Don’t be fooled by the comparatively lopsided, seemingly foregone conclusion that was the lads’s singles last on Sunday afternoon. The 2024 U.S. Open was epic.
It produced worthy champions in top-ranked Jannik Sinner on the lads’s aspect and now three-time Grand Slam winner Aryna Sabalenka within the ladies’s competitors. The lads’s occasion delivered the longest match in U.S. Open historical past, as Dan Evans got here again from 0-4, 15-40 down within the fifth set to win a first-round marathon over Karen Khachanov in 5 hours and 35 minutes. There have been loads of different unbelievable matches, as nicely: Frances Tiafoe vs. Ben Shelton, Lorenzo Musetti vs. Miomir Kecmanovic, Jessica Pegula vs. Karolina Muchova within the semis, and Sabalenka vs. Pegula within the last, amongst others.
The host nation totally loved the fortnight, too. Taylor Fritz grew to become the primary American man to succeed in the singles last at Flushing Meadows since 2006 and the primary to succeed in any Grand Slam singles last since 2009 (Fritz misplaced to Sinner 6-3, 6-4, 7-5). Tiafoe made a return journey to the semifinals, whereas Tommy Paul and Brandon Nakashima superior to the fourth spherical. Emma Navarro upset defending champion Coco Gauf in an all-American thriller on the 23-year-old’s strategy to her first slam semi. In blended doubles, Taylor Townsend and the retiring Donald Younger made an inconceivable run to the title match.
For a full 14 days there was leisure throughout the hallowed grounds of the Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Heart. And an entire host of patrons have been there to witness all of it.
Opening Day of the 2024 U.S. Open drew the most important single-day crowd in occasion historical past at 74,641. The day-session crowd of 42,886 was the second-highest day-session attendance of all time, whereas the night-session crowd of 31,775 set a brand new document. For the event as an entire, it surpassed a million attendees for the primary time ever. The 1,048,669 whole marked an eight-percent enhance from 2023.
These 1000’s–er, thousands and thousands–of followers have been blessed with superb climate mainly from begin to end. The primary 12 days of the event have been rain free and–by the standard requirements of late August and early September in New York–nice in temperature. It didn’t begin raining till the ultimate weekend, and by then the one matches being performed have been on courts with a roof.
Other than Pegula and Fritz every developing only one match brief, the USTA certainly couldn’t be happier with the occasion it placed on over the previous fortnight. The 2024 U.S. Open was a memorable one, capping off the 2024 Grand Slam season in model.Ricky contributes to 10sballs.com and in addition maintains his personal tennis web site, The Grandstand. You possibly can comply with him on Twitter at @Dimonator.
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