The US Open, the ultimate Grand Slam of 2024, will get beneath manner from Monday August 26, completely dwell on Sky Sports activities.
How and the place are you able to watch? What’s Sky Sports activities+?
The US Open correct runs from August 26 to September 9, with dwell protection broadcast each day on Sky Sports activities Tennis and any match accessible by way of Sky Sports activities+.
Sky Sports activities+ is dwell and already built-in into Sky TV, streaming service NOW and the Sky Sports activities app – giving Sky Sports activities prospects entry to over 50 per cent extra dwell sport this yr at no additional price.
Sky Sports activities+ could be discovered on linear channel quantity 410 for Sky Glass prospects, 412 for Sky Q prospects and 416 for purchasers within the Republic of Eire.
Or you possibly can head to the ‘Watch’ part on the Sky Sports activities app to entry all Sky Sports activities+ dwell streams by way of the occasion centres.
Throughout Sky Sports activities’ channels, in addition to our digital and social channels, tennis followers can get pleasure from intensive protection of the ultimate Grand Slam of 2024, together with each the lads’s and ladies’s singles, alongside the respective doubles tournaments, blended doubles, juniors, and wheelchair competitions.
Our protection might be fronted by Gigi Salmon, with an all-star line-up of tennis consultants becoming a member of, together with Tim Henman, Laura Robson, Martina Navratilova, Feliciano Lopez, Anne Keothavong and Marion Bartoli… with contributions too from Liam Broady, Jamie Murray and Annabel Croft over the fortnight.
Reporters Karthi Gnanasegaram and Emma Paton, together with lead commentators Jonathan Overend and Naomi Cavaday, may even be on website at Flushing Meadows.
There might be a each day dwell textual content commentary on the Sky Sports activities web site and app, in addition to dwell scores, experiences, evaluation, options and movies.
US Open schedule – dwell on Sky Sports activities
All timing listed as BST
- Monday, August 26 – Males’s & Girls’s singles 1st spherical, dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis & Important Occasion from 3pm
- Tuesday, August 27 – Males’s & Girls’s singles 1st spherical, dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm
- Wednesday, August 28 – Males’s & Girls’s singles 2nd spherical, dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm
- Thursday, August 29 – Males’s & Girls’s singles 2nd spherical, dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm & Important Occasion from 6.30pm
- Friday, August 30 – Males’s & Girls’s singles third spherical, dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm & Important Occasion from midnight
- Saturday, August 31 – Males’s & Girls’s singles third spherical, dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm & Important Occasion from midnight
- Sunday, September 1 – Males’s & Girls’s singles 4th spherical, dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm & Important Occasion from 11pm
- Monday, September 2 – Males’s & Girls’s singles 4th spherical, dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm & Important Occasion from 7pm
- Tuesday, September 3 – Males’s & Girls’s singles quarter-finals, dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm & Important Occasion from 9.15pm
- Wednesday, September 4 – Males’s & Girls’s singles quarter-finals, dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm & Important Occasion from 9.15pm
- Thursday, September 5 – Girls’s singles semi-finals, dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 5pm
- Friday, September 6 – Males’s singles semi-finals, dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 5pm & Important Occasion from 10.15pm
- Saturday, September 7 – Girls’s singles ultimate, dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 5pm & Important Occasion from 8pm
- Sunday, September 8 – Males’s singles ultimate, dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis & Important Occasion from 7pm
What Brits are in motion at Flushing Meadows?
A bunch of Brits are set to compete on this yr’s most important draw, together with 2021 winner Emma Raducanu and present British No 1s Katie Boulter and Jack Draper.
Draper might be flying the flag within the males’s singles, alongside Dan Evans, with Cameron Norrie having withdrawn from the event because of damage.
It is also the primary post-Andy Murray slam for the British male contingent, with the three-time Grand Slam champion having retired from the game after the Paris 2024 Olympics, following a close to twenty years on the prime of the sport.
Raducanu will as soon as once more be a giant draw at Flushing Meadows, the 2021 champion having missed final yr’s event due after having surgical procedure on her two damaged wrists and left ankle.
The 21-year-old is now again to someplace close to her finest kind, having climbed again into the world’s prime 100 off the again of a fourth-round run at Wimbledon.
Dan Evans and Harriet Dart are additionally entered into the lads’s and ladies’s most important singles draw, whereas a heap of different British hopes battled it out to attempt to come by qualifying.
Two-time reigning males’s wheelchair singles champion Alfie Hewett returns to the court docket that noticed him topped a four-time US Open winner, wanting so as to add a tenth Grand Slam title to his carry tally.
In the meantime, British doubles star Joe Salisbury could have his sights on making it 4 in a row on the US Open as he and America’s Rajeev Ram as soon as once more look to retain their males’s doubles crown.
Who’re the opposite huge names in motion?
The ultimate Grand Slam of the yr is well-timed because the battle between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz within the males’s recreation intensifies.
Djokovic misplaced out to the Spaniard handily within the Wimbledon ultimate final month, however arrives at Flushing Meadows recent from lastly securing the Olympic gold medal that had so eluded him up to now.
Djokovic gained revenge on Alcaraz in Paris, placing in a shocking efficiency to triumph in straight units and clinch the ‘golden slam’ – simply the fifth participant to take action, following Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi, Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams.
The 37-year-old Serb now chases but extra historical past with a twenty fifth Grand Slam success on the US Open, which might see him break his present tie on 24 with Australia’s Margaret Courtroom.
Or will it once more be the flip of the younger challengers to his throne, with world No 1 Jannik Sinner wanting so as to add to his Australian Open crown from earlier within the yr and Alcaraz eyeing a fifth slam at simply 21 years previous.
Within the girls’s recreation, world No 1 Iga Swiatek might be trying to go one higher than Alcaraz and safe a sixth slam success, and second in New York.
She heads the ladies’s subject, although defending champion Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina will all be within the shake up too, whereas may Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova spring one other shock?
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