US Open (tennis)

The U.s. Open, which takes place annually at the end of August, the last Grand Slam tournament of the tennis season. The U.s. Open comes from two different tournaments, a men's and a women's tournament. The U.S. National men's Singles Championship was first held in 1881 at Newport, Rhode Island. Also here the double Championships took place from 1900. The women's team competition was held for the first time in 1887 on the Philadelphia Cricket Club; starting from 1889 were here also double Championships (just and mixed) held.

In 1968 the two tournaments were merged with the five championships and was the name of the tournament US Open. Until 1978 was made the tournament place on theWest Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, New York. Here was originally played on grass, but in 1975 the grass runways were replaced by gravel. Since 1978 the US Open takes place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, Queens, New York City. Since then, the tournament played on hard court. Since 1997 the main fixtures in the Arthur Ashe Stadium held. Jimmy Connors is the only player to the tournament on three different surfaces (grass, clay and hard court) has won.



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[hide] *1 prize money  ==Prize Money[ Edit] == The u.s. Open is one of the most lucrative tournaments for Scrabble (t) ers. In 2013 the total prize money amounted to USD 34.3 million. Of this was twice $ 2.6 million reserved for the winner of both the men's and Ladies singles game. The losing Finalist (e) as a rule, receive a price equal to half of what the winner deserves. The u.s. Open is charged equal prices apply to all since 1973 the gentlemen and the ladies.
 * 2 Winners
 * 3 Records and statistics
 * 4 Titles Open Era
 * 4.1 Men
 * 4.2 Women
 * 5 footnotes
 * 6 external links

Since 2004, there is also an annual pot of bonus prijsgeld available for the top three men's and three ladies of the so-called best US Open Series, eleven on the North American continent organized ATP/WTA-summer tournaments. This pot amounted to up to $ 2.6 million in 2013 and, according to a particular key assigned to the aforementioned six ladies and gentlemen, as far as they took part in the main event of the US Open. [1] ==Winners[ Edit] == ==Records and statistics[ Edit] == ==Titles Open Era<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="397" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Only titles since the beginning of the open era in 1968 are taken into account. ===Men<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Women<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===