catering is available, ask us about our preferred partners.

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Our private dock doubles as an intimate event space for corporate events, weddings, and photoshoots. The space accommodates a max of 45 guests

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• 401 S. Columbus Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19106
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For decades, the Spirit of Philadelphia has provided a unique combination of dining, dancing, entertainment and incredible views on the Delaware River.

Operating year round from Penn’s Landing, the Spirit of Philadelphia offers lunch, dinner, moonlight and special-event cruises.

While aboard, guests enjoy contemporary food stations and unparalleled views of Philadelphia’s skyline set to a lively soundtrack of Top 40 hits and old school favorites.

Whether for a special occasion, a romantic night out or a new adventure, Spirit Cruises are a uniquely entertaining way experience Philadelphia.

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Guests can can also book a cruise aboard the Freedom Elite , the Spirit of Philadelphia ’s sister ship and Philadelphia’s most exclusive private yacht.

An amazing backdrop for any event, the Freedom Elite features fine cuisine, exceptional service and sensational views from the historic Delaware River.

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The  Visit Philly Overnight Package — booked more than 190,000 times since 2001 — comes with free hotel parking (worth up to $100 in Center City Philadelphia), overnight hotel accommodations and choose-your-own-adventure perks.

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Host your next school outing on the water aboard a unique floating venue with exceptional views of Philadelphia’s historic waterfront and skyline! City Cruises offers a safe space for Elementary, Middle School and High School students, and University events, student-friendly menu options, entertainment, and all-inclusive packages that can be customized to fit your budget. From educational field trips to proms, and faculty outings, your school will love our friendly service, climate-controlled interior, and open-air outdoor decks. Show your students a new side of the city with incredible Philadelphia skyline views from the Delaware River!

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City Cruises offers a unique floating event venue with all-inclusive packages, chef-prepared menus, and the option of a full bar, all while providing customizable entertainment to suit your needs. Whether it's for corporate events, social gatherings, weddings, or educational outings, City Cruises promises an exceptional experience on the water. Specifically for school events, they offer a safe space with student-friendly menu choices, entertainment, and customizable all-inclusive packages for Elementary & Middle School, High School, and University events. The cruises also provide climate-controlled interiors and open-air decks, allowing students to enjoy picturesque views of Philadelphia's iconic landmarks from the Delaware River.

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Host your next scout troop/council outing on the water aboard a unique floating venue with exceptional views of Philadelphia’s historic waterfront and skyline! City Cruises offers a safe space for your scout events, friendly menu options, entertainment, and all-inclusive packages that can be customized to fit your budget. From educational field trips to scout councils celebrations, you will love our friendly service, climate-controlled interior, and open-air outdoor decks. Show your scouts a new side of the city with incredible Philadelphia skyline views from the Delaware River!

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Host your next camp outing on the water aboard a unique floating venue with exceptional views of Philadelphia’s historic waterfront and skyline! City Cruises offers a safe space for your camper outings, friendly menu options, entertainment, and all-inclusive packages that can be customized to fit your budget. From educational field trips to reunions or end of the camp season celebrations, you will love our friendly service, climate-controlled interior, and open-air outdoor decks. Show your campers a new side of the city with incredible Philadelphia skyline views from the Delaware River!

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Host your next home school outing on the water aboard a unique floating venue with exceptional views of Philadelphia’s historic waterfront and skyline! City Cruises offers a safe space for your home school student events, student-friendly menu options, entertainment, and all-inclusive packages that can be customized to fit your budget. From educational field trips to proms, and home school association members outings, your home school association will love our friendly service, climate-controlled interior, and open-air outdoor decks. Show your home school students a new side of the city with incredible Philadelphia skyline views from the Delaware River!

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Philadelphia City Cruises is an ideal choice for family celebrations, events, and remarkable dining cruises with breathtaking skyline views. It serves as the perfect venue for family outings, allowing you to explore the iconic landmarks of the city and provide your kids with a fresh perspective of Philadelphia, featuring incredible views of its historic waterfront and skyline.

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Make this birthday extra special and celebrate on the water! Our team of professionals will help plan an unforgettable event with all-inclusive packages, chef-prepared menus, and exceptional service. Whether you're celebrating your Sweet 16, Quinceañera, Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah, or any other milestone birthday celebration, revel in the picture-perfect backdrops of Philadelphia. While enjoying a unique and memorable way to commemorate these important milestones. Birthdays are better on the water!

City Cruises offers a unique floating event venue with all-inclusive packages, chef-prepared menus, and the option of a full bar, all while providing customizable entertainment to suit your needs. Whether it's for family outings, corporate events, social gatherings, weddings, or educational outings, City Cruises promises an exceptional experience on the water. Specifically for school events, they offer a safe space with student-friendly menu choices, entertainment, and customizable all-inclusive packages for Elementary & Middle School, High School, and University events. The cruises also provide climate-controlled interiors and open-air decks, allowing students to enjoy picturesque views of Philadelphia's iconic landmarks from the Delaware River.

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Enjoy Bottomless Mimosas & Brunch Aboard The Spirit Of Philadelphia While You Cruise The Charming Delaware River

City Cruises is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Spirit of Philadelphia by offering exciting brunch and dinner cruises.

Kick-off the summer season with an exciting cruise along the charming Delaware River. The iconic Spirit of Philadelphia turns 40 and they’re celebrating with exciting brunch and dinner cruises all season long.

The Spirit of Philadelphia Turns 40

For over four decades , the Spirit of Philadelphia has been operating from Penn’s Landing, providing a one-of-a-kind dining experience for its guests. City Cruises Philadelphia plans to celebrate the Spirit of Philadelphia’s 40th anniversary and kick off the season with an amazing lineup of cruises.

“We have been honored to be a part of the Philadelphia community for 40 years. We have hosted thousands of weddings, corporate events, proms, and field trips, and have been the backdrop for countless engagements, graduations, and anniversaries,” says Ryan O’Connor, General Manager of City Cruises Philadelphia. “Everyone I meet locally has a Spirit of Philadelphia memory.”

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Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Philly’s favorite vessel! Join in on the celebration by attending one of the upcoming dining cruises to kick off the spring and summer seasons. Specifically, cruise options include the Signature Bottomless Mimosa Brunch Cruise .

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• 2 hour cruise time
• brunch buffet
• unlimited mimosas for guests 21 & older
• scenic views of Philadelphia

Or, book the Signature Dinner Cruise , which includes

• 2.5-3 hour cruise time
• dinner buffet
• alcoholic drinks available for purchase

Indeed, this is a perfect way to enjoy Philly’s historic waterfront and stunning views with family, friends, or a significant other. Moreover, both of which are available every weekend!

About The Spirit Of Philadelphia

The Spirit of Philadelphia is a three-level yacht-style dining vessel with three interior climate-controlled dining decks and an exterior observation deck. The three decks are appropriately named to reflect the vessel’s namesake – the Ben Franklin deck, the Walt Whitman deck, and the Betsy Ross deck.

All Philadelphia City Cruises vessels depart from Penn’s Landing, located at 401 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

For more information on the Spirit of Philadelphia, upcoming cruises, or to book a group event , visit their website here .

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The ultimate Philadelphia Sunset Cruise! The evening then turns magical as you cruise the calm waters and watch the bright lights of the city come alive. Our peaceful sunset cruises on the Delaware River are a unique Philadelphia experience and for many it turns into a very romantic excursion – especially with a visit to our fully-stocked bar to set the mood. For others, it is a great way to catch up with friends, unwind after a day’s work, or relax before heading out on the town for dinner, a show, or a visit to Spruce Street Harbor Park. Although our sunset cruise is not narrated, our crew always answers any questions you have!

During our Delaware River sunset cruise you experience the following sights:

• The historic vessels of Penn’s Landing including the Olympia and Mushulu;
• The tallship Gazela, the Ben Franklin Bridge and Philadelphia’s Race Street Pier;
• The Camden Waterfront including the Battleship New Jersey, the Adventure Aquarium and Campbell’s Field;
• The working waterfronts of Philadelphia and Camden; and
• Other historic vessels and commercial vessels located in the Port of Philadelphia.

All of our yachts serve beer, wine, and mixed drinks during our cruises. Join us for a cruise on Philadelphia’s often overlooked Delaware River! Your attitude and perception of Philadelphia as a great river town will probably change as you experience PhillyByBoat from a new perspective.

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We depart from the Seaport Museum dock at Penn’s Landing. The dock is attached to the Seaport boat shop at the North end of the marina adjacent to the Hilton Hotel. The Seaport Museum’s street address is 211 South Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Please plan to arrive at the dock at least 15 minutes before our scheduled departure time. We cannot wait for late arrivals.

Penn’s Landing has several surface parking lots that cost approximately $20 to park. Another option is to park at the Hilton Hotel. There is also metered parking that is free on Sundays in the vicinity of Penn’s Landing.

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Additional tickets available for battleship's departure day cruise

If watching the Battleship New Jersey depart from Camden this spring isn't exciting enough, there's a new opportunity to consider — cruising alongside it. And if you missed the first round of tickets, you have another shot.

About five hundred tickets were originally sold to cruise on the Spirit of Philadelphia, which sold out. Now, an additional ship is being added to the roster.

One hundred seats are available for a departure day cruise on the Rendezvous, managed by City Cruises.

Tickets for the two-hour cruise will run for $110, and a portion of the price will go to the dry dock project.

Enjoy a lunch aboard the boat including entrees, salads, desserts and full bar service available for purchase while watching the battleship's journey from the ship's climate-controlled interior or open-air outdoor deck.

More: Want to tour the Battleship New Jersey in Philly? Here's how to get tickets

The cruise will board at 11 a.m. and launch from Penn's Landing at 11:30 a.m. on March 21 in anticipation of the battleship's 12:10 p.m. departure from its Camden pier.

Keep in mind, the cruise will board and launch from Philadelphia prior to the departure celebrations taking place in Camden.

Tickets can be purchased on the Battleship New Jersey's website .

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Triple shooting in Center City Philadelphia culminates violent weekend

A shooting near 11th and ludlow streets in center city late sunday, june 2, 2024, left 3 people hurt, philadelphia police said, by dan stamm • published june 3, 2024 • updated on june 3, 2024 at 9:32 am.

Three people were shot in Center City Philadelphia Sunday night, culminating a violent weekend in the city that left at least two dead and several hurt.

Philadelphia police officers joined police from nearby Jefferson University Hospital in responding to a shooting in the area of 11th and Ludlow streets -- a short distance from Market Street -- just before 11:30 p.m. on June 2, 2024, Philadelphia Police Capt. Anthony Ganard said.

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Police found three gunshot victims at the scene, Ganard said. A 42-year-old woman was shot in the pelvis and arm, a 53-year-old woman was shot in her knee and a 22-year-old man was hit twice in his arm.

The 42-year-old woman was upgraded to critical but stable condition at the hospital overnight, police said. The other two victims were listed in stable condition at the hospital.

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Police found that at least four shots were fired during what witnesses described as "some sort of argument or dispute," Ganard said.

There are additional resources for people or communities that have endured gun violence in Philadelphia.  Further information can be found here.

Police said they would look at surveillance cameras as they searched for whoever pulled the trigger. As of Monday morning they only had a vague description of the shooter.

This shooting culminated a violent weekend in Philadelphia where at least two people were killed and several other hurt.

Deadly shootings rock Philadelphia over weekend

On Saturday night at least four people were shot along South 58th Street, nears Cobbs Creek, in Southwest Philadelphia, police said. A man in his 20s died in that shooting.

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Later on Saturday, police said that at three people were shot -- leaving a young man dead -- in what was described as road rage shooting near the intersection of Grays Avenue and South 62nd Street in Southwest Philadelphia.

There was also another shooting in Southwest Philadelphia Friday night where a man was shot several times at the intersection of 58th and Ellsworth streets.

These deadly shootings took place as overall homicides in Philadelphia are down around 38% from the same time last year, according to Philadelphia police data. Entering Monday, at least 109 homicides had been reported in Philadelphia. that's the lowest year-to-date homicide total since 2016.

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Updated on: June 2, 2024 / 11:18 AM EDT / CBS Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- This June, Philadelphia will mark 52 years since the city's first Gay Pride Parade. As one of the country's largest pride festivals, the City of Brotherly Love has lots in store for 2024.

The upcoming march and festival will feature America's largest rainbow pride flag, which measures 400 feet long. The celebration will also have its first-ever headliner in RuPaul's Drag Race finalist Sapphira Cristal , and feature the most businesses in event history.

If you're heading to Philly Pride, here's what you need to know.

When is the Philly Pride parade and festival?

The Philadelphia Pride March and Festival will take place Sunday, June 2, 2024. The march begins near Washington Square Park in Center City and ends in Philly's Midtown Village neighborhood, aka the Gayborhood.

Where does the Philadelphia Pride march start and end?

The march begins at 10:30 a.m. at 6th and Walnut streets and continues northbound on 6th to Walnut, westbound on Walnut to 10th, southbound on 10th to Locust and ends at 1100 Locust Street. 

Where is the pride festival?

The Pride festival begins at noon Sunday immediately following the 2024 march. The festival continues until 7 p.m. Sunday and will be centered around 13th and Locust streets, featuring hundreds of food vendors, artists, community groups, bars and more.

What is the theme for Philly Pride 2024?

The theme for the 2024 Philadelphia Pride March and Festival is "Be You." 

According to Philly Pride 365, this year's march is also "an ode to the Reminder Day Demonstrations that were held in front of Independence Hall on Chestnut Street from 1965 until 1969 to raise awareness of bigotry, prejudice, and discrimination toward the LGBTQ+ community and to send the message that 'Gay is good.'"

The march will start with speeches from community leaders, guests and a land acknowledgment from the Lenape Tribe.

How to get to the march and festival

Because street parking around the march and festival is limited, and multiple road closures will be in place, attendees are encouraged to use public transportation.

Several SEPTA bus routes will drop riders off near the march's starting line, and SEPTA's Market-Frankford Line stops at the 5th Street Independence Hall station.

For those just attending the festival, the Walnut Locust station on the Broad Street Line stops just a few blocks from 13th and Locust.

Road closures for the Philly Pride March and Festival

More than a dozen road closures will go be effect from 5 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Sunday, June 2. The following streets will be posted as "Temporary No Parking" zones during that time:

• Juniper Street from Walnut Street to Cypress Street
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• 13th Street from Walnut Street to Pine Street
• 12th Street from Walnut Street to Pine Street
• Quince Street from Walnut Street to Pine Street
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• Spruce Street from Juniper Street to 11th Street
• Chancellor Street from Juniper Street to 12th Street
• St. James Street from 13th Street to 12th Street
• S. Camac Street from Walnut Street to Pine Street
• Irving Street from Juniper Street to 13th Street
• Schubert Alley from S. Camac Street 12th Street
• Manning Street from S. Camac Street to 12th Street  

SEPTA bus routes will be detoured from their normal routes starting at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday because of these closures through about 8 p.m.

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Maria Grazia Chiuri became Maria Queen of Scots — for a day — raising an army of models dressed in lace, black velvet and tartan, and letting them loose in the grand, Italianate gardens at Scotland’s 15th century Drummond Castle.

She had fortune on her side. It usually rains during the Dior resort shows, no matter where they take place, but Monday’s skies were blue and blazing with sunshine — a minor miracle in Scotland, which is even rainier than England. The evening was chilly, but that’s Scotland, and there was no room for compliant. The rain is set to return on Tuesday.

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In a wink to all those wet shows, various versions of the Eurythmics’ “Here Comes the Rain Again” played as models strode around the geometric paths and mazes of the gardens.

Chiuri had been wanting to stage a show in Scotland for years, and for myriad reasons. She was keen to carry on the Dior tradition, learn more about the local textiles, and pursue her women’s history studies.

The collection was inspired, in part, by Clare Hunter, the textile expert and author of “Embroidering Her Truth: Mary Queen of Scots and the Language of Power.” Chiuri also worked closely with her friend Justine Picardie, who wrote “Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture,” to explore Christian Dior’s ties with Scotland.

She pored over behind-the-scenes, black-and-white images from the 1955 spring Dior show, which took place in the ballroom of the Gleneagles Hotel, and used the images as patches on a cape coat, and on the T-shirts and printed bags and blankets that Dior handed out to guests at the show.

Chiuri, who’d only been to Scotland a few times before she began work on the collection, was captivated by the romance of it all.

“The country is very cinematic and so present in our imagination,” she said during a preview at her temporary studio in Edinburgh, an hour’s ride from Drummond Castle.

“It’s poetic, romantic and like a fairy tale place with all the castles. Think about how the outdoor culture of the country has influenced designers like Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen — to name a few. I wasn’t surprised that Mr. Dior was fascinated by this country and its textiles,” she added.

Chiuri channeled her own fascination into a handsome, wearable collection that was made from hard and soft elements, fit for warriors and regal ladies alike. Minidresses had stiff sculptural skirts nodding to suits of armor, while sparkling knits dotted with sparkles resembled chain mail. The Elizabethan puff sleeves on sheer tops were the ultimate in power shoulders.

Footwear was ferocious, fit for battle — or for fly fishing. Models in the most delicate of creamy lace dresses walked in black stompy boots, some with lots of hardware, unzipped wellies, or tall waders with saucy garter strap details.

One flat, square-toed style with thick buckled straps resembled a ballet shoe, and gave some of the long, romantic dresses a monastic edge.

“Mary Stuart’s wardrobe mixed very fragile lace with velvet, and there was a dialogue between very different materials,” said Chiuri, referring to Mary Queen of Scots. “So in the show we mixed together sportswear with fragile materials. Corsets act like accessories, while cotton and wool fabrics come with embroideries.”

There were contrasts from top to bottom. Some models’ braided hair was threaded with gold studs, while others wore delicate veils dotted with sparkles that resembled tears, courtesy of Stephen Jones.

Chiuri visited Scotland multiple times over the last few months, making trips to Johnstons of Elgin weaving mill; examining Esk Cashmere’s Fair Isle and other traditional knitwear designs; and delving into the archives at Robert Mackie, which makes ceremonial headwear worn by the Scottish military regiments.

She flew to the Outer Hebrides to watch how Harris tweed woolens are made (by artisans, often farmers, who weave in their homes on treadle looms) and worked with the collective on a special tartan for the collection, in colors of the Scottish countryside, such as green, yellow and violet.

Those tartans opened the show: some resembled blankets wrapped around the body and were secured with belts and harnesses, while others came as draped skirt suits with fringed edges. They had a wild feel to them, while other long tartan skirts had parachute and toggle details and a waft of punk.

Chiuri loves the idea of a kilt as the original multipurpose garment. “It’s like the sari, or the toga. It’s one piece, like a blanket secured with a belt. It was the first way that different cultures dressed themselves — with a single textile,” she said.

Chiuri tapped local designer Samantha McCoach of the brand Le Kilt to create a dedicated design for the show, inspired by the moss and the various green shoots from the Scottish countryside. She also put her own spin on the classic shape, creating dark cotton “working” kilts — long or short — with pockets and contrast stitching.

She even dashed up a few for the men on her team. “There’s a very famous song in Italy about women wanting to see men in skirts,” said Chiuri with a big laugh.

Her men, she said, “are working backstage and it’s a good solution, right? It’s better than carrying a bag! I even had a kilt made for myself — it means your hands are free and you can run.” The Dior men (including Jones) embraced the look, teaming their kilts with argyle socks and black loafers, or with Converse high tops. Nobody seemed to be complaining.

“Next, I want to do a calendar, with all my men wearing their kilts,” said Chiuri, the queen in full command of her army.

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Novak Djokovic: French Open withdrawal reminds us of inevitability of time

This story has been updated to reflect Novak Djokovic’s withdrawal from the French Open on Tuesday June 4.

It’s the question that lingers over the final years of the all-time greats, especially in an individual sport where no one cuts them and no one steals their job. It’s up to them to decide when enough is enough. 

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What they have less control over: will the end come slowly, or all at once? 

In this era of men’s tennis that has been unlike any other, it looked like there was an eerie pattern developing for the three best players that was starting to make the answer seem as unavoidable as the lines that deepen on any forehead over time.

It happened to Roger Federer, and then it happened to Rafael Nadal, and from the looks of Monday’s morose late afternoon on Court Philippe-Chatrier, it figured to be happening to Novak Djokovic , too, at a miserable moment.

Just when it seemed like he had jettisoned a five-month funk in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday morning in Paris , Djokovic seemed to be falling into the kind of mundane-yet-freak injury that always seems to arrive in a career’s twilight.

It was early in the second set during his round-of-16 match against 23rd seed Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina. He didn’t trip over a line or crash awkwardly into a line judge. 

After a few weeks of soreness from the wear and tear of two decades of professional tennis, and the impact of a 3am finish, a little slip was all it took. Djokovic asked officials if they would brush the courts more often to spread the clay and cover up the slick spots — as he had done in that late-night epic against Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti — but was rebuffed. Two dozen Grand Slam titles will only get you so far.

One moment he was doing the same sideways and backwards pivoting across the red clay that he has done since he was a small boy learning tennis in the low mountains of Serbia. The next he was clutching at his right knee and motioning to his team with two hands going in different directions, seemingly telling them that one part of his joint had gone one way, while the other had gone another.  

Soon a trainer was on the court treating him, lying him on the ground, trying to ease the tension around the knee. He took some anti-inflammatories, but when Djokovic returned to the court, it quickly became apparent that he could no longer move — and not move like something even close to a world-class player, just really move at all.

Three or four or five careful steps followed every stretch for a ball. Often, he just watched shots dart past him from a few feet away without giving chase. So many of them, he would have put back and even put away on nearly any other day, chasing across the court with the ferocity that, for a while now, no one else has been able to match. 

“At one point I didn’t know, to be honest, whether I should continue or not with what’s happening,” he said.

He continued through the match, but could not continue through the knee problem. The following afternoon, the world No. 1 withdrew from the tournament, citing a tear to the medial meniscus in his right knee. No decision has been made on surgery, but the layoff in any case will be several weeks, putting his chase for an eighth Wimbledon title and that elusive Olympic medal in doubt. Then there’s the question of the recovery from the recovery. He’ll repair the tear. Whether he can repair his game? Maybe he can. But that’s not how it went for Nadal, Federer or Andy Murray.

Federer ultimately fell to the degenerative after-effects of surgery to repair a torn meniscus while running a bath for his children. That’s right, nothing more than a twist following the run of a faucet, multiple surgeries and then ultimately an ugly, dispiriting afternoon at Wimbledon in 2021 that ended with him barely able to move during a final set that ended with no games for him and six for Hubert Hurkacz.

A year later, he announced he was done.

All Nadal was doing was sprinting across the backcourt during a second-round match at the Australian Open in 2023.

One moment, running for a bull-whip forehand as a defending champion. The next, pulling up as if he’d been shot, playing as Djokovic did on Monday, limping through the final sets, somehow managing to win games he had no business winning at half-speed with tears in his hip — and then missing a year of tennis.

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Murray’s hip simply gave way after so many years of pounding and sprinting and sliding, unable to withstand one more punishing match at this very tournament against Stan Wawrinka in 2017. In the run-up to their meeting at Roland Garros this year, Murray said he couldn’t sleep with pain after the match, that he knew somewhere in his mind that, despite being able to complete the match, he had done something more terminal. Without hip resurfacing surgery, his career would have been done.

He and Nadal are still making a go of it after those major surgeries and long layoffs. Both lost in straight sets as unseeded floaters at this French Open, a shadow of the players they once were.

Monday, life in the mid-late 30s came for Djokovic. He has already defied time as no one else, winning three Grand Slam titles last year and, in the Wimbledon final, likely coming within a floating forehand he rarely misses of a fourth. He stretched his record career slam count to 24. He finished the year as the world No 1 for a record eighth time.  

Only a fool would have argued that he couldn’t keep rolling this year, even knowing he would turn 37 two weeks ago. His closest competitors spoke of him like he was some other sort of species. When would he stop smothering them? Most of them had some version of the same answer: when he decided he didn’t want to anymore.

For a good two hours Monday evening, that looked very wrong. The indignities of age and wear and tear had finally gotten him. The proud warrior that he is, he would make Cerundolo win it in his own right rather than raise the white flag and default. 

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Still, this was the thing that couldn’t be beaten even with the maximum dose of pain medication a doctor gave him after the third set. It would take 30-45 minutes to kick in. Could he last that long? Likely not. It was sweet the way he climbed back into the fourth set, rallying from a service break down to draw, even then rousing the crowd as if coming back with one functioning knee might be possible.

Maybe it was that Serbian fighting spirit that Djokovic and his fellow countrymen often speak about. Maybe it was the anti-inflammatories and pain medication finally kicking in. Maybe the crowd brought him back. Maybe — more definitely — it was Cerundolo overawed by a match against one of the final bosses of tennis in the 2000s feeling like playing in easy mode. This often happens in tennis — and when the player at the other end who is struggling isn’t Novak Djokovic.

During a match in Bucharest earlier this year, Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild had to finish off Luca Nardi, who played on after twisting his ankle so badly that he couldn’t run. Seyboth Wild kept hitting the ball back to Nardi, even letting him hit winners. Cerundolo seemed unable to take control, scarcely believing that it was an option, hitting placid rally balls into Djokovic’s backhand instead of targeting the forehand, where his weight would have to be transmitted through the knee.

Probably it was a lot of all four.

Then slowly, and all at once, Djokovic bent into his backhands again. He was chasing and lunging after drop shots. He was smacking his forehand into the corners, forcing Cerundolo to scramble and hit one more shot and then another until he had the fourth set and began to cruise in the fifth and, of course, he was going to win.

There was a lunging-into-a-split drop volley late in the fifth set that will be shown on Roland Garros highlight reels as long as there are Roland Garros highlight reels.

✈️ Djokovic provides the Shot of the Day 👀 #RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/K3Ct38W9wn — Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) June 3, 2024

ARE YOU KIDDING ME NOVAK DJOKOVIC? 😱 Check out his drop volley and hydroplane finish ✈️ for the @BetMGM shot of the day! #RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/wHr45y4Q1f — Tennis Channel (@TennisChannel) June 3, 2024

Cerundolo and life in the mid-30s would come at him again. The Argentine fought back. Djokovic slipped and spilt into the clay on that wobbly knee, once with a high-speed crash on the red dust. But, finally, after four hours and 39 minutes, he had beaten them both.

“I guess that’s probably a weaker part of my body that has had some few weeks of history,” he said.

A few weeks and a lifetime. And so the weakness proved. Now he will see whether he gets to rebuild it and go again: slowly, all at once, or not at all.

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