The US Open is to broaden its essential draw to fifteen days, kicking off a day earlier on Sunday for the event’s first weekend begin within the Open Period.
America Tennis Affiliation (USTA) introduced the transfer on Wednesday, with the schedule change seeing the lads’s and ladies’s singles first rounds play out over three days from Sunday August 24.
The added day will enable essential draw entry for one more 70,000 attendees or extra at Flushing Meadows, after a 3rd straight 12 months of record-breaking attendances in 2024.
The Sunday opener will embody six new ticketed periods, with day and evening periods for the famed Arthur Ashe Stadium and Louis Armstrong Stadium.
The ultimate Grand Slam of the 12 months will as soon as once more be broadcast solely dwell on Sky Sports activities, with protection operating from Sunday August 24 by way of to Sunday September 7.
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Aryna Sabalenka battled previous Jessica Pegula in straight units as she received the 2024 US Open ladies’s singles
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Sinner and Sabalenka go in as defending champs
Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka will return to Flushing Meadows as defending champions, each having clinched maiden US Open titles when successful final 12 months’s males’s and ladies’s singles finals.
Sinner beat American Taylor Fritz 6-3 6-4 7-5, whereas Sabalenka too overcame a house hope within the type of Jessica Pegular, claiming a 7-5 7-5 victory.
Each the present world No 1s, the pair had differing fortunes of their respective finals within the opening Grand Slam of 2025 on the Australian Open.
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Watch Sinner beat Alexander Zverev in straight units to win the 2025 Australian Open title
Sinner clinched a 3rd slam success with one other straight-sets victory over Alexander Zverev, whereas Sabalenka misplaced out to Madison Keys in an exciting three-setter.
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