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Tennis referee arrested in NYC for LA death of hubby

A feisty 70-year-old top tennis referee who’s battled the likes of John McEnroe and Andre Agassi was nabbed on her way to work at the US Open in Queens this morning for allegedly killing her 80-year-old husband with a coffee mug, police sources told The Post.

Fiery red-head Lois Ann Goodman of Los Angeles was wearing her official Open togs — a dark-blue Ralph Lauren sweatsuit and sneakers — when she was arrested by NYPD and LA cops around 8 a.m. in front of the Sheraton hotel at 811 Seventh Ave. in Midtown where she was staying, sources said.

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The elderly mother of three allegedly killed her husband, Alan, during a fight at their home April 17, sources said, smashing him with the mug and then stabbing him with one of its shattered pieces.

She tried to cover it up by telling cops her tragic husband had fell down the stairs — and even staged the crime scene to make it look like his death was an accident, authorities told the Los Angeles Times.

It wasn’t until Aug. 2 that Alan Goodman’s death was declared a homicide and his wife became the “prime suspect,” Los Angeles police said.

A warrant for his wife’s arrest was finally issued last week. But by then, Goodman was already on her way to New York City to help ref the Open, which was undergoing qualifying rounds this week, sources said.

Goodman — who has refereed matches involving the sport’s biggest stars from McEnroe and Agassi to Martina Navratilova and Jimmy Connor — has worked the US Open and Australian Open for years, the LA Times said. She’s also been a regular ref at NCAA matches.

Goodman was taken from Midtown North Precinct this afternoon and hauled downtown to Manhattan Criminal Court to face arraignment. She agreed to extradition. She was silent in court, other than saying her name and “yes” when asked if it was her signature on the extradition waiver form. She’s been charged with murder.

She was stone-faced as she was led hand-cuffed into the courthouse.

She’d been charged in absentia on suspicion of murder by LA authorities. In New York, she was booked on a charge called “for other authority,” so that local cops could hold her until she’s brought back to LA to face the slay rap.

She and her husband — a used-car-lot owner — have three adult daughters, the LA Times said.