The US Open tennis tournament’s main draw will expand to 15 competition days in 2025 after a third consecutive year of extraordinary demand and record-breaking attendance in 2024.
Forbes said the main draw will begin on Sunday 24 August this year, a day earlier than the usual Monday opener, running through until Sunday 7 September.
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) said the Sunday start will offer main-draw access to an additional 70,000 attendees.
The US Open Tennis Championships, commonly called the US Open, is a hard court tennis tournament organized by the United States Tennis Association (USTA) annually in Queens, New York City.
The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is a stadium complex within Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. It has been the home of the US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament, played every year in August and September, since 1978 and is operated by the USTA. The venue has 22 courts inside its precincts and 12 in the adjoining park.
The USTA said, “With more planned main draw competition days than ever and Fan Week featuring six days of free grounds admission prior to the main draw, the 2025 US Open is set to offer the most access for fans in the event’s 145-year history.”
Opening Sunday will have six new ticketed sessions available—day and night sessions for reserved seats in both Arthur Ashe Stadium and Louis Armstrong Stadium, and day session tickets for Grandstand reserved and Grounds Admission. No further adjustments to the singles main draw schedule after the first round are planned.
The seating varies by stadium within the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The Arthur Ashe Stadium has the most seating options and holds 23,771 spectators. The other seating options include the Louis Armstrong Stadium, which seats 14,053. The Grandstand seats 8,125 and Court 17 seats 2,800.
The first rounds of the men’s and women’s singles will be played on the opening three days from Sunday to Tuesday.
The U.S. Open is the latest Grand Slam to announce a Sunday start after the Australian Open expanded to a 15-day tournament in 2024, and the French Open first did so in 2006.
Currently, grass court major Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam with the traditional Monday start.
Last year at the U.S. Open, world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus won the women’s singles title after beating American Jessica Pegula in the final, while top-ranked Jannik Sinner of Italy was named the men’s singles champion after defeating local hope Taylor Fritz.
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