🎾US Open Tennis
The US Open is the fourth and final Grand Slam tennis tournament of the year, and one of the oldest tennis championships in the world. It commences on the last Monday in August and is played over the next two weeks with events for men’s singles and doubles, women’s singles and doubles, mixed doubles, senior, junior and wheelchair players. The tournament has been held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre in New York since 1978, and the middle weekend of the competition coincides with the US Labor Day holiday, making this a particularly exciting time to be in the city. With Zenseats you can find the best available seats and hospitality packages for the closing Grand Slam event of the season, contact our dedicated customer service team who would be happy to help you arrange the experience of a lifetime.
History
The US Open, originally known as the U.S. National Championship, was first held in August 1881 at the Newport Casino in Rhode Island with only members of the United States National Lawn Tennis association permitted to enter. For the first six years of the tournament it was a men’s only competition but this changed in 1887 with the introduction of the U.S. Women’s National Singles Championship.
In 1968, the tournament became known as the U.S Open and professional tennis players were permitted to compete for the first time and that year 96 men and 63 women entered the competition. The tournament relocated to its current home in the USTA National Tennis Center in 1978 and it has stayed there ever since. The center features 22 outdoor courts, with four ‘show courts’, 13 field courts and 5 practice courts and the main court has an impressive capacity of 23,771.
Gentlemen Records since the open era
Most Singles titles
America’s Jimmy Connors & Pete Sampras & Switzerland’s Roger Federer
5
Most consecutive Singles titles
Switzerland’s Roger Federer
5
Most Doubles titles
America’s Mike Bryan
6
Most consecutive Doubles titles
Australia’s Todd Woodbridge & Mark Woodforde
2
Most Mixed Doubles titles
Australia’s Owen Davidson & America’s Marty Riessen & Bob Bryan
4
Most Championships
America’s Bob Bryan
9
Ladies Records since the open era
Most Singles titles
America’s Chris Evert & Serena Williams
6
Most consecutive Singles titles
America’s Chris Evert
4
Most Double titles
America’s Martina Navratilova
9
Most consecutive Doubles titles
Spain’s Virginia Ruano Pascual & Argentina’s Paola Suárez
3
Most Mixed Doubles titles
Australia’s Margaret Court, America’s Billie Jean King & Martina Navratilova
3
Most Championships
America’s Martina Navratilova
16
Current US Open Champions
Men’s Singles:
Daniil Medvedez (Russia)
Women’s Singles:
Emma Raducanu (Britain)
Men’s Doubles:
Rajeev Ram (America) & Joe Salisbury (British)
Women’s Doubles:
Samantha Stosur (Australia) & Zhang Shuai (China)
Mixed Doubles:
Joe Salisbury (Britain) & Desirae Krawczyk (America)
