Current affairs topic :All about the US Open Tennis Championships: from the beginning till now
A brief history of US Open tennis Championship
The US Open Tennis Championship is a tough court tennis tournament.
Since 1987.The US Open has, chronologically, the fourth and final Grand Slam of the year.
The other three, in chronological order, are the Australian Open, the French Open and the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
The US Open begins on the last Monday in August and lasts for two weeks, with the middle weekend coinciding with the US Labor Day holiday.
The tournament is one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, originally known as the United States National Championship, where men’s singles and men’s doubles were played in August 1881.
The Women’s US Tennis Championships began in 1987.
And it was first played in August of 1987.
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Various tournaments for the US Open tennis
*There are five main in the competition….
• men’s and women’s singles,
• men’s and women’s doubles,
• mixed doubles.
*The competition also includes events for…….
• Senior
• junior
• wheelchair players.
Working organization to conduct US Open tennis
Since 1978, the tournament has been held on hard acrylic courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, New York.
The US Open is owned and organized by the United States Tennis Association (USTA), a non-profit organization, and Patrick Galbraith is President of the US Openn.
Revenues from ticket sales, sponsorships and TV contracts are used to developOpenis in the United States.
US OPEN TENNIS CHAMPION 2019 Winners
• Men’s singles - Rafael Nadal
• Women’s singles final-Bianca Andreescu
• Men’s doubles final -Juan Sebastián Cabal
• Robert Farah
• Women’s doubles final-Elise Mertens
• Aryna Sabalenka
• Mixed doubles final - Bethanie Mattek-Sands
• Jamie Murray
US open tennis championship 2021
Men’s - Daniil MedvedevW
omen’s Singles- Emma RaducanuM
en’s Doubles -Ram/Salisbury
Women’s Doubles- Stosur/Zhang
Men’s doubles - Ram/Salisbury
Mixed Doubles - Krawczyk/Salisbury
US open tennis championship 2022
• Schedule from Mon, 29 Aug 2022 – Sun, 11 Sept 2022
• Where to play: Meadows, NY, US
• where will it be played: The grounds of the US Open have 22 outdoor courts (plus 12 practise courts just outside the East Gate) consisting of four “show courts” (Arthur Ashe Stadium, Louis Armstrong Stadium, the Grandstand, and Court 17), 13 field courts, and 5 practice courts.
All Records made during the US Open Championship
CHAMPIONS
Most Victories
4, Willie Anderson (1901, 1903, 1904, 1905)
4, a-Bob Jones (1923, 1926, 1929, 1930)
4, Ben Hogan (1948, 1950, 1951, 1953)
4, Jack Nicklaus (1962, 1967, 1972, 1980)
3, Hale Irwin (1974, 1979, 1990)
3, Tiger Woods (2000, 2002, 2008)
Consecutive Victories
3, Willie Anderson (1903, 1904, 1905)
2, John J.
McDermott (1911, 1912)
2, a-Bob Jones (1929, 1930)
2, Ralph Guldahl (1937, 1938)
2, Ben Hogan (1950, 1951)
2, Curtis Strange (1988, 1989)
2, Brooks Koepka (2017, 2018)
Age wise
Oldest Champion (years/months/days)
45/0/15, Hale Irwin, 1990
43/9/11, Raymond Floyd, 1986
43/4/16, Ted Ray, 1920
Youngest Champion
19/10/14, John J.
McDermott,
Youngest Competitor
14/6/0, Andy Zhang, 2012
15/5/7, Tadd Fujikawa, 2006
15/9/21, Cole Hammer, 2015
Brother Champions
Willie Smith (1899) and Alex Smith (1906, 1910)
Sister champions
Serena Williams and Venus Williams
Most women’s singles titles
6 titles each – Chris Evert – 1975–78, 1980, 1982 and
Serena Williams – 1999, 2002, 2008, 2012–13
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Q1-Who has won more Grand Slam titles in tennis?
Answer-Rafael Nadal.
Q2-what is the US Open Tennis known for?
Answer-The tournament is of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, originally known as the U.S. National Championship, for which men's singles and men's doubles were first played in August 1881.
Q3- What is it called when you miss a serve in tennis?
Answer -ADVERTISEMENT If your first serve doesn't go into the correct box, it's called a "fault." If you miss your second serve, however, it's called a "double fault" and your opponent wins that point.
Q4-What woman has won the most U.S. Open titles?
Answer- Margaret Court has 24 singles majors, an all-time record. In 1970, Court became the first woman during the Open Era to win the singles Grand Slam. Serena Williams is the winner of 23 Major singles titles Open Era record.
Q5-Who has won the US Open 5 times?
Answer-Rozer Federer.
