Tennis US Open History

The US Open is celebrating its 128th year. It began as an amateur event known as the US National Championships and has become the most profitable tennis tournament on the planet. Competition expanded from a single men's tournament that entertained the upper class to a tournament that now includes women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles.

In August 1881, the inaugural U.S. National Championships took place in Newport Casino, Newport, R.I. Back then, the tournament was only open to members of the US National Lawn Tennis Association. Newport would remain the country's tennis center for 34 years. The first official women's national singles championship took place at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in 1887, followed by the women's doubles two years later. In 1892, the U.S. Mixed Doubles Championship officially started.

In 1968, all five major US tennis championships were combined into the US Open at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hill, Queens, New York. That year, a prize purse worth $100,000 was offered to 96 male participants and 63 female participants. In 1978, the event moved from Forest Hills to its current home at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the Queens borough of New York City.

In 2008 Roger Federer defeated Andy Murray in three sets to successfully defended his title, becoming the first man in the open era to win five straight U.S. Open titles, while on the women's side Serena Williams won her third U.S. Open title by defeating Serbian Jelena Jankovic 6-4, 7-5.

Currently, over $19.6 million are offered in prizes by the US Open to more thay 600 men and women.

US Open Tennis Information

Five different divisions make up the two-week tournament including the men and women's singles, the men and women's doubles and the mixed doubles. The US Open Tennis Tournament evolved from the US National Championships. Currently, it is the most profitable professional tennis event in the world. It is open to both amateurs and professionals.

The new millennium continues to bring record crowds into the USTA National Tennis Center where fans witness tennis history in the making. Join some 24,000 tennis fanatics at Arthur Ashe Stadium to witness the best in the sport of tennis.

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