US Open tennis records: All of these Grand Slam champions

The US Open Tennisthe latter Grand Slam of the time, was disputed in the city of New York. It has had great champions in its history, such as Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer, André Agassi, Rafa Nadal or Novak Djokovic.

The tournament has been established on hard courts for decades, but some editions are played on clay or grass. The event has a stunning center court, the Arthur Ashein the complex of Flushing Meadows.

The tournament is one of the four most important tennis tournaments, the Grand Slam. Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Openon the last dates of August and the first of September, are the four major tennis tournaments.

The Arthur Ashe It is the largest center court in the world, with an amazing retractable roof. It is on Corona Park, in the neighborhood of Queens. This is the most important part of USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and the main tennis tournament stadium US Openwith a capacity of 23,771 spectators.

US Open tennis records

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The palmares of US Open was crowned the best tennis players in history. Richard Sears he won the first seven editions (1881-1887), in a tournament where there was no non-American champion tennis player until 1903. Lawrence Doherty he was the first Briton to win The US Openwhere William Learned and Bill Tilden they also conquered it seven and six times, respectively.

Manolo Santana, Manolo Orantes and Rafa Nadal were the Spanish who won the USOpen. Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras and Roger Federer they won the tournament five times.

Tennis players with the most US Open titles in history

The tennis players with the most titles in the history of US Open They started out as locals, as they played the tournament almost exclusively. Richard Sears he won it in the first seven editions, from 1881-1887, but later William Larned which also won seven times.

bill tilden he also won it seven times, between 1920 and 1925 consecutively. JImmy Connors and Pete Sampras they also won the tournament five times, as they did Roger Federer, which between 2004-2008 won The United States Open also five times in a row.

US Open History: Since when was the tournament played?

The United States Open emerged from the merger of two independent contests, the men’s, first held on August 31, 1881, at the Newport Casino complex, in Newport (Rhode Island), and where the future is women.

The only one accepted then was the men’s singles, which is where the tournament was called ‘US National Singles Championship’. At the time, the only clubs that were members of United States National Lawn Tennis Association.

In the year 1900, the United States men’s national doubles championship was performed for the first time. It was not until 1968, with the arrival of is open and professionalism, when five events came together in US Open and that took place in West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York. The competitions are characterized from this year by the reception of professionals for the first time in the history of the tournament. In 1968, 96 men and 63 women participated in the event, which awarded $100,000 in prizes.

In 1978, the tournament moved from Forest Hills to Flushing Meadows, its current headquarters. Center court is Arthur Ashein honor of the country’s tennis player who got the first US Open in 1968. The current surface is hard court, but it is played on clay and grass. In 2006, the name of the complex where the tournament was held was changed USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in honor of multiple North American champions Billie Jean King.