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The US Open 2008

The US Open 2008

• Location Flushing, New York City, United States
• First Played in 1881
• Venue USTA National Tennis Center
• Surface Hard / Outdoors
• Men's draw 128S / 128Q / 64D
• Women's draw $7,000,000
• Prize money US$19,600,000
• Official Site

The US Open tennis tournament is one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, first contested in 1881.

The tournament is chronologically the fourth and final event of the Grand Slam tennis tournaments. It is held annually in August and September over a two-week period (the weeks before and after Labor Day weekend). The main tournament consists of five championships: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, with additional tournaments for senior, junior, and wheelchair players. Since 1978, the tournament has been played on acrylic hard court at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the Queens borough of New York City.

The US Open differs from the other three Grand Slam tournaments in that there are final-set tiebreaks. In the other three majors, the fifth set for the men and the third set for the women continue until someone wins by two games.

Six years after the men's nationals were held, the first official U.S. Women's National Singles Championship was held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in 1887, followed by the U.S. Women's National Doubles Championship in 1889. The first U.S. Mixed Doubles Championship was held alongside the Women's Singles and Doubles.

2007 Winners

Roger Federer's Official Site

Roger Federer

By winning the 2007 U.S. Open, Federer became the first player in the Open era to win four consecutive U.S. Open titles and the only player ever to win back-to-back Wimbledon and U.S. Open titles for four consecutive years (from 2004).

Justine Henin

Justine Henin's Official Site

Henin played at top form during her run to the 2007 U.S. Open championship.Henin won her second U.S. Open after being denied last year against Maria Sharapova. The U.S. Open victory took Henin past the $17 million mark in career prize money.

Interesting Facts

Men's record holders for most wins since 1925:
• All competitions: before 1968: Bill Larned; Bill Tilden; Richard Sears (USA), 7.
• Singles: (since 1968) Jimmy Connors; Pete Sampras (USA), 5.

Consecutive singles titles:
• before 1968: Richard Sears (USA), 7.
• since 1968: Roger Federer (SWI), 4.

Ladies' record holders for most wins since 1887:
• All competitions: (Before 1968) Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (USA), 8.
• Singles: (Since 1968:) Chris Evert (USA), 7.

Consecutive singles titles:
• before 1968: Molla Mallory; Helen Jacobs (USA), 4.
• since 1968: Chris Evert (USA), 4.

Defending champions:
• Men: Roger Federer
• Women: Justine Henin

Last American singles champions:
• Men: Andy Roddick (2003)
• Women: Serena Williams (2002)

The US Open History

The US Open grew from an exclusive entertainment event for high society to a $17 million prize money championship (about $1.4 million for each of the winners of the singles tournaments) for over 600 male and female professional players. In 2008 the prize money will top 120.6 million dollars in total.

The US Open originated from two separate tournaments: the men's tournament and the women's tournament. The event was first held in August 1881 and staged at the Newport Casino, Newport, Rhode Island (men's singles only). The championships were known as the U.S. National Singles Championship for men. | More History

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