DATE: August 31 - September 12, 2020
SURFACE: Hard
PRIZE MONEY: TBD
FIELD SIZE: 128
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Bianca Andreescu
Seeds:
1. Karolina Pliskova
2. Sofia Kenin
3. Serena Williams
4. Naomi Osaka
5. Aryna Sabalenka
6. Petra Kvitova
7. Madison Keys
8. Petra Martic
9. Johanna Konta
10. Garbine Muguruza
11. Elena Rybakina
12. Marketa Vondrousova
13. Alison Riske
14. Anett Kontaveit
15. Maria Sakkari
16. Elise Mertens
17. Angelique Kerber
18. Donna Vekic
19. Dayana Yastremska
20. Karolina Muchova
21. Ekaterina Alexandrova
22. Amanda Anisimova
23. Yulia Putintseva
24. Magda Linette
25. Zhang Shuai
26. Sloane Stephens
27. Ons Jabeur
28. Jennifer Brady
29. Veronika Kudermetova
30. Kristina Mladenovic
31. Anastasija Sevastova
32. Rebecca Peterson
The Tournament:
The US Open Tennis Championships began life as the U.S. National Championship in 1881. It is a hard court tournament, but was for much of its long duration a grass tournament, and was for a few years even played on clay. The tournament consists of men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, with additional tournaments for senior, junior, and wheelchair players.
The venue for the championship is the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens, New York City. The BJKTC has 3 courts with with a retractable roof: Arthur Ashe stadium, the main show court, the newly renovated Louis Armstrong Stadium and another new show court finished in 2016 to replace the old Grandstand. These are the 3 largest, but Court 17, which has a much smaller capacity, but tends to feature interesting early matches, is very sought after which can lead to long lines.
When visiting the Open, you may purchase a ticket to Ashe, which is the only court with assigned numbered seating. This ticket gives you access to all the other courts, as well, where everything is first-come, first-served, and if you leave your seat you may lose it. During the first week, however, you can buy a much cheaper grounds pass, which gives access to all courts except Ashe.
About New York City:
The Big Apple. The City that Never Sleeps.
Immortalized by the greats: Frank Sinatra, E.B. White, the Ramones. Fashion center, jazz and rap mecca, great melting pot of cultures, and past and present home and inspiration to countless writers, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs and hucksters.
New York City is comprised of 5 boroughs, of which Manhattan is only one, though the most famous. But the tennis is played in Queen’s, which has a fascination all its own. It is the geographically largest borough in NYC, but second in population to Brooklyn, and is the most ethnically diverse. There are 138 languages spoken in Queens, of the 800 recorded in all of NYC. Queens boasts one of the largest Greek communities outside of Greece, the 3rd largest Bosnian population in the US; it has the largest concentration of Ecuadorians, Peruvians, Salvadorans in the city, and its largest concentration of Asians and South Asians, with some of the neighborhoods still very high in concentrations of Italian, Irish and Jewish populations, which are more long-entrenched. There are so many small pockets of great ethnic food here that people from all over the city make pilgrimages to the various neighborhoods to "eat their way around the world."
Prominent figures who hail from Queen’s: Johnny Ramone, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Donald Trump, Nicki Minaj, Kareem Abdul-Jabar, and John McEnroe.
Louis Armstrong, though he was originally from New Orleans and hugely associated with that city, bought a house in a working class neighborhood in Corona, Queens, and lived the last 28 years of his life there. The house is a landmark, which is open to the public. It is very near BJK Tennis Center, and why the stadium is named after him. Before Ashe was built, it was the largest show court at the facility.
BJK Tennis center is adjacent to CitiField, home of the NY Mets baseball team. This is the 50th Anniversery of the “Miracle Mets” World Series win.
Tourism Guide:
TV Coverage:
ESPN: United States and the Pacific commonwealth, Puerto Rico
ESPN International: Latin America Territory (Mexico, Central and South America, Ascension Island), Caribbean (other than Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands) and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand and Pacific)
TSN: Canada
beIN Sports: Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
CCTV: China
Tencent: China
Eurosport: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Commonwealth of Independent States (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan), Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Vatican State, Non-Exclusive: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia
Fox Sports Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
ORG: Austria
Prime Video: United Kingdom, Ireland
SRG SSR: Switzerland
Star India: India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Tennis Channel: United States
Wowow: Japan
Globostat: Brazil
SuperSport: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Socotra, South Africa, St. Helena and Ascension, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe, Non-Exclusive: Chad, Djibouti, Mauritania, Somalia (Somaliland), South Sudan and Sudan
This is a calendar entry.
SURFACE: Hard
PRIZE MONEY: TBD
FIELD SIZE: 128
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Bianca Andreescu
Seeds:
1. Karolina Pliskova
2. Sofia Kenin
3. Serena Williams
4. Naomi Osaka
5. Aryna Sabalenka
6. Petra Kvitova
7. Madison Keys
8. Petra Martic
9. Johanna Konta
10. Garbine Muguruza
11. Elena Rybakina
12. Marketa Vondrousova
13. Alison Riske
14. Anett Kontaveit
15. Maria Sakkari
16. Elise Mertens
17. Angelique Kerber
18. Donna Vekic
19. Dayana Yastremska
20. Karolina Muchova
21. Ekaterina Alexandrova
22. Amanda Anisimova
23. Yulia Putintseva
24. Magda Linette
25. Zhang Shuai
26. Sloane Stephens
27. Ons Jabeur
28. Jennifer Brady
29. Veronika Kudermetova
30. Kristina Mladenovic
31. Anastasija Sevastova
32. Rebecca Peterson
The Tournament:
The US Open Tennis Championships began life as the U.S. National Championship in 1881. It is a hard court tournament, but was for much of its long duration a grass tournament, and was for a few years even played on clay. The tournament consists of men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, with additional tournaments for senior, junior, and wheelchair players.
The venue for the championship is the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens, New York City. The BJKTC has 3 courts with with a retractable roof: Arthur Ashe stadium, the main show court, the newly renovated Louis Armstrong Stadium and another new show court finished in 2016 to replace the old Grandstand. These are the 3 largest, but Court 17, which has a much smaller capacity, but tends to feature interesting early matches, is very sought after which can lead to long lines.
When visiting the Open, you may purchase a ticket to Ashe, which is the only court with assigned numbered seating. This ticket gives you access to all the other courts, as well, where everything is first-come, first-served, and if you leave your seat you may lose it. During the first week, however, you can buy a much cheaper grounds pass, which gives access to all courts except Ashe.
About New York City:
The Big Apple. The City that Never Sleeps.
Immortalized by the greats: Frank Sinatra, E.B. White, the Ramones. Fashion center, jazz and rap mecca, great melting pot of cultures, and past and present home and inspiration to countless writers, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs and hucksters.
New York City is comprised of 5 boroughs, of which Manhattan is only one, though the most famous. But the tennis is played in Queen’s, which has a fascination all its own. It is the geographically largest borough in NYC, but second in population to Brooklyn, and is the most ethnically diverse. There are 138 languages spoken in Queens, of the 800 recorded in all of NYC. Queens boasts one of the largest Greek communities outside of Greece, the 3rd largest Bosnian population in the US; it has the largest concentration of Ecuadorians, Peruvians, Salvadorans in the city, and its largest concentration of Asians and South Asians, with some of the neighborhoods still very high in concentrations of Italian, Irish and Jewish populations, which are more long-entrenched. There are so many small pockets of great ethnic food here that people from all over the city make pilgrimages to the various neighborhoods to "eat their way around the world."
Prominent figures who hail from Queen’s: Johnny Ramone, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Donald Trump, Nicki Minaj, Kareem Abdul-Jabar, and John McEnroe.
Louis Armstrong, though he was originally from New Orleans and hugely associated with that city, bought a house in a working class neighborhood in Corona, Queens, and lived the last 28 years of his life there. The house is a landmark, which is open to the public. It is very near BJK Tennis Center, and why the stadium is named after him. Before Ashe was built, it was the largest show court at the facility.
BJK Tennis center is adjacent to CitiField, home of the NY Mets baseball team. This is the 50th Anniversery of the “Miracle Mets” World Series win.
Tourism Guide:
TV Coverage:
ESPN: United States and the Pacific commonwealth, Puerto Rico
ESPN International: Latin America Territory (Mexico, Central and South America, Ascension Island), Caribbean (other than Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands) and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand and Pacific)
TSN: Canada
beIN Sports: Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
CCTV: China
Tencent: China
Eurosport: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Commonwealth of Independent States (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan), Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Vatican State, Non-Exclusive: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia
Fox Sports Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
ORG: Austria
Prime Video: United Kingdom, Ireland
SRG SSR: Switzerland
Star India: India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Tennis Channel: United States
Wowow: Japan
Globostat: Brazil
SuperSport: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Socotra, South Africa, St. Helena and Ascension, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe, Non-Exclusive: Chad, Djibouti, Mauritania, Somalia (Somaliland), South Sudan and Sudan
This is a calendar entry.
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