| 2020 US Open | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | August 31 – September 13 | |||
| Edition | 140th | |||
| Category | Grand Slam (ITF) | |||
| Draw | 128 singles players, 32 doubles pairs | |||
| Prize money | US$53,402,000 | |||
| Surface | Hard | |||
| Location | New York City, United States | |||
| Venue | USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center | |||
| Champions | ||||
| Men's singles | ||||
 Dominic Thiem | ||||
| Women's singles | ||||
 Naomi Osaka | ||||
| Men's doubles | ||||
 Mate Pavić / Bruno Soares | ||||
| Women's doubles | ||||
 Laura Siegemund / Vera Zvonareva | ||||
| Wheelchair men's singles | ||||
| Shingo Kunieda | ||||
| Wheelchair women's singles | ||||
 Diede de Groot | ||||
| Wheelchair quad singles | ||||
| Sam Schröder | ||||
| Wheelchair men's doubles | ||||
 Alfie Hewett /Gordon Reid | ||||
| Wheelchair women's doubles | ||||
| Yui Kamiji /Jordanne Whiley | ||||
| Wheelchair quad doubles | ||||
 Dylan Alcott /Andy Lapthorne | ||||
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The2020 US Open was the 140th edition oftennis'sUS Open and the secondGrand Slam event of the year. It was held on outdoorhard courts at theUSTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center inQueens, New York. The tournament was an event run by theInternational Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the calendars for the2020 ATP Tour and the2020 WTA Tour, the top professional men's and women's tennis circuits, respectively.
Held during theCOVID-19 pandemic, the tournament saw changes in format and personnel compared to previous editions. As a result, withdrawals and opt-outs became a theme of the competition. Defending men's singles champion and world No. 2Rafael Nadal and No. 9Gaël Monfils withdrew due to COVID-19 safety concerns, while No. 4Roger Federer, No. 12Fabio Fognini, and No. 15Stan Wawrinka opted out for other reasons. On the women's side, defending singles champion and world No. 6Bianca Andreescu did not return due to safety concerns, nor did No. 1Ashleigh Barty, No. 2Simona Halep, or No. 5Elina Svitolina, among others. Further, the qualifying rounds of the tournament, in addition to the mixed doubles and juniors draws, were not held due to the pandemic.
Men's singles world No. 1Novak Djokovic made headlines by becoming the first top-seeded player to be disqualified from a Grand Slam singles tournament when he wasdefaulted from his fourth-round match for hitting a ball out of frustration that inadvertently hit a line judge in the throat. Although accidental, Djokovic's actions were deemed to be in violation of a Grand Slam rule regarding ball abuse, and he was disqualified from the tournament.
Dominic Thiem won the men's singles title for his first Grand Slam title. He became the first new Grand Slam men's singles champion since2014 with his five-set defeat of first-time Grand Slam finalistAlexander Zverev. The women's singles competition was won byNaomi Osaka, who defeatedVictoria Azarenka in three sets to capture her second US Open title and third Grand Slam title overall. Osaka arrived to the final wearing a blackface mask bearing the name ofTamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy shot to death inCleveland in November 2014. The tournament took place during theGeorge Floyd protests, and Osaka wore similar masks for each of her other six matches, each with a different name of a Black American who died as a result of unjust violence from police or other citizens in the United States.
The 2020 US Open was the 140th edition of the tournament and took place at theUSTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center inFlushing Meadows–Corona Park ofQueens in New York City, United States, where it has been held since 1978.[1] The tournament was held on 17Laykold hard courts for the first time.[2]
The tournament consisted of the men's and women's singles and doubles draws, men's and women's wheelchair singles and doubles draws and a wheelchair quad singles and doubles draw. Both doubles draws were cut to 32 pairs instead of the standard 64. Due COVID protocol decisions made by theNew York state government, the USTA and US Open cancelled the draws for qualifying matches, mixed doubles, and junior matches, a decision that was sharply criticized by lower-ranked players, bringing accusations of the tournament "catering to the top".[3] The wheelchair events were initially not scheduled to be held, due to a change that would have removed them from the event every four years due to a conflict with theSummer Paralympic Games, but the events were reinstated following the postponement of the2020 Summer Paralympics to 2021 and criticism from several wheelchair players, notablyDylan Alcott.[4][5][6]
The tournament used two of the three main show courts at the National Tennis Center –Arthur Ashe Stadium andLouis Armstrong Stadium. Five of the complex's 18 total courts, includingGrandstand, the main stadium of the2020 Western & Southern Open, which was held in New York City instead of its usualCincinnati venue,[7] were not used for the tournament due to the lack of players.[8]
The US Open is normally the finalmajor tournament of the year, scheduled during August and September. It was instead the second major of the year due to the cancellation ofWimbledon to June 2021 and the rescheduling of theFrench Open to late September.[9][10] In June 2020, it was announced that the event would take placewithout spectators for the first time in the tournament's history, and the first time in all the Grand Slam tournaments' 143-year history, due to concerns relating to the ongoingCOVID-19 pandemic.[11] Players would not be required toquarantine upon arrival, but were subject to regularCOVID-19 testing, both prior to arrival and throughout the tournament, and all players and personnel were required to wear aface mask upon entering the grounds except while practicing, training, and working out.[4] To reduce staff,electronic line judges were used on most matches, excluding those held on the two main show courts.[12][13]
In the event a player was deemed a close contact of someone who had tested positive, theUnited States Tennis Association (USTA) and New York City health officials initially stated that the player could continue play, but would be subject to "enhanced" health protocol, including daily testing and restricted access to facilities.[14] On September 5, the USTA announced that health officials inNassau County, where most players were residing in hotels, had issued 14-day quarantine orders "for all individuals who had prolonged close contact to a person who previously tested positive", thus impacting their ability to continue competing in the tournament.[15]
The effects of the virus were seen both before and during the tournament. COVID-19 precautions necessitated the cancellation of the qualification matches and theATP andWTA rankings were the sole metric used to determine entry into the tournament aside from wild cards. Each singles field contained 120 players who gained entry via their ranking and eight wild card entries. This differed from previous years where 16 players in both men's and women's singles entered their draws through qualifying.[16]
Many players cited safety concerns due to the pandemic as reason to withdraw from the tournament prior to its start, including men's playersRafael Nadal,Gaël Monfils,Stan Wawrinka,Alexei Popyrin,Nick Kyrgios, andKei Nishikori, and women's playersBianca Andreescu,Simona Halep,Ashleigh Barty,Elina Svitolina,Kiki Bertens,Belinda Bencic,Wang Qiang, andBarbora Strýcová, among others.[17][18] All in all, the women's singles competition was hit the hardest, as 24 of the top 100 ranked players were absent from the competition.[19] In addition,Benoît Paire was forced to drop out of the tournament due to a positive COVID-19 test.[20][21] This test also led to the forced withdrawal of the top-seeded women's doubles duo ofTímea Babos andKristina Mladenovic prior to their second round match due to potential exposure to Paire.[21][22] Additionally, the men's singles third round match betweenAlexander Zverev andAdrian Mannarino was delayed for three hours due to a "collaborative dialogue with health officials", as a tournament statement phrased it, to determine whether Mannarino could play in the match after his exposure to Paire.[23][24]
The men's singles competition featured seven players ranked in the top 10 in the ATP rankings at the time of the tournament.[25] World No. 1Novak Djokovic received the top seed, followed byDominic Thiem,Daniil Medvedev, andStefanos Tsitsipas.[26] Djokovic was the clear odds-on betting favorite entering the competition, followed by the other top four seeds.[27] Three previous US Open champions, as well as two previous finalists, were included in the field: Djokovic, a three-time champion; one-time championsAndy Murray andMarin Čilić; and one-time finalistsKevin Anderson, entering as a replacement forNick Kyrgios,[28] andDaniil Medvedev.[29] Several notable players were missing for non-COVID-19 issues. No. 4 ranked and five-time championRoger Federer was injured, while No. 12Fabio Fognini and No. 15Stan Wawrinka opted out to prepare for the upcoming clay court season.[18][30][31] Eight players, all from the United States, entered the draw aswild cards, and three players with aprotected ranking, including American playerJack Sock, who replaced Federer.[32]
The women's singles tournament was far more affected by withdrawals than the men's singles; of the players ranked in the top ten, only four competed.[26][33] The top seed in the draw went to world No. 3Karolína Plíšková, followed bySofia Kenin,Serena Williams, andNaomi Osaka.[34] Despite being seeded third and fourth, Williams and Osaka entered the tournament as odds-on favorites, having been given equal betting odds to win the title, followed by Plíšková and Kenin.[27] Included in the draw were five previous US Open champions: six-time champion Serena Williams, two-time championVenus Williams, three-time championKim Clijsters, who entered as a wild card, and one-time championsAngelique Kerber andSloane Stephens.[26] Three previous finalists also competed:Victoria Azarenka, Karolína Plíšková, andMadison Keys.[26] Previous championsSvetlana Kuznetsova andSamantha Stosur were scheduled to compete in the event, but withdrew prior to the competition.[35][36][18] Eight players, consisting of Clijsters and seven American players, gained entry to the tournament as wild cards, while five were entered with a protected ranking and an additional two competed as alternates.[26]
Doubles draws were topped byJuan Sebastián Cabal andRobert Farah on the men's side, andTímea Babos andKristina Mladenovic on the women's side.[37] Each draw contained 32 pairs, with four wild card entries.[37]
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Dominic Thiem def.Alexander Zverev, 2–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3, 7–6(8–6)The men's singles tournament began on August 31, withNovak Djokovic holding the top seed[40] and top playersRoger Federer andRafael Nadal opting out.[32][41] Ten seeded players suffered defeats in the first two rounds, including 9th seedDiego Schwartzman, who lost in the first round toCameron Norrie.[42] The third round eliminated a further eight seeded players, most notably 4-seedStefanos Tsitsipas, who fell in a fifth-settiebreak toBorna Ćorić,[43] and 11-seedKaren Khachanov, who lost toAlex de Minaur despite the latter's second-setbagel and subsequent third-set code violation for racket abuse.[44][45]
Much of the action in the tournament's fourth round was overshadowed by controversy surrounding top seed Novak Djokovic's match against 20th seedPablo Carreño Busta. After losing a point while trailing 5–6 in the first set, Djokovic hit a ball out of frustration that hit a line judge in the throat, which violated a Grand Slam rule regarding ball abuse.[46] Djokovic wasdefaulted from the match by the tournament referee,[46] marking the first time a top-seeded player had been disqualified from a Grand Slam singles tournament.[47] This disqualification ensured that the top half of the men's singles draw would produce a first-time Grand Slam finalist, and that this tournament would be the first Grand Slam since2004 without Djokovic, Roger Federer, or Rafael Nadal participating in the semifinal round.[48]
The quarterfinals took place on September 8–9. The top two remaining seeds, 2-seedDominic Thiem and 3-seedDaniil Medvedev, both advanced in straight sets,[49] while 5-seedAlexander Zverev advanced in four sets and 20-seed Pablo Carreño Busta advanced in five.[50] Thiem took his semifinal match over Medvedev in straight sets, while Carreño Busta won the first two sets before losing the final three to Zverev; this was Zverev's first comeback win from two sets down.[49] This set up a final between Thiem, making his fourth Grand Slam finals appearance, and Zverev, making his first; both players were seeking their first Grand Slam title.[51] Zverev, the underdog,[52] jumped out to an early advantage, taking the first and second sets. Thiem battled back in the third and fourth sets. This set up a fifth and final set, which remained close until the end and was eventually won by Thiem in a tiebreak, after four hours and one minute,[53] making Thiem the first new Grand Slam winner in six years.[54] This also marked the first time sincePancho Gonzalez in1949 that a two-set deficit had been overcome in a US Open final.[52]
Naomi Osaka def.
Victoria Azarenka, 1–6, 6–3, 6–3The women's singles tournament began August 31, withKarolína Plíšková holding the top seed.[40] 29 of the 32 seeded players in the women's singles draw advanced to the second round, the most since the US Open began seeding 32 singles players rather than 16 in2001.[55]Serena Williams made history in her first round match againstKristie Ahn by becoming the winningest player in US Open history, having won her 102nd match.[56] The second round, however, saw the exit of eleven seeded players, notably 1-seed Plíšková and 5-seedAryna Sabalenka, who both fell in the second round in straight sets againstCaroline Garcia andVictoria Azarenka, respectively.[55][57] In the third round, 7-seedMadison Keys was forced to retire from her match againstAlizé Cornet in the second set after suffering an injury, putting Cornet through to her first-ever US Open round of 16.[58] The fourth round saw three more top-ten seeds fall, notably 2-seedSofia Kenin, who lost toElise Mertens,[59] and 6-seedPetra Kvitová, who was upset byShelby Rogers.[60]
This left the third- and fourth-seeded players, Serena Williams andNaomi Osaka, as the top two players headed into the quarterfinals. Each faced an unseeded player, as Williams defeatedTsvetana Pironkova in three sets and Osaka beat Rogers in two.[61][62] The other two quarterfinals saw 28-seedJennifer Brady defeat 23-seedYulia Putintseva,[63] and unseeded Victoria Azarenka upset 16-seed Elise Mertens.[64] This left Azarenka as the only unseeded player in the semifinals, where she met Serena Williams in the first semifinal in Grand Slam history to be contested by two mothers.[65] Azarenka's three-set win put her through to her fifth Grand Slam final.[66] She would be met in the final by Osaka, who defeated Brady in three sets to qualify for her third Grand Slam final.[67] In the final, Azarenka got out to an early lead after taking the first set in dominant fashion. Soon after, Osaka improved her play and her "self-described bad attitude", and won four straight games in the second set to level the match.[68] Osaka was victorious in the final set as well, securing her second US Open title and her third Grand Slam singles title.[69]
In each of her seven matches, Osaka entered the stadium wearing a blackface mask with the name of a different African-American who died as a result of unjust violence from police or other citizens in the United States, in support of theBlack Lives Matter movement and the ongoingGeorge Floyd protests.[70] The seven masks bore the names ofBreonna Taylor,Elijah McClain,Ahmaud Arbery,Trayvon Martin,George Floyd,Philando Castile, andTamir Rice.[70]
Mate Pavić /Bruno Soares def.Wesley Koolhof /Nikola Mektić, 7–5, 6–3Coming into the men's doubles tournament, the all-Colombian team ofJuan Sebastián Cabal andRobert Farah held the top seed.[71] The first round saw the surprising exit of four of the eight seeded pairs, including the 2-seed pair ofŁukasz Kubot andMarcelo Melo[72] and the 4-seed pair ofFilip Polášek andIvan Dodig.[73] Two more seeded pairs dropped out in the second round, as top-seeded Cabal and Farah faltered,[74] as did the 6-seed German pair ofKevin Krawietz andAndreas Mies.[75]
The remaining two seeded pairs met each other in the semifinals, as 8-seedWesley Koolhof andNikola Mektić defeated 3-seedRajeev Ram andJoe Salisbury.[76] The other semifinal sawJean-Julien Rojer andHoria Tecău fall toMate Pavić andBruno Soares; both semifinal matches were decided in two sets.[77] In the final, Pavić and Soares jumped out to a lead as they took the first set 7–5. Koolhoff and Mektić could not respond, and the second set ended in favor of Pavić and Soares, giving them their second and third Grand Slam doubles titles, respectively.[78]
Laura Siegemund /Vera Zvonareva def.
Nicole Melichar /
Xu Yifan, 6–4, 6–4Entering the women's doubles tournament, the top seed was awarded toTímea Babos of Hungary andKristina Mladenovic of France. While the first round saw the exit of only one of the eight seeded pairs in the tournament (the fifth-seeded pair ofBethanie Mattek-Sands andZhang Shuai were defeated byAsia Muhammad andTaylor Townsend),[79] the second round saw four such occurrences. The bottom three seeded pairs – 6-seedShuko Aoyama andEna Shibahara, 7-seedVictoria Azarenka andSofia Kenin, and 8-seedAnna-Lena Friedsam andKateřina Siniaková – were all defeated, and the top-seeded pair of Babos and Mladenovic were disqualified as a result ofBenoît Paire's positiveCOVID-19 test, which required Mladenovic, who had reportedly had close contact with Paire, toquarantine and therefore drop out of the tournament. Their match was awarded on awalkover toGabriela Dabrowski andAlison Riske, and Babos would later refer to the decision as an "injustice", citing the numerous negative COVID-19 tests taken by both of the pair and the clearing of a male athlete in a similar situation the day before.[80]
The tournament progressed to the quarterfinals, where the 2-seed pair ofElise Mertens andAryna Sabalenka and the 4-seed pair ofKvěta Peschke andDemi Schuurs were both defeated.[81][82] In the semifinals, Asia Muhammad and Taylor Townsend were defeated by the 3-seed pair ofNicole Melichar andXu Yifan.[83] The other semifinal sawAnna Blinkova andVeronika Kudermetova fall toLaura Siegemund andVera Zvonareva; both semifinals were decided in three sets.[84] This set up a final between the pair of Melichar and Xu and the pair of Siegemund and Zvonareva; the latter team took the final in two sets to win the title.[81][85] This marked the first Grand Slam women's doubles title for Siegemund and the third for Zvonareva.
Shingo Kunieda def.Alfie Hewett, 6–3, 3–6, 7–6(7–3)The wheelchair men's singles tournament had two seeded players, 1-seedShingo Kunieda and 2-seedGustavo Fernández, and six other unseeded players. In the tournament's opening round, the quarterfinals, Kunieda defeatedNicolas Peifer,[86] and Fernández defeatedStéphane Houdet,[87] both in two sets. The quarterfinals also saw Casey Ratzlaff fall in three sets toJoachim Gérard,[88] andAlfie Hewett defeatGordon Reid in two.[89]
In the semifinals, Kunieda faced Gérard, and bounced back from a first set loss to win in three,[90] while Hewett upset Fernández in three after splitting the first two sets.[91] This set up a final between top-seeded Shingo Kunieda and unseeded Alfie Hewett; the former in his 29th Grand Slam singles final and the latter in his fifth. The match came down to the wire, with each player taking one of the first two sets by a score of 6–3. The third set reached 6–6 and went to a tiebreak, where Kunieda was victorious to win his 24th Grand Slam singles title.[92]
Diede de Groot def.Yui Kamiji, 6–3, 6–3The wheelchair women's singles tournament, like the men's competition, was contested by eight players. Two were seeded, 1-seedDiede de Groot and 2-seedYui Kamiji, while the six others were unseeded. The tournament opened with de Groot defeatingJordanne Whiley and Kamiji defeatingMomoko Ohtani, both in straight sets.[86] The other two quarterfinals sawMarjolein Buis eliminate Dana Mathewson in two sets and Angélica Bernal defeat wild card entryLucy Shuker in three.[93][94] In the semifinals, both top seeds advanced, with de Groot defeating Buis in three sets and Kamiji beating Bernal in two.[95][96] This set up a final between the top two seeds, de Groot and Kamiji. The top seeded player, de Groot, did not give Kamiji much of an opportunity for the upset, taking both sets 6–3 and winning her third US Open title.[97][98]
Sam Schröder def.Dylan Alcott, 7–6(7–5), 0–6, 6–4The wheelchair quad singles competition was not played as a traditional tournament bracket; rather, it was played in around robin-style tournament with the top two finishers moving on to the championship match. Four players took part in the tournament: 1-seedDylan Alcott, 2-seedAndy Lapthorne, unseededDavid Wagner, and wild card entrySam Schröder. In round robin play, Alcott topped the standings by winning all three of his matches, beating Lapthorne and Schröder in two sets and Wagner in three. Schröder's rather dominant two-set upset of Lapthorne gave him second place and the other berth in the final; Lapthorne finished the round robin with one win and Wagner finished with none.[99]
The final was contested by top-seeded Alcott and Schröder. The first set was evenly played by both competitors, but was won by Schröder in a tiebreak. Alcott recovered with a second-setbagel to force the game into a third set, which was won by Schröder in upset fashion, 6–4, for his first US Open title.[100] Schröder's win was especially unlikely considering that Alcott was seeking his eleventh Grand Slam title while Schröder was appearing in a Grand Slam event for the first time.[101]
Alfie Hewett /Gordon Reid def.
Stéphane Houdet /Nicolas Peifer, 6–4, 6–1The wheelchair men's doubles tournament was contested by the same eight players who contested thesingles event. The top seed was given to the pair ofAlfie Hewett andGordon Reid, with the second seed given toStéphane Houdet andNicolas Peifer. Hewett and Reid facedGustavo Fernández andShingo Kunieda in the tournament's opening semifinal round, defeating them in two sets, while Houdet and Peifer took down Casey Ratzlaff andJoachim Gérard, also in two.[102][103] This set up a final between the two top seeds, which was won in two sets by the top-ranked duo of Hewett and Reid.[104]
Yui Kamiji /Jordanne Whiley def.Marjolein Buis /Diede de Groot, 6–3, 6–3As with the men's tournament, the wheelchair women's doubles event was contested by the same group of eight players that played in thesingles event. The semifinal round proved not to be a challenge for either of the two seeded pairs, as the 1-seed duo ofMarjolein Buis andDiede de Groot defeated Angélica Bernal and Dana Mathewson[105] and the 2-seed pair ofYui Kamiji andJordanne Whiley defeatedMomoko Ohtani andLucy Shuker, both in straight sets. In the final, Kamiji and Whiley were able to outlast Buis and de Groot, winning both sets by a score of 6–3, and earning their eleventh Grand Slam title together.[106]
Dylan Alcott /Andy Lapthorne def.Sam Schröder /David Wagner, 3–6, 6–4, [10–8]The wheelchair quad doubles event was the smallest at the tournament, with only four players (the same four that contested thesingles event) competing. As a result, there was only one match played to determine the champion. In the first set, underdogsSam Schröder andDavid Wagner jumped out to an early lead by winning the first set 6–3, butDylan Alcott andAndy Lapthorne battled back to force a third with a 6–4 second-set victory. The third set was played as a match tiebreak, which was won 10–8 by Alcott and Lapthorne to secure them the wheelchair quad doubles title.[107]
As a Grand Slam tournament, the points for the US Open are the highest of all ATP and WTA tournaments.[108] These points determine the world ATP and WTA rankings for men's and women's competition, respectively. Due to the smaller draws and the pandemic, all men's and women's doubles players that made it past the first round received half the points of their singles counterparts, a change from previous years where singles and doubles players received the same number of points in all but the first two rounds. In both singles and doubles, women received slightly higher point totals compared to their male counterparts at each round of the tournament, except for the first and last.[108][109] Points and rankings for the wheelchair events fall under the jurisdiction of theITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour, which also places Grand Slams as the highest classification.[110]
The ATP and WTA rankings were both altered in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[111] Both rankings were frozen on March 16, 2020, upon the suspension of both tours, and as a result the traditional 52-week ranking system was extended to cover the period from March 2019 to December 2020, with a player's best 18 results in that time period factoring into their point totals. Points earned from the US Open and other 2020 Tour-level tournaments will be dropped from their point totals after 52 weeks or until that respective tournament is played in 2021. Like other tournaments, each player could only count their best result from either the 2019 or 2020 US Open towards their ranking.[112][113]
Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event:
| Event | Winner | Finalist | Semifinals | Quarterfinals | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Round of 128 |
| Men's singles | 2000 | 1200 | 720 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 45 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's doubles | 1000 | 600 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 0 | — | — |
| Women's singles | 2000 | 1300 | 780 | 430 | 240 | 130 | 70 | 10 |
| Women's doubles | 1000 | 650 | 390 | 215 | 120 | 10 | — | — |
| Event | Winner | Finalist | Semifinals | Quarterfinals |
| Singles | 800 | 500 | 375 | 100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quad singles | 800 | 500 | 375 / 100 | — |
| Doubles | 800 | 500 | 100 | — |
| Quad doubles | 800 | 100 | — | — |
Several days before the tournament began, the prize money pool was announced to be US$53.4 million, a reduction of 6.7% compared tolast year's tournament.[114] The prize money for men's and women's singles winners took a large reduction, down 22% to $3 million this year.[114][115] Prize money at each tier but one of the singles competition saw a reduction in 2020: the winnings for players exiting in the first round rose by 5% but saw no change in second- or third-round exits and saw a decrease in each level past that.[116] Prize money for the men's and women's doubles competitions took big hits as well, as both winning pairs took home 46% less than last year.[116] The total prize pool for the wheelchair competitions was $350,000.[114][117] In addition to winnings for players, a portion of the prize pool also was given to a relief program funded by the four Grand Slam tournaments, as well as the ITP, ATP Tour, and WTA Tour. A portion of the pool was also designated as being to "make up for" the cancellation of qualification tournaments and the reduced size of the competition.[116]
| Event | Winner | Finalist | Semifinals | Quarterfinals | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Round of 128 |
| Singles | $3,000,000 | $1,500,000 | $800,000 | $425,000 | $250,000 | $163,000 | $100,000 | $61,000 |
| Doubles (per team) | $400,000 | $240,000 | $130,000 | $91,000 | $50,000 | $30,000 | — | — |
In the United States,ESPN held exclusive rights to the tournament for the sixth year in a row as part of an 11-year, $825 million contract.[118] Tournament matches were viewable on ESPN as well as onESPN2 and online streaming servicesESPN3 andESPN+.[119] ESPN also held rights to theUS Open Series, with theTennis Channel airing overnight replays of the world feed.[120] Prior to the broadcast of the women's singles final,Mariah Carey premiered the video for her song "Save The Day",[121] which was filmed in front ofArthur Ashe Stadium on the grounds of theBillie Jean King National Tennis Center and which features clips of past US Open championsVenus andSerena Williams,Sloane Stephens, andNaomi Osaka.[121] In the United Kingdom and theRepublic of Ireland,Amazon Prime Video held exclusive rights to the tournament.[122]
Viewership as a whole saw a decline from previous years, drawing only 700,000 viewers due to player opt-outs and competition from other broadcasts on television.[123][124] Overall ratings suffered a 45% decline; viewership of the men's final dropped 48% while the women's final dropped 43%.[123] The men's final saw the lowest viewership since the tournament was picked up by ESPN, as the match competed withTom Brady's debut appearance for theTampa Bay Buccaneers in theNational Football League (NFL),[123] though the women's final charted as the third-highest in the ESPN era, behind the previous two years.[123]
| Preceded by | Grand Slams | Succeeded by |
