US Open 2025: Tennis mega event starts for the first time for 15 days!

US Open 2025: Tennis mega event starts for the first time for 15 days!

The US Open, one of the largest tennis events, presented a radical innovation in 2025: The individual competition is extended to remarkable 15 days. It starts on the first Sunday, this time on August 24th. Organizers see this change as an upgrading of the tournament, since the mixed competition also takes place prominently on August 19 and 20. According to Laola1 in this category in the future, the chance to be distinguished with one million dollar, which has a stream compared to the previous 200,000 Represents dollars. At the same time, the number of participating mixed teams is reduced from 32 to 16, which means an exciting but less diverse selection for tennis fans.

The basic conversion comes in one year in which the US Open starts with the motto "Celebrating the Power of Tennis". This reform follows the model of the tournament in 2024, which was the 144th edition of the Grand Slam, but remained limited to 14 days. In 2024, the titles of Novak Djokovic and Coco Gauff, which, however, left at an early stage, such as Wikipedia The tournament will continue to be held in the Usta Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York and consists of 17 hard places, including the main stages Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong.

new rules for mixed double

As part of the revised structure of the mixed competition, new rules of the game apply: the matches are held in a "Best of Three" format, whereby the sentences are shortened to four games and a tie-break is decided at 4: 4. It is only in the final on six games. Jessica Pegula, the current world ranking fifth from the USA, was positive about the reform: "As a player who also likes to play double, I think it's great to play mixed in the first week at the US Open 2025." The restructuring aims to offer an exciting and dynamic tournament and thus decentralizes attention to the various disciplines of tennis.