The US Open will turn out to be a 15-day event in 2025, starting on a weekend for the primary time within the Open period.
This 12 months’s fundamental draw at Flushing Meadows will begin on Sunday, 24 August and finish on Sunday, 7 September.
It turns into the newest Grand Slam to announce a Sunday begin. The Australian Open expanded to a 15-day event in 2024, after the French Open took that call in 2006.
That leaves Wimbledon as the one remaining Slam occasion to retain the standard Monday begin.
In making the change, the US Open mentioned the transfer would enable “extra fan entry than ever to the primary draw following three consecutive years of record-breaking attendance”.
The event estimates the enlargement will enable entry for a further 70,000 spectators.
Males’s and girls’s singles first-round matches might be performed throughout the opening three days in New York, from Sunday to Tuesday.
The Australian Open took the choice to turn out to be a 15-day occasion in an try to cut back the variety of late-night finishes at Melbourne Park.