US Open

Us Open

The US Open has been chronologically the fourth and final tennis major comprising the Grand Slam each year. It starts on the last Monday in August, lasting for two weeks into September. The first tournament was in 1881. Now, more then 710.000 people are attending this tournament every year, this makes it the biggest event.

The main tournament consist of five event championships:

-       Men’s Single

-       Women’s Single

-       Men’s Double

-       Women’s Double

-       Mixed Double

There are also additional tournaments for senior, junior, and wheelchair players.

Media

First of all, the website of US Open allows viewing of live streaming, but does not allow watching video on demand. The website also has live radio.

The tournament has different TV rights for every country:

-       United States: ESPN and Tennis Channel

-       Belgium, Netherlands, Russia, UK, and Germany: Eurosport (some countries have also another channel)

-       Brazil: SporTV and ESPN

Sponsors

US Open has around 25 sponsors. These are the most important:

Players

Novak Djokovic was the winner of Men’s Singles in 2015. It was his tenth Major Singles title and his second title at the US Open. He earned with his championship around  $1.900.000.

Flacia Penetta was the winner of the Women’s Single in 2015. It was her first Major Singles title.

Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won the Men’s Double in 2015. It was their first Jajor Men’s Double title. Price money for Doubles is $420.000.

Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza won the Women’s Double in 2015. Marina also won the Mixed Double with Leander Peas. The price money for Mixed Doubles is $150.000.

Stadium

The stadium of US Open is the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. The stadium is built in 1997. With more than 22.000 seats, 90 skyboxes, five restaurants and two floors specially for the players, makes this the biggest tennis stadium of the world. It cost more then 250 million dollar to build it.