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US Open, formally named the United States open tennis championship, is an international tennis championship and tournament. It is the fourth major championship in Tennis that makes up the annual grand slam in tennis tournament history. This tournament is held every year for two weeks on the missile of august and early September.
This championship tournament has been played since 1978 in the United States. The tournament was held on the Acrylic hard court of the US tennis association. Thus US tennis championship has five main categories in the US Open final. Those are men’s singles and doubles, women’s singles and doubles, and mixed doubles.
This paper is divided into a few parts that discuss the history of the US open, the ground details of the championship, and the US Open winner list.
History of US opens tennis championship.
The US open developed the oldest championship in a tennis tournament in the world. It was established in 1881 as the men’s doubles and singles tournament. This championship added the women’s singles in 1887 and women’s doubles and mixed double in 1889 and 1892. This tournament moved to Flushing meadows in 1978. It has been played on different surfaces, such as in grass, then on clay, and finally on hard court surfaces.
One of the memorable moments in the history of the US Open took place in the 1992 semifinal match between the tournament of American Michael Chang and Stefan Edberg of Sweden for five hoppers and 26 minutes. It was believed as the longest match in the history of tennis tournaments. The longest women’s match took place in 1898, between Juliette Atkinson and Marion Jones, which extended to 51 games. In the record of tennis championship, Jimmy Connors is the one who won open singles of all three open surfaces, and Chris Evert is the woman who won the two surfaces.
The US Open is owned by a non-profit organization, the United States tennis association, and Patrick Galbraith is e chairperson of the organization.
Ground and surface derails of US open
The ground of US open has for show courts and 22 outdoor courts, 12 practice courts, and 13 field courts. This is the next largest court with 14,061 seating capacity, costing USD 200 million. There are 6400 lower seating which are separately ticketed, and upper seating of 7,661 was separately reserved and not separately ticketed. Court 17 is the fourth largest stadium located in the southeast corner. It was opened for temporally seating and opened in 2011.
From 1978 to 2019, the US Open was being played on a hard court surface, which is named pro deco turf. It is a cushioned surface with a multilayer bed on it. The international tennis federation classifies this multilayer cushioned surface. In each year before the tournament, each cushioned get resurfaced. The Laykold became the official court surface from 2020 march, declared by USTA. In 2015, the tennis court was painted in blue in the US Open tennis championship because it will make the tennis court playing more accessible for the player and easy to view the ball from the television.
US open winners list
From 2000 to 2021, the US Open winner list is given below according to the US open final result.
Year | Winner | Runner up | Score |
2021 | Daniil Medvedev | Novak Dokovic | 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 |
2020 | Dominic Thiem | Alexander Zverev | 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 |
2019 | Rafael Nadal | Daniil Medvedev | 7–5, 6–3, 5–7, 4–6, 6–4 |
2018 | Novak Dokovic | Juan Martín del Potro | 6–3, 7–6(7–4), 6–3 |
2017 | Rafael Nadal | Kevin Anderson | 6–3, 6–3, 6–4 |
2016 | Stan Wawrinka | Novak Dokovic | 6–7(1–7), 6–4, 7–5, 6–3 |
2015 | Novak Dokovic | Roger Federer | 6–4, 5–7, 6–4, 6–4 |
2014 | Marin Čilić | Kei Nishikori | 6–3, 6–3, 6-3 |
2013 | Rafael Nadal | Novak Dokovic | 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 |
2012 | Andy Murray | Novak Dokovic | 7-6(12-10), 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2 |
2011 | Novak Dokovic | Rafael Nadal | 6-2, 6-4, 6-7, 6-1 |
2010 | Rafael Nadal | Novak Dokovic | 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 |
2009 | Juan Martin del Potro | Roger Federer | 3–6, 7–6(7–5), 4–6, 7–6(7–4), 6–2 |
2008 | Roger Federer | Andy Murray | 6-2 7-5 6-2 |
2007 | Roger Federer | Andre Agassi | 7-6(4) 7-6(2) 6-4 |
2006 | Roger Federer | Andy Roddick | 6-2 4-6 7-5 6-1 |
2005 | Roger Federer | Andre Agassi | 6-3 2-6 7-6(1) 6-1 |
2004 | Roger Federer | Lleyton Hewitt | 6-0 7-6 6-0 |
2003 | Andy Roddick | Juan Carlos Ferrero | 6-3 7-6 6-3 |
2002 | Pete Sampras | Andre Agassi | 6-3 6-4 5-7 6-4 |
2001 | Lleyton Hewitt | Pete Sampras | 7-6 (7-4) 6-1, 6-1 |
2000 | Marat Safin | Pete Sampras | 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 |
Conclusion
The US open court celebrates the legacy of the most outstanding singles champions in the history of tennis tournaments and the US championships. This tournament has presented a tournament of all-time great tennis players whose performances contributed to the US opening one of the world’s significant sports events. In 2021, the US open started new prize money and total player compensation of 57.5 million dollars, proper covid 19 pandemic.
