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US Open History
History - Important Facts - Prizes - Schedule - Winners
The US Open has not always been the two-week extravaganza it is today. The change from an amateur event known as the U.S. National Championships to the US Open, considered the richest professional tennis event in the world has gone to many visible stages.
The five major championships that constitute the US Open - men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles - grew from a single men's tournament held as an entertainment diversion for high society to a worldwide known event in the 20th century.
Before the US Open was born, the first U.S. National Singles Championship for men was held at the Newport Casino, Newport, R.I. in 1881. Only clubs that were members of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association were permitted to enter. The ancestor of the US Open consisted in Men's doubles played in conjunction with men's singles at the Newport Casino.
In 1887, six years after the men's nationals were instituted as an annual event, the first official U.S. Women's National Singles Championship was held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, joined by women's doubles in 1889. Of the five major events that constitute the US Open, women's singles has been the least traveled. U.S. women's singles has been contested in just three places: Philadelphia Cricket Club, West Side Tennis Club and the USTA National Tennis Center.
Beginning in 1900, the U.S. National Men's Doubles Championship was layered, with tournaments held in the East and West. In 1919, the format of qualifying sectional winners and a challenge round was used for the final time. Thereafter, the format for men's doubles hardly changed, except for the switch to best-of-three sets from best-of-five in 1993.
The advent of the Open Era in 1968 consolidated all five major U.S. tennis championships into the US Open at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, N.Y. A total of $100,000 was offered to the field of 96 men and 63 women who entered men's and women's singles and doubles that year. Today, the US Open offers more than $17.7 Million to more than 600 men and women, including qualifying.
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