US OPEN
A hardcourt tennis competition is the US Open Tennis Championships. The US Open has historically been the year’s fourth and last Grand Slam competition. The French Open, Wimbledon, and the other three are listed in chronological order. The US Open begins on the final Monday in August and lasts for two weeks, with Labor Day weekend falling on the middle weekend. The event, which was formerly known as the U.S. National Championship and for which the first men’s singles and men’s doubles matches were contested in August 1881, is one of the oldest tennis competitions in the world.
Men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles, and mixed doubles are the tournament’s five main championships. The competition also features wheelchair, senior, and junior events. The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, New York City, has hosted the tournament on acrylic hardcourts since 1978. The United States Tennis Association (USTA), a nonprofit corporation, owns and runs the US Open, and Patrick Galbraith serves as its chairman. Tennis is being developed in the United States through money from ticket sales, sponsorships, and broadcast deals. In every set of a singles match at the US Open, normal tiebreakers (first to 7, win by 2) were used. Now, if a match ends at 6-6 in the final set (the third for women and the fifth for men) in any of the four Grand Slam competitions, a 10-point extended tiebreaker is played.
HISTORY
In 1978, the tournament relocate from the West Side Tennis Club to the 3 miles (4.8 km) north in Flushing Meadows, Queens, the larger and recently built USTA National Tennis Center. The hard courts used in the competition replaced the clay ones. Chris Evert is the only woman to have won US Open singles titles on two surfaces, while Jimmy Connors is the only person to have won titles on grass, clay, and hard (clay and hard).
The US Open is the only Grand Slam competition that has been held continuously since it began.
The complex was renamed “USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center” for the 2006 US Open in honor of Billie Jean King, a four-time US Open singles champion and pioneer of women’s tennis.
The US Open experimented with a scheduling method known as “Super Saturday” from 1984 to 2015, when the men’s and women’s finals were played on the final Saturday and Sunday of the competition, respectively, and their respective semifinals were scheduled the day before. In 2001, the women’s final was shifted to the evening so it could be played on primetime television, citing a significant increase in interest in women’s tennis among spectators. The women’s final had previously been contested in between the two men’s semi-final matches. Although this scheduling arrangement boosted television viewing, it caused conflict among the athletes because it only offered them a day’s worth of relaxation between their semifinal and championship matches.
Weather-related postponements of the men’s final to Monday occurred five times in a row between 2008 and 2012 tournaments. The USTA purposely planned the men’s final on a Monday in 2013 and 2014, which was praised for giving the men’s players an extra day to relax after the semifinals but angered the ATP for further departing from the format of the other Grand Slams. The Super Saturday idea was abandoned in 2015, and the US Open resumed its regular Grand Slam format, with the women’s and men’s finals taking place on Saturday and Sunday. The semifinal matches that year, however, had to be held on Friday due to weather delays.
The shot clock was first used at a Grand Slam tournament in 2018 to monitor how long it took players to transition between points. This modification was made in order to quicken the play. The chair umpire, the players, and the spectators can all see the clock. All Grand Slams, ATP, and WTA competitions use this technology starting in 2020.
Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the event was held without spectators in 2020.
2022 US OPEN
The 142nd US Open will take place in 2022, making it the year’s fourth and final Grand Slam tournament. At the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City, it will be played on outdoor hard courts.
The men’s and women’s singles champions are Daniil Medvedev and Emma Raducanu.
TOURNAMENT
The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park of Queens in New York City, New York, United States, will host the 142nd consecutive US Open, which will take place there. 14 DecoTurf hard courts will be used for the tournament.
The competition is a Grand Slam event organized by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is listed on the 2022 ATP Tour and 2022 WTA Tour schedules. Both the men’s and women’s singles and doubles draws will be included in the competition, and both will have the regular 64 players for the doubles draws and the standard 128 players for the singles draws. Boys and girls (players under 18) can compete in singles and doubles events that are included in the Grade A category of competitions.
The Arthur Ashe Stadium, Louis Armstrong Stadium, and Grandstand showcourts are among the 15 hard courts with DecoTurf surfaces used for the tournament, which is played there.