By Tennis Now Workers | @Tennis_Now | Monday, September 11, 2024
The US Open celebrated 50 years of equal prize cash.
Gamers and followers pumped up the occasion to record-setting ranges.
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The USTA at present launched some 2023 US Open stats that present record-setting attendance and digital progress to the event’s official web site.
Among the many stats, officers issued at present:
On the Courtroom
Nineteen-year-old American Coco Gauff captured the hearts of America by successful her first main singles title, defeating Aryna Sabalenka in entrance of a document girls’s singles crowd of 28,143.
Gauff is just the third American teenager to win the US Open girls’s singles championship, becoming a member of Serena Williams (1999) and Tracy Austin (1979, ‘81), and her gutsy, come-from-behind performances – three victories coming after dropping the primary set – had solely been matched within the Open Period by Serena Williams in 1999.
Novak Djokovic gained his record-extending twenty fourth Grand Slam males’s singles title, defeating Daniil Medvedev. It’s the fourth US Open males’s singles title for the 36-year-old Serbian, who’s now the oldest males’s singles champion in US Open historical past. No different participant has gained 24 Grand Slam singles titles within the Open Period (since 1968).
People continued to set the tempo for the world at giant on the courtroom. Forty-three People competed within the males’s and ladies’s singles primary attracts on the US Open, capping a yr during which the U.S. led all nations in singles primary draw individuals at each Grand Slam. 4 People reached the second week of the primary attract each males’s and ladies’s singles, the primary yr for these numbers collectively since 2002.
Three U.S. males – 25-year olds Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe and 20-year-old Ben Shelton – additionally reached the quarterfinals, essentially the most on the US Open since 2005, whereas Shelton grew to become the youngest American US Open males’s semifinalist since Andy Roddick in 2002.
Dutch wheelchair participant Diede de Groot gained her sixth US Open singles title, tying Esther Vergeer’s document, and her twelfth consecutive wheelchair main, finishing three consecutive calendar-year Grand Slams. The US Open Wheelchair Championships contested the primary Wheelchair Grand Slam occasion the place all three grownup divisions – males’s, girls’s and quad – had 16 rivals within the singles subject and eight groups within the doubles subject.
File-Breaking Attendance
The US Open reached new heights for attendance in 2023, breaking its two- and three-week attendance information and turning into the primary Grand Slam to welcome greater than 950,000 spectators over a three-week interval.
The US Open welcomed 957,387 followers over the 20 days encompassing the Principal Draw and Fan Week, a close to 8-percent enhance over 2022. The US Open’s 2023 primary draw attendance was a US Open document 799,402. All 25 classes in Arthur Ashe Stadium offered out for the second yr in a row.
The primary six days of the primary draw had been the six highest-attended days in US Open historical past, whereas each the Males’s (28,804) and Girls’s Championship (28,143) classes had been the highest-attended Championship classes in US Open historical past. The document Fan Week attendance of 157,985 outpaced 2022 by 41 p.c.
Digital and Social Progress
The US Open’s digital platforms, powered by IBM, had a record-setting yr with site visitors of over 15 million distinctive gadgets in the course of the occasion’s three weeks, a 17-percent enhance over 2022. Complete interactions and views throughout the US Open’s official social media channels on Fb, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok and Snapchat reached over 1.5 billion engagements over Fan Week and the Principal Draw, an all-time excessive and 50-percent progress over 2022. Greater than 3 million distinctive gadgets seen information articles on USOpen.org and the US Open app by the three weeks of the occasion, a 40-percent enhance over 2022. The US Open’s Champions of the Courtroom expertise on Roblox had over 1.2 million whole visits in its first 18 days. Worldwide Viewership
Over 15,000 hours of US Open protection from all 951 competitors matches had been produced for broadcast on 50-plus channels in additional than 175 international locations and territories. Home broadcast highlights from ESPN and its networks’ 2023 protection included almost 140 hours on TV, by way of ESPN and ESPN2, and stay protection on ABC on the center Sunday of the primary draw for the primary time ever. Greater than 1,000 hours of protection from all matches and courts streamed stay on the ESPNApp, throughout ESPN+ and ESPN3.
Rising the Sport
The USTA dedicated $3 million—equaling the singles champions’ prize cash—to the refurbishment of as much as 200 courts throughout the nation in Coco Gauff’s title as a part of the newly created US Open Legacy Initiative. In future instances of an American US Open Males’s or Girls’s Singles Champion, the USTA will make an identical dedication to advancing the USTA mission of selling and growing the expansion of tennis throughout the nation.
Celebrating 50 Years of Equal Prize Cash
The celebration of the fiftieth Anniversary of Equal Prize Cash was a outstanding theme all through the occasion.
Billie Jean King helped open the event, as a part of a strong Opening Night time ceremony that featured former First Woman Michelle Obama, and in addition closed it, handing off the Girls’s Singles championship trophy to the youngest American US Open girls’s singles champion in 24 years.
The celebration of equality additionally culminated with Champions of Equality, a Be Open occasion introduced by Cadillac, that noticed King and Venus Williams earn particular recognition throughout a dynamic dialog with Common Motors’ Chief Range, Fairness and Inclusion Officer Telva McGruder and famend broadcast journalist Christiane Amanpour. Sixteen pioneering girls from the USTA Sections had been additionally honored on the occasion for his or her management in selling equality on the grassroots ranges.
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