2025 US Open (tennis)
2025 US Open | |
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Date | August 24 – September 7 |
Edition | 145th |
Category | Grand Slam (ITF) |
Draw | 128S/64D |
Prize money | $75,000,000 |
Surface | Hard |
Location | New York City, United States |
Venue | USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center |
2024 Champions | |
Men's singles | |
Jannik Sinner | |
Women's singles | |
Aryna Sabalenka | |
Men's doubles | |
Max Purcell / Jordan Thompson | |
Women's doubles | |
Lyudmyla Kichenok / Jeļena Ostapenko | |
Mixed doubles | |
Sara Errani / Andrea Vavassori | |
Boys' singles | |
Rafael Jódar | |
Girls' singles | |
Mika Stojsavljevic | |
Boys' doubles | |
Maxim Mrva / Rei Sakamoto | |
Girls' doubles | |
Malak El Allami / Emily Sartz-Lunde |
The 2025 US Open will be the 145th edition of tennis' US Open and the fourth and final Grand Slam event of the year. It will be held on outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City. Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka are the men's and women's singles defending champions, respectively. This will be the final edition of the tournament with Stacey Allaster as its director.[1]
Tournament
The tournament will be an event run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and be a part of the 2025 ATP Tour and the 2025 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament will be played on hard courts and take place over a series of 17 courts with Laykold surface, including the three existing main showcourts – Arthur Ashe Stadium, Louis Armstrong Stadium and Grandstand.[2]
The US Open main draw will expand to 15 competition days in 2025, and will feature the first weekend start to the main draw in the Open Era alongside the Australian Open and the French Open tennis championships, with competitions beginning on Sunday, August 24, to Sunday, September 7.[3]
The wheelchair professional events will be held for the first time since 2023, as they were not held in 2024 due to scheduling conflicts with the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.[4]
New mixed doubles format
The 2025 edition of the US Open will be the first with a new format of mixed doubles competition, that will be moved to the first week of the US Open–Fan Week and played from Tuesday, August 19 to Wednesday, August 20 with a reward of $1 million winner’s prize.
The two days of competition will be held in the Arthur Ashe Stadium and the Louis Armstrong Stadium, featuring 16 teams, with eight teams earning direct entry based on their combined singles ranking and eight wild-card entries. The matches will be played in best-of-three-sets with short sets to four games, no-ad scoring, tiebreakers at four-all, and a 10-point match tiebreak in lieu of a third set. The final will be a best-of-three set match to six games, featuring no-ad scoring, with tiebreakers at six-all with a 10-point match tiebreaker in lieu of a third set.[5]
This change was very much criticized by players and fans.[6][7][8]
Broadcast
Singles players
Events
Men's singles
Women's singles
Men's doubles
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
Wheelchair men's singles
Wheelchair women's singles
Wheelchair quad singles
Wheelchair men's doubles
Wheelchair women's doubles
Wheelchair quad doubles
Boys' singles
Girls' singles
Boys' doubles
Girls' doubles
Wheelchair boys' singles
Wheelchair girls' singles
Wheelchair boys' doubles
Wheelchair girls' doubles
Point and prize money distribution
References
- ^ "Diretora do US Open deixará o cargo após edição de 2025 do Grand Slam". CNN Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2024-12-12. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
- ^ "US Open 2025 Overview | WTA Official". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
- ^ "US Open main draw expanding to Sunday start in 2025". US Open. United States Tennis Association. 29 January 2025. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
- ^ "US Open organisers of grand slam cancel wheelchair tennis for 2024 tournament due to Paralympics clash". Sky Sports. September 28, 2023. Retrieved August 18, 2023.
- ^ "2025 US Open mixed doubles championship takes the spotlight". US Open. United States Tennis Association. 11 February 2025. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
- ^ "Campeões de duplas mistas do US Open criticam mudança de formato". CNN Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2025-02-12. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
- ^ Priante, Felipe (2025-02-13). "Errani e Vavassori lideram reclamações sobre mudança nas mistas do US Open". TenisBrasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-06-17.
- ^ Priante, Felipe (2025-06-18). "Duplista polonês dispara contra evento de duplas mistas do US Open". TenisBrasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-06-18.