Us Open Tennis Championship Session 16 Tickets

The United States Open Tennis Championships or in short the US Open has been hosting the world’s greatest tennis players since 1987. The US Open comes fourth in the list of Grand Slam tournaments after Wimbledon, French Open and the Australian Open. This means that the US Open is one of the four major tennis tournaments in terms of prize money, importance in world rankings, media attention and audience. The most recent winner of the US Open is Rafael Nadal who secured the 2010 championship. The US Open hosts games for five types of competitions, namely, Men's Singles, Men's Doubles, Women's Singles, Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles.

The venue for the tournament have been the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens in New York City since the 1970's. The playing surface in this venue is hard acrylic courts. The tournament takes two weeks to complete and is held in August and September. The US Open gives away about 19 million dollars in prize money overall and over 600 male and female participants compete for the final prize. The singles prize is about 1.5 million for each winner.

The tournament started back in 1881 and used to be for men only. Of course, over the years, especially after the availability of modern media, the importance of the competition grew and now the US Open has a worldwide audience, which counts in millions. The tournament has seen many changes in format and rules ever since. For example, between 1884 and 1911, the defending champion could qualify for the next year’s championship automatically without playing the whole tournament again. The tournament did not feature all five types of matches from the start. It started with men's finals only. Six years after the first men's single, the women's single was introduced. Later, Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles were introduced and most recently, in 1900, the Men's Doubles also started.

In 1968, the open era began. With the start of the open era, all five types of tennis competitions were merged to one. The open era meant that professional players could play alongside amateurs and hence could make a better career out of tennis. In the 70's, the US Open started using a tie breaker at the end of a set and still continues with this rule. The other Grand Slam tournaments use service games to decide games. The surface on which the US Open was played used to be grass but now it is a hard acrylic material called DecoTurf. This is a very fast surface and it is said to favor serve-and-volley players.

Since 1997, The Arthur Ashe Stadium has been the main court on which all finals have been played. The stadium can seat over twenty-two thousand people and has lighting facility so matches can be held at night too. The second largest court is the Louis Armstrong Stadium and is the renovated version of the Singer Bowl. It has seated over fifteen thousand previously but after the construction of the Arthur Ashe Stadium, its capacity was reduced to seat a total of 5000 people. The side courts can seat about a thousand people each. All the courts are lighted and this has helped the tournament gain a much larger audience as people can watch the games on TV Live at prime time. CBS has been the main broadcaster for a long time now. As the television viewership is much greater than the live audience and is a major source of revenue for the competition, to improve visuals the courts are now blue. The contrast makes it easier to view the ball on TV. The outer courts are still green though.

 US Open has been providing the fans with great tennis games for a long time. Some of the finals have been so amazing that people who saw them live describe it as one of the most thrilling experiences of their life.  It has been host to some of the world’s greatest talent and has hosted some of the best encounters ever to be seen by mankind. Also, the US Open has bred some amazing talent. So, clinch this opportunity and watch some of the best tennis in the world. Get yourself and your friends US Open Tennis Championship Session 16 Tickets online today and make sure you don't miss out on the action.