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MONDAY 26 AUGUST – SUNDAY
SEPTEMBER 8
US Open – Flushing Meadow,
New York
The tournament is the modern version
of one of the oldest tennis
championships in the world, the U.S.
National Championship, for which men’s
singles and men’s doubles were first
played in 1881.
championships: men’s and women’s
singles, men’s and women’s doubles, and
mixed doubles. The tournament also
includes events for senior, junior and
wheelchair players.
Since 1978, the tournament has been
played on acrylic hard courts at the
USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis
Centre in Flushing Meadows – Corona
Park, Queens, New York City. The US
Open is owned and organized by the
United States Tennis Association
(USTA), a non-profit organization.
Revenue from ticket sales, sponsorships,
and television contracts are used to
develop tennis in the United States.
The US Open employs standard 7-points
tiebreakers in every set of a singles
match. For the other three Grand Slam
events, there are special scoring methods
for a match that reaches 6–6 in the last
possible set (the third for women and the
fifth for men): in the French Open, the
decisive set continues until a player takes
a two-game lead, in Australia, an
extended tiebreaker to 10 points is
played, and at Wimbledon, a tiebreaker
is played only if the game score reaches
12–12. As with the US Open, those events
use tiebreakers to decide the other sets.
Since 1987, the US Open has been
chronologically the fourth and final
Grand Slam tournament of the year. The
other three, in chronological order being
the Australian Open, the French Open,
and Wimbledon. The US Open starts on
the last Monday of August and continues
for two weeks, with the middle weekend
coinciding with the U.S. Labour Day
holiday.
The tournament consists of five primary
USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre in Flushing Meadows, USA
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