The 2025 US Open marks the tip of Stacey Allaster’s administration.
Allaster will step down from her positions as USTA Chief Government of Skilled Tennis and US Open Event Director after the 2025 Flushing Meadows main, the USTA introduced right now.
The 61-year-old Allaster, the previous CEO of the WTA Tour, was a trailblazer serving as the primary feminine US Open Event Director. Allaster will retain a “particular advisory position” with the USTA and pursue further pursuits. Allaster mentioned the 2025 US Open would be the finish of her full-time profession in professional tennis.
“I’m excited to shut out my profession in skilled tennis with the USTA,” Stacey Allaster mentioned in a press release. “It has been an honor to steer one of many world’s most prestigious sport and leisure occasions: a pinnacle level in a profession that allowed me the privilege to collaborate with extraordinary athletes, leaders, employees, volunteers and followers.
“I’m pleased with the expansion and innovation that propelled the US Open to new report degree attendance and much more so to have change into the primary feminine event director of the US Open – an honor that may pave the best way for extra feminine leaders within the sport that I like. For now, I’m targeted and impressed to stage probably the most profitable USO in 2025.”
In her lengthy tenure with the WTA, Allaster grew the tour globally together with making in roads in China and Asia Pacific, rising the WTA Finals right into a 10-day occasion, and securing a 10-year media settlement, the most important in girls’s sports activities historical past.
Former Canadian Open Event Director Allaster ended her six-year tenutre as WTA CEO position again in October or 2015 to spend extra time together with her household.
Corridor of Famer Billie Jean King known as Allaster a “visionary chief for tennis. She introduced optimistic basic change whereas serving as an exemplary position mannequin, and she or he exectued the [WTA’s] largest and finest monetary methods throughout a really troublesome economic system.”
In March of 2016, Allaster was formally named USTA Chief Government Skilled Tennis. In 2020, Allaster made historical past because the US Open’s first feminine Event Director.
“Throughout her tenure with the USTA, [Allaster] has overseen unbelievable development—with the 2024 US Open eclipsing a million followers on website for the primary time—and efficiently led the professional group via challenges like in 2020 when the US Open grew to become the primary worldwide sporting occasion to happen within the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the USTA mentioned in a press release. “Allaster has additionally been an vital voice and advocate for equality in skilled sports activities all through her profession. She was named by Forbes as probably the most highly effective girls in sport and a 50 over 50 Visionary, an SBJ Recreation Changer, and the WISE Girl of the 12 months.
“She obtained the Billie Jean King Management award on the annual Girls’s Sports activities Basis Salute to Girls in Sports activities and was awarded the Order of Canada within the companion class for her work in gender equality—one of many highest civilian honors in her native nation.”
Although the USTA historically limits executives’ engagement with the media, Allaster earned a fame as a straight shooter.
“Stacey and I’ve labored collectively to rigorously plan a transition and I need to thank Stacey for her unbelievable partnership over time and for the numerous methods she has helped form American and international tennis,” Lew Sherr, USTA Chief Government Officer and Government Director mentioned. “Beneath her management, we’ve achieved a lot collectively, together with reaching the outstanding milestone of 1 million followers on the US Open—a imaginative and prescient she helped flip right into a actuality.
“Stacey’s means to steer with integrity and encourage and mentor these round her has made her not only a trusted chief, however somebody who brings out the perfect in others. She’s constructed an incredible group and been a tireless advocate for gender equality, leaving a legacy that may proceed to encourage future generations in our sport.”
