The US Open is to increase its major draw to fifteen days, kicking off a day earlier on Sunday for the event’s first weekend begin within the Open Period.
The US Tennis Affiliation (USTA) introduced the transfer on Wednesday, with the schedule change seeing the boys’s and girls’s singles first rounds play out over three days from Sunday August 24.
The added day will enable major draw entry for an additional 70,000 attendees or extra at Flushing Meadows, after a 3rd straight 12 months of record-breaking attendances in 2024.
The Sunday opener will embrace six new ticketed periods, with day and evening periods for the famed Arthur Ashe Stadium and Louis Armstrong Stadium.
The ultimate Grand Slam of the 12 months will as soon as once more be broadcast solely stay on Sky Sports activities, with protection working from Sunday August 24 by to Sunday September 7.
Throughout Sky Sports activities’ channels, in addition to our digital and social channels, tennis followers can take pleasure in in depth protection of the ultimate Grand Slam of 2025, together with each the boys’s and girls’s singles, alongside the respective doubles tournaments, blended doubles, juniors, and wheelchair competitions.
There will likely be a day by day stay textual content commentary on the Sky Sports activities web site and app, in addition to stay scores, reviews, evaluation, options and movies.
Sinner and Sabalenka go in as defending champs
Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka will return to Flushing Meadows as defending champions, each having clinched maiden US Open titles when profitable final 12 months’s males’s and girls’s singles finals.
Sinner beat American Taylor Fritz 6-3 6-4 7-5, whereas Sabalenka too overcame a house hope within the type of Jessica Pegular, claiming a 7-5 7-5 victory.
Each the present world No 1s, the pair had differing fortunes of their respective finals within the opening Grand Slam of 2025 on the Australian Open.
Sinner clinched a 3rd slam success with one other straight-sets victory over Alexander Zverev, whereas Sabalenka misplaced out to Madison Keys in an exciting three-setter.
Watch the ATP and WTA Excursions, in addition to the US Open in New York, stay on Sky Sports activities in 2025 or stream with NOW and the Sky Sports activities app, giving Sky Sports activities clients entry to over 50 per cent extra stay sport this 12 months at no additional price. Discover out extra right here.