Many fans and athletes are still celebrating the outcomes of the tennis tournament during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games, and there is already a new event knocking on the door. Having finished its preliminary rounds in the period between 19 and 22 August, the US Open in tennis started its actual tournament on Monday, 26 August.
Conducted as part of the 2024 ATP Tour and 2024 WTA Tour, the US Open is chronologically the last Grand Slam event of the year. The other three events preceding it are the Australian Open (starting in the middle of January), French Open (starting in late May), and the oldest tennis tournament in the world, Wimbledon Championships (starting in late June or early July).
Starting on the last Monday of August, the US Open lasts for two weeks just like its other Grand Slam counterparts. It is also the second oldest tennis tournament among the four, having been established in 1881, just four years after Wimbledon.
In terms of the ground surface, the US Open is a hardcourt, same as the French Open and the Australian Open, with only Wimbledon out of the four still being played on grass surfaces. Since 1978 the US Open has been held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
An interesting fact about the tournament is that, unlike other Grand Slam events, it wasn’t cancelled during either World War I or World War II, or during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
There are five primary championships in the tournament:
- men’s singles
- women’s singles
- men’s doubles
- women’s doubles
- mixed doubles
Other events include senior players, junior players, and wheelchair tennis.
2024 Tennis US Open: A Full Guide
This year the US Open holds its 144th edition. Lasting over two weeks between 26 August and 8 September, the tournament will be conducted in its usual location in Queens, New York. Nine events will span over 17 courts of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, including the main showcourts — Arthur Ashe Stadium, Louis Armstrong Stadium and Grandstand.
With the wheelchair tennis event absent from this year’s programme, it has caused a significant controversy among the athletes. With the 2024 Paris Summer Paralympic Games starting off just two days after the beginning of the US Open and both events ending on the same day, the organizers of the tennis tournament decided to conduct this year’s competition without wheelchair tennis, as some players would be attending the Paralympics.
The current champions in men’s singles and women’s singles, Novak Djokivic and Coco Gauff, will both be entering the tournament to defend their titles. The 2020 US Open champion and former world number 3, Austrian tennis player Dominic Thiem will be making his final professional major appearance before he retires in October this year after the Vienna Open.
US Open Men’s Singles
In the men’s singles, not only will the reigning champion Novak Djokovic be defending his title, but should he succeed, it will be his fifth US Open title. He will be joining Pete Sampras, Jimmy Connors, and Roger Federer, who all have won five US Open men’s singles championships in different times.
The seeds for the 2024 US Open men’s singles are the following:
- Jannik Sinner (Italy)
- Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
- Carlos Alcaraz (Spain)
- Alexander Zverev (Germany)
- Daniil Medvedev
- Andrey Rublev
- Hubert Hurkacz (Poland)
- Casper Ruud (Norway)
- Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria)
- Alex de Minaur (Australia)
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece)
- Taylor Fritz (USA)
- Ben Shelton (USA)
- Tommy Paul (USA)
- Holger Rune (Denmark)
- Sebastian Korda (USA)
- Ugo Humbert (France)
- Lorenzo Musetti (Italy)
- Félix Auger-Aliassime (Canada)
- Frances Tiafoe (USA)
- Sebastián Báez (Argentina)
- Alejandro Tabilo (Chile)
- Karen Khachanov
- Arthur Fils (France)
- Jack Draper (UK)
- Nicolás Jarry (Chile)
- Alexander Bublik (Kazakhstan)
- Alexei Popyrin (Australia)
- Francisco Cerúndolo (Argentina)
- Matteo Arnaldi (Italy)
- Flavio Cobolli (Italy)
- Jiří Lehečka (Czech Republic)
US Open Women’s Singles
For the current champion in women’s singles Coco Gauff, her victory over Aryna Sabalenka in the 2023 US Open was her first major title. As Gauff was still 19 at the time, she became the first American teenager after Serena Williams to achieve this. She will be participating in the 2024 US Open to defend her title.
The seeds for the 2024 US Open women’s singles are the following:
- Iga Świątek (Poland)
- Aryna Sabalenka
- Coco Gauff (USA)
- Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan)
- Jasmine Paolini (Italy)
- Jessica Pegula (USA)
- Zheng Qinwen (China)
- Barbora Krejčíková (Czech Republic)
- Maria Sakkari (Greece)
- Jeļena Ostapenko (Latvia)
- Danielle Collins (USA)
- Daria Kasatkina
- Emma Navarro (USA)
- Madison Keys (USA)
- Anna Kalinskaya
- Liudmila Samsonova
- Ons Jabeur (Tunisia) (withdrew)
- Diana Shnaider
- Marta Kostyuk (Ukraine)
- Victoria Azarenka
- Mirra Andreeva
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (Brazil)
- Leylah Fernandez (Canada)
- Donna Vekić (Croatia)
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Paula Badosa (Spain)
- Elina Svitolina (Ukraine)
- Caroline Garcia (France)
- Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Yulia Putintseva (Kazakhstan)
- Katie Boulter (UK)
- Dayana Yastremska (Ukraine)
- Elise Mertens (Belgium)
The Tunisian tennis player Ons Jabeur had to withdraw from the tournament due to a shoulder injury.
We will be excited to bring you updates on the developments in the tournament and the names of the final winners, so watch this space for more.
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