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DATE: August 26 - September 7, 2019
SURFACE: HARD
PRIZE MONEY: $27,047,500
FIELD SIZE: 128
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Naomi Osaka
Seeds:
1. Naomi Osaka
2. Ashleigh Barty
3. Karolina Pliskova
4. Simona Halep
5. Elina Svitolia
6. Petra Kvitova
7. Kiki Bertens
8. Serena Williams
9. Aryna Sabalenka
10. Madison Keys
11. Sloane Stephens
12. Anastasija Sevastova
13. Belinda Bencic
14. Angelique Kerber
15. Bianca Andreescu
16. Johanna Konta
17. Marketa Vondrousova
18. Qiang Wang
19. Caroline Wozniacki
20. Sofia Kenin
21. Anett Kontaveit
22. Petra Martic
23. Donna Vekic
24. Garbine Muguruza
25. Elise Mertens
26. Julia Goerges
27. Caroline Garcia
28. Carla Suarez Navarro
29. Su-Wei Hsieh
30. Maria Sakkari
31. Barbora Strycova
32. Dayana Yastremska
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:
SURFACE: HARD
PRIZE MONEY: $27,047,500
FIELD SIZE: 128
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Naomi Osaka
Seeds:
1. Naomi Osaka
2. Ashleigh Barty
3. Karolina Pliskova
4. Simona Halep
5. Elina Svitolia
6. Petra Kvitova
7. Kiki Bertens
8. Serena Williams
9. Aryna Sabalenka
10. Madison Keys
11. Sloane Stephens
12. Anastasija Sevastova
13. Belinda Bencic
14. Angelique Kerber
15. Bianca Andreescu
16. Johanna Konta
17. Marketa Vondrousova
18. Qiang Wang
19. Caroline Wozniacki
20. Sofia Kenin
21. Anett Kontaveit
22. Petra Martic
23. Donna Vekic
24. Garbine Muguruza
25. Elise Mertens
26. Julia Goerges
27. Caroline Garcia
28. Carla Suarez Navarro
29. Su-Wei Hsieh
30. Maria Sakkari
31. Barbora Strycova
32. Dayana Yastremska
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.
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