Overview
The final Grand Slam of the year — hard courts in New York, floodlit night sessions and the loudest crowds in tennis.
The US Open is the fourth and final Grand Slam of the year, played over two weeks from late August at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, on hard courts.
It is the loudest and least reverent of the majors. Night sessions in the 23,000-seat Arthur Ashe Stadium, the largest tennis venue in the world, run past midnight, and the tournament has never enforced the hush that Wimbledon expects. It was the first major to pay equal prize money, in 1973, and the first to use a tie-break.
Season Format
Recent Champions
Most recent first. Seasons still in progress are marked.
History
The tournament began in 1881 at Newport, Rhode Island, moved to Forest Hills in 1915 and to Flushing Meadows in 1978. It became the first major to pay men and women equally in 1973, at Billie Jean King's insistence.
Its history includes some of tennis's most charged occasions: Arthur Ashe's 1968 win as an amateur; the Connors–Borg–McEnroe years; Serena Williams's six titles and her farewell in 2022; and Novak Djokovic's 2023 win, which took him to a record 24 Grand Slam singles titles.
Governance
The tournament is owned and run by the United States Tennis Association, under the Grand Slam Board and the ITF.