In this article we will analyze the importance of US Open Series in today's society. _Var1 has been a fundamental part of human history and its impact has been transcendental in various areas, from politics to science. Over the years, US Open Series has sparked great interest and debate among experts and hobbyists, thus generating endless research and studies that highlight its relevance in everyday life. Through this analysis, we aim to shed light on the significant influence of US Open Series on different aspects of modern life and its role in shaping our current world.
The US Open Series is the name given by the United States Tennis Association (USTA) to a series of North American professional tennis tournaments leading up to and including the US Open. It is part of the "North American hard court season". Emirates sponsored the series in the past, under a deal in place from 2012 to 2016. The series was initially organized in 2004 as a way to focus more attention on American tennis tournaments by getting more of them on domestic television. Until 2004, most summer North American tournaments were not on television, the exceptions being the prominent ATP Tour Masters 1000 events in Canada and Cincinnati. Since the inception of the series, Rafael Nadal is the only tennis player to win Canada, Cincinnati, and the US Open in a calendar year (2013), a feat referred to as the "Summer Slam" or the "North American Hardcourt Slam".
Under the US Open's broadcast rights, ESPN held domestic rights to all US Open Series events from 2015 to 2019. The eight non-Masters tournaments receive about 50 hours of television combined – about two hours on each day of their final weekends, chiefly on ESPN2. The dual-gender Washington D.C. Citi Open (the only ATP 500-level tournament in North America), which had been a part of the series since its 2004 founding, withdrew from the series for its 2015 edition due to frustrations over this lack of coverage; that tournament sold its exclusive coverage to Tennis Channel. The tournament re-joined the US Open Series in 2019. Since 2017, Tennis Channel broadcasts the US Open Series.
Players earn points for the US Open Series Bonus Challenge in order to win a bonus on top of the individual series tournaments' prize money, according to their results in these events. More points are awarded at some of the events, such as the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and WTA Premier 5 events. The three male and three female players with the most points in the US Open Series Bonus Challenge earn a money purse. The amount depends on their US Open Series placement and US Open result. If both are won then the bonus is $1 million as of 2010. Lleyton Hewitt and Lindsay Davenport were the top point-getters in 2004, Andy Roddick and Kim Clijsters won in 2005, and Andy Roddick and Ana Ivanovic won in 2006. Defending US Open champions Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova won in 2007. In 2005, whereas Roddick was upset in the first round against Gilles Müller at the Open, Clijsters became the first player to win both the US Open Series and the US Open, receiving $2.2 million, at the time the largest payday in women's sports. Clijsters defeated Frenchwoman Mary Pierce in straight sets: 6–3, 6–1. In 2010 she won $2.2 million again, this time $1.7 million for the US Open title and $500,000 in bonus for second place in the US Open Series. In 2007, Federer became the first male player and the second player overall to win the US Open Series and go on to win the US Open, winning $1.4 million plus the US Open Series bonus of $1 million, bringing his prize winning total to $2.4 million. This topped Clijsters' $2.2 million as the biggest US Open payday to date. In 2013, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal both won the US Open after also winning the US Open Series. Due to several considerable prize money increments over the years, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal surpassed Roger Federer's Us Open series payday record by winning $3.6 million each, and they shared the record for the largest prize money paycheck in tennis history for a single tennis tournament. In 2014, Serena Williams would repeat her previous year performance in winning both the US Open Series and the US Open. She now stands alone in the record for the biggest payday in tennis history, with a total amount of $4 million. Starting from 2017, the US Open Series will not feature a Bonus Challenge.
Legend |
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Grand Slam |
ATP Tour Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 |
ATP Tour 500 & 250 and WTA 500 & 250 |
In 2023, the US Open Series comprises the following tournaments:
Week | Men's events | Women's events | |
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1 (Week of July 23) |
Newport Hall of Fame Open |
— | |
2 (Week of July 30) |
Atlanta Atlanta Open |
— | |
3 (Week of August 6) |
Washington, D.C. Mubadula Citi Open | ||
4 (Week of August 13) |
Montreal/Toronto National Bank Open presented by Rogers | ||
5 (Week of August 20) |
Cincinnati Western & Southern Open | ||
6 (Week of August 27) |
Winston-Salem Winston-Salem Open |
Cleveland Tennis in the Land | |
7–8 (Weeks of September 3 / September 10) |
New York US Open |
Round | ATP Masters 1000 WTA Premier 5 |
ATP World Tour 500 & 250 WTA Premier |
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Winner | 100 |
70
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Finalist | 70 |
45
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Semifinalist | 45 |
25
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Quarterfinalist | 25 |
15
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Round of 16 | 15 |
0
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Round | ATP Masters Series WTA Tour Tier I |
ATP International Series WTA Tour Tier II |
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Winner | 100 |
50
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Finalist | 70 |
35
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Semifinalist | 45 |
22
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Quarterfinalist | 25 |
12
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Round of 16 | 15 |
0
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Round | ATP Masters Series WTA Tour Tier I |
WTA Tour Tier II | ATP International Series ($600,000 and above) |
ATP International Series (below $600,000) |
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Winner | 100 |
50 |
40 |
35
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Finalist | 70 |
35 |
28 |
24
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Semifinalist | 45 |
22 |
18 |
15
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Quarterfinalist | 25 |
12 |
10 |
8
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Round of 16 | 15 |
0 |
0 |
0
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Year | Newport | Los Angeles | Indianapolis/Atlanta | Washington | Montreal/Toronto | Cincinnati | New Haven/Winston-Salem |
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2004 | Not US Open Series | Haas (1/2) | Roddick (1/5) | Hewitt (1/2) | Federer (1/9) | Agassi (1/2) | Hewitt (2/2) |
2005 | Agassi (2/2) | Ginepri (1/2) | Roddick (2/5) | Nadal (1/6) | Federer (2/9) | Blake (1/3) | |
2006 | Haas (2/2) | Blake (2/3) | Clément (1/1) | Federer (3/9) | Roddick (3/5) | Davydenko (1/1) | |
2007 | Štěpánek (1/2) | Tursunov (1/1) | Roddick (4/5) | Djokovic (1/6) | Federer (4/9) | Blake (3/3) | |
2008 | Del Potro (1/4) | Simon (1/1) | Del Potro (2/4) | Nadal (2/6) | Murray (1/5) | Čilić (1/2) | |
2009 | Querrey (1/3) | Ginepri (2/2) | Del Potro (3/4) | Murray (2/5) | Federer (5/9) | Verdasco (1/1) | |
2010 | Querrey (2/3) | Fish (1/2) | Nalbandian (1/1) | Murray (3/5) | Federer (6/9) | Stakhovsky (1/1) | |
2011 | Gulbis (1/1) | Fish (2/2) | Štěpánek (2/2) | Djokovic (2/6) | Murray (4/5) | Isner (1/8) | |
2012 | Querrey (3/3) | Roddick (5/5) | Dolgopolov (1/1) | Djokovic (3/6) | Federer (7/9) | Isner (2/8) | |
2013 | Not held | Isner (3/8) | Del Potro (4/4) | Nadal (3/6) | Nadal (4/6) | Melzer (1/1) | |
2014 | Isner (4/8) | Raonic (1/1) | Tsonga (1/1) | Federer (8/9) | Rosol (1/1) | ||
2015 | Isner (5/8) | Not US Open Series | Murray (5/5) | Federer (9/9) | Anderson (1/2) | ||
2016 | Kyrgios (1/2) | Djokovic (4/6) | Čilić (2/2) | Carreño Busta (1/1) | |||
2017 | Isner (6/8) | Zverev (1/2) | Dimitrov (1/1) | Bautista Agut (1/1) | |||
2018 | Isner (7/8) | Nadal (5/6) | Djokovic (5/6) | Medvedev (1/3) | |||
2019 | de Minaur (1/1) | Kyrgios (2/2) | Nadal (6/6) | Medvedev (2/3) | Hurkacz (1/1) | ||
2020 | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Djokovic (6/6) | Cancelled | |
2021 | Anderson (2/2) | Isner (8/8) | Sinner (1/1) | Medvedev (3/3) | Zverev (2/2) | Ivashka (1/1) |
Year | Stanford/San José | San Diego/Carlsbad | Los Angeles/Washington | Cincinnati | Montreal/Toronto | New Haven | Cleveland |
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2004 | Davenport (1/4) | Davenport (2/4) | Davenport (3/4) | Not US Open Series | Mauresmo (1/1) | Bovina (1/1) | Not held |
2005 | Clijsters (1/5) | Pierce (1/1) | Clijsters (2/5) | Clijsters (3/5) | Davenport (4/4) | ||
2006 | Clijsters (4/5) | Sharapova (1/3) | Dementieva (1/2) | Ivanovic (1/2) | Henin (1/2) | ||
2007 | Chakvetadze (1/1) | Sharapova (2/3) | Ivanovic (2/2) | Henin (2/2) | Kuznetsova (1/2) | ||
2008 | Wozniak (1/1) | Not held | Safina (1/2) | Safina (2/2) | Wozniacki (1/5) | ||
2009 | Bartoli (1/1) | Pennetta (1/1) | Janković (1/1) | Dementieva (2/2) | Wozniacki (2/5) | ||
2010 | Azarenka (1/3) | Kuznetsova (2/2) | Not held | Clijsters (5/5) | Wozniacki (3/5) | Wozniacki (4/5) | |
2011 | S. Williams (1/7) | Radwańska (1/3) | Sharapova (3/3) | S. Williams (2/7) | Wozniacki (5/5) | ||
2012 | S. Williams (3/7) | Cibulková (1/2) | Rybáriková (1/1) | Li (1/1) | Kvitová (1/4) | Kvitová (2/4) | |
2013 | Cibulková (2/2) | Stosur (1/1) | Not US Open Series | Azarenka (2/3) | S. Williams (4/7) | Halep (1/3) | |
2014 | S. Williams (5/7) | Not held | S. Williams (6/7) | Radwańska (2/3) | Kvitová (3/4) | ||
2015 | Kerber (1/1) | Not US Open Series | S. Williams (7/7) | Bencic (1/1) | Kvitová (4/4) | ||
2016 | Konta (1/1) | Not held | Ka. Plíšková (1/1) | Halep (2/3) | Radwańska (3/3) | ||
2017 | Keys (1/2) | Muguruza (1/1) | Svitolina (1/1) | Gavrilova (1/1) | |||
2018 | Buzărnescu (1/1) | Bertens (1/1) | Halep (3/3) | Sabalenka (1/1) | |||
2019 | Zheng (1/1) | Keys (2/2) | Andreescu (1/1) | Not held | |||
2020 | Cancelled | Azarenka (3/3) | Cancelled | ||||
2021 | Collins (1/1) | Barty (1/1) | Giorgi (1/1) | Kontaveit (1/1) |
Note: From 2006 on, only players who earned points in at least two US Open Series events are eligible for the final (Top 3) standings.
US Open results | |||
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A | did not participate in the tournament | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament |
QF | advanced to but not past the quarterfinals | SF | advanced to but not past the semifinals |
F | advanced to the finals, tournament runner-up | W | won the tournament |