US Open (tennis)

US Open

Official website
Founded	1881, 143 years ago
Editions	144 (2024)
Location	New York City United States
Venue	USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center (since 1978)
Surface	Hard – outdoors[a][b] (since 1978) Clay – outdoors (1975–1977) Grass – outdoors (1881–1974)
Prize money	US$75,000,000 (2024)[1]
Men's
Draw	S (128Q) / 64D (16Q)[c]
Current champions	Jannik Sinner (singles) Max Purcell Jordan Thompson (doubles)
Most singles titles	7 Bill Tilden
Most doubles titles	6 Mike Bryan
Women's
Draw	S (128Q) / 64D (16Q)
Current champions	Aryna Sabalenka (singles) Lyudmyla Kichenok Jeļena Ostapenko (doubles)
Most singles titles	8 Molla Mallory
Most doubles titles	13 Margaret Osborne duPont
Mixed doubles
Draw	32
Current champions	Sara Errani Andrea Vavassori
Most titles (male)	4 Bill Tilden Bill Talbert Bob Bryan
Most titles (female)	9 Margaret Osborne duPont
Grand Slam
Australian Open French Open Wimbledon US Open
Last completed
2024 US Open

The US Open Tennis Championships, commonly called the US Open, is a hardcourt tennis tournament organized by the United States Tennis Association annually in Queens, New York City. It is chronologically the fourth and final of the four Grand Slam tennis events, held after 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 United States Labor Day holiday. All players participating must be at least fourteen years old.

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.

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. Revenue from ticket sales, sponsorships, and television contracts is used to develop tennis in the United States. For example, in 2024 it extended its partnership with Grey Goose vodka for the honey deuce, a cocktail that is the official signature of the US Open.^[2]

This tournament, from 1971 to 2021, employed standard tiebreakers (first to seven points, win by two) in every set of a singles match.^[3] 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.^[4]

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