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US Open (tennis)
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The US Open Tennis Championships, commonly called the US Open, is a hardcourt tennis tournament held annually in Queens, New York. Since 1987, the US Open has been chronologically the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the year (except in 2020, when the French Open was delayed to occur after the US Open due to the COVID-19 lockdowns). The other three, in chronological order, are the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. The US Open starts on the last Monday of August and continues for two weeks, with the middle weekend coinciding with the US Labor Day holiday. The tournament is one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, originally known as the U.S. National Championships, for which men's singles and men's doubles were first played in August 1881. It is the only Grand Slam that was not affected by cancellation due to World War I and World War II, nor interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. All the players participating should be at least fourteen (14) years old.
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Official website | |
Founded | 1881, 142 years ago |
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Editions | 144 (2024) |
Location | New York City United States |
Venue | USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center (since 1978) |
Surface | Hard – outdoors[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2] (since 1978) Clay – outdoors (1975–1977) Grass – outdoors (1881–1974) |
Prize money | US$65,000,020 (2023)[1] |
Men's | |
Draw | S (128Q) / 64D (16Q)[lower-alpha 3] |
Current champions | Novak Djokovic (singles) Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury (doubles) |
Most singles titles | 7 Bill Tilden |
Most doubles titles | 6 Mike Bryan |
Women's | |
Draw | S (128Q) / 64D (16Q) |
Current champions | Coco Gauff (singles) Gabriela Dabrowski Erin Routliffe (doubles) |
Most singles titles | 8 Molla Mallory |
Most doubles titles | 13 Margaret Osborne duPont |
Mixed doubles | |
Draw | 32 |
Current champions | Anna Danilina Harri Heliövaara |
Most titles (male) | 4 Bill Tilden Bill Talbert Bob Bryan |
Most titles (female) | 9 Margaret Osborne duPont |
Grand Slam | |
Last completed | |
2023 US Open |
The tournament consists of five primary championships: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles. The tournament also includes events for senior, junior, and wheelchair players. Since 1978, the tournament has been played on acrylic hardcourts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City. The US Open is owned and organized by the United States Tennis Association (USTA), a non-profit organization, and the chairperson of the US Open is Patrick Galbraith. Revenue from ticket sales, sponsorships, and television contracts is used to develop tennis in the United States.
This tournament, from 1971 to 2021, employed standard tiebreakers (first to seven points, win by two) in every set of a singles match.[2] Since 2022, new tiebreak rules were initiated and standardized in the final set for all four majors, where if a match reaches six-all in the final set (the third for women and fifth for men), an extended tiebreaker (first to ten points, win by two) is played. The introduction of the extended tiebreaker in 2022 was part of a broader effort to standardize play across the Grand Slam tournaments, ensuring consistency in how matches are decided while also addressing player fatigue and match duration.[3]