The Us Open tennis tournament is one of the 4 Grand Slam tournaments, held every year in Brooklyn/New York (USA) on two large playing areas at Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong, which are the two largest courts with at least 18 outdoor courts. This year’s tournament will take place over two weeks, from August 29 to September 11. It is played in singles, doubles and mixed doubles for both men and women on hard synthetic surfaces.

The number of participants is 224 athletes, distributed as follows: 128 players in singles, 64 in doubles and 32 teams in mixed doubles. It consists of 7 phases: 1st, 2nd and 3rd rounds before moving on to the eighth, quarter and semi-finals and then the final.

The winner of the 141st edition in the men’s event will earn $3,350,971 and in the women’s event $2,967,929.

The Us Open began in 1881 and this year marks the 141st edition. The players who are likely to participate in this edition are Daniil Medvedev (Russian), the titleholder Novak Djokovic (Serbian), Rafael Nadal (Spanish), Andy Murray (Scottish), Richard Gasquet (French), Kei Nishikori (Japanese), Sam Querrey (US), and the winner of the first edition of the tournament. ), Sam Querrey (Usa), Andrea Seppi(ita), Alexander Zverev (all), Alejandro Tabilo (chi), Roberto Bautista(esp), Lucas Pouille(fçais), Philip Kolschreiber(all), Stefano Tsitsipas (grec), Cameroon Norrie(UK), Grigor Dimitrov (bulgarian) etc. And in the women’s category, we will probably see Emma Raducanu (19 years old), the British born in Canada, the title holder Serena Williams (40 years old), one of the most titled, Alizé Cornet (French), Jelena Ostapenka (Latvian), Karolina Pliskova (Czech), Alicia Barnett (UK), Lesley Kerkrove (Dutch), Gabriela Dabrowski (Can. ), Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus), Claire Liu (USA), Océane Dodin(fran), Garbine Muguruza (esp), Harmony Tan (fran), Yulia Putintseva (kazakhstan), Ralucz Olaru (roum), Tamara Korpatsch(all), Renata Vorakova (slovak), Yanina wickmayer (all), Nadia Kichenok (ukr), Iga Swiatek (pol), Raluca Olaru(roum) etc.

If in the world soccer Fifa had excluded the Russian athletes, the FIT (International Tennis Federation), as for it, authorized the Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in the Us Open but on neutral flag.

Good to know:
The most titled in the women/Us Open, Molla Bjurstedl Mallory (usa)-8 trophies.
In the men’s category:
William Learned, Richard Sears and Bill Tilden, all Americans,7titles.