 2018 US Open Spotlight: Richard Gasquet
The Libema Open saw an all-French final, where world No. 25 Richard Gasquet took his 15th tour-level title, defeating countryman Jeremy Chardy in straight sets, 6-3, 7-6, on Sunday.
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US Open Art Courts x Chase: The ACE Project
From Arthur Ashe to the Williams sisters, public courts have nurtured and built US Open champions. The USTA, in partnership with Chase and our National Junior Tennis and Learning (NJTL) network, will build upon its shared mission to strengthen communities through tennis and art by restoring five public-court facilities in five markets.
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50 for 50: Stefan Edberg, 1991 and 1992 men's singles champion
For the first eight years of his career, Flushing Meadows bedeviled Stefan Edberg. It seemed that the noise, the night matches, the Big Apple hustle and bustle had gotten the better of the soft-spoken, stylish Swede. That was until 1991, when Edberg broke through to the US Open champions' circle in convincing fashion.
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2018 US Open Spotlight: Alison Riske
While Rafael Nadal was busy winning his 11th French Open title, American Alison Riske lifted a trophy of her own at the ITF event in Surbiton, Great Britain, on Sunday. The grass-court title was Riske's first at the ITF or WTA level since 2016.
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50 Moments That Mattered: Roof over Ashe makes its debut
As unsettled weather kept disrupting the tournament schedule and dampening the spirits of the spectators, a plan was put in place to erect a roof over Ashe Stadium to modernize the facility and protect both the fans and the players. That roof was unveiled in 2016, much to the delight of longtime US Open followers.
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2018 US Open Spotlight: Marco Cecchinato
Italian Marco Cecchinato is having the "best moment" of his life at the 2018 French Open after ousting No. 8 seed David Goffin on Sunday, 7-5, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3. Here's more on the first Italian man to make it to the French Open quarterfinals since Fabio Fognini in 2011.
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50 for 50: Patrick Rafter, 1997 & 1998 men's singles champion
Patrick Rafter defeated Greg Rusedski in the 1987 men's final to become the first Australian man to win the US Open since John Newcombe in 1973. He returned to defend his title the following year, this time defeating fellow Aussie Mark Philippoussis and, in doing so, won over the New York crowd once and for all.
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Open Interview: Frances Tiafoe
Still just 20 years old, Frances Tiafoe is regularly playing the people he grew up idolizing and watching on TV. He hopes to be a role model for youngsters looking to follow in his footsteps.
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50 Moments That Mattered: The Evert-Navratilova rivalry begins
As the 1975 US Open unfolded, Chris Evert was the overwhelming favorite to win the tournament, and the top seed was feared by just about all of the players in the field because defeating her on clay was such a tall task. One of the few players who could test Evert was a left-handed dynamo named Martina Navratilova.
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2018 US Open Spotlight: Marco Trungelliti
Marco Trungelliti, the current world No. 190, has become the unlikeliest of success stories at the French Open after a last-minute, 10-hour drive from his Barcelona home to Paris led to a 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 first-round victory over Bernard Tomic.
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50 for 50: Andy Murray, 2012 men's singles champion
It was commonly referred to as the Big Four, but Andy Murray was missing one critical piece of hardware that his peers - Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic - had collected in abundance: a Grand Slam singles trophy. That all changed when the 2012 US Open rolled around.
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Getting to Know: Los Angeles artist Charlie Edmiston
Artist Charlie Edmiston will be transforming the public courts of the Pete Brown Junior Tennis Program, a USTA NJTL, into an immersive art experience. USOpen.org caught up with him to discuss his art, inspiration and how tennis has influenced his creation.
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50 for 50: Maria Sharapova, 2006 women's singles champion
Maria Sharapova embraced the US Open trophy and then thrust it proudly into the air. The trophy responded by coming undone, the lid toppling off and nearly falling to the concrete floor of Arthur Ashe Stadium. It was Sharapova's only misstep at the 2006 US Open.
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Built for Glory: The US Open Wheelchair Competition
In 2005, the US Open became the second Grand Slam to welcome wheelchair tennis to its program, with the debut of the US Open Wheelchair Competition. Since, the competition has become a cornerstone to the wheelchair tennis community.
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50 for 50: Boris Becker, 1989 men's singles champion
Played out in 90-degree heat, starting in sunshine and then finishing under the stadium lights, the 1989 men's final was a bruising battle of iron-willed competitors, as Boris Becker defeated Ivan Lendl to become the first German man to win the US Open.
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50 for 50: Ken Rosewall, 1970 men's singles champion
In an age of giants of the game - Rod Laver, Lew Hoad, Pancho Gonzales, John Newcombe, Arthur Ashe - Ken Rosewall stood as tall as any of them during a Hall of Fame career that ran an astonishing three decades through the amateur, professional and Open eras.
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2018 US Open Spotlight: Elise Mertens
Belgium's Elise Mertens has been a dominant force on the WTA Tour this year, and the 22-year-old Belgian continued her red-hot play last week by winning the singles title at the Grand Prix de SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem in Rabat, Morocco.
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50 Moments That Mattered: Serena wins record sixth title
Serena Williams climbed the ladder of history again, securing a sixth title at the US Open in 2014 to tie Chris Evert for the Open Era record and capturing her 18th major to equal both Evert and Martina Navratilova on the all-time list of female Grand Slam tournament singles victors.
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50 for 50: Stan Wawrinka, 2016 men's singles champion
Stan Wawrinka cemented his standing as one of the world's best on the rough-and-tumble hard courts so well-suited to his gritty game, putting a capstone on a tremendous late-in-tennis-life surge by winning the 2016 US Open title.
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2018 US Open Spotlight: Petra Kvitova
The Czech Republic's Fed Cup World Group semifinal victory against Germany started and ended with Petra Kvitova this weekend, as she notched a pair of WTA Top 15 victories to help her team advance to November's final against Team USA.
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50 for 50: Guillermo Vilas, 1977 men's singles champion
On Sunday, Sept. 11, 1977, Guillermo Vilas helped make tennis history and tennis lore, as the No. 4 seed was matched up against defending champion and top-seeded Jimmy Connors in a duel of two of the finest champions of clay-court tennis.
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The Open era turns 50
This summer, thanks to the advent of the Open era in 1968, the US Open will celebrate its 50th anniversary.
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Miami Art Courts Inspire Community
On April 14th, the USTA in partnership with Chase, revealed the artistically transformed courts of First Serve Miami, designed and painted by the artistic duo Kiik Create.
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50 Moments That Mattered: Hawk-Eye instant replay makes its debut
The altercations between players and linesmen had been occurring forever. These disputes had been woven into the fabric of the game, and the controversy surrounding the line calls was both entertaining for the fans and aggravating for the competitors and those making the calls. That all changed in 2006, when the Hawk-Eye Instant Replay System was put into operation.
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2018 US Open Spotlight: Steve Johnson
American Steve Johnson successfully defended his title at the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship in Houston Sunday, defeating fellow American Tennys Sandgren, 7-6, 2-6, 6-4, in the final.
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US Open Anthem Auditions return for 12th year in 2018
The US Open Anthem Auditions are back for a 12th year in 2018, allowing children 14 years or younger to submit an online audition for the chance to sing "America the Beautiful" live in Arthur Ashe Stadium during this year's US Open.
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Getting to Know: Miami Art Court artists KiiK Create
KiiK Create, the artistic duo of Maneola del Pilar Madera Nadal and David Gray Edgerton, recently transformed the public courts at First Serve Miami, a USTA NJTL, into an immersive art experience. USOpen.org caught up with the pair to discuss their art, inspiration and how tennis has influenced their creation.
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50 Moments That Mattered: Evert bids farewell
Chris Evert had celebrated her arrival as a great player when she was a 16-year-old at the US Open in 1971. Eighteen years and a record six titles later, she announced her last tournament would be in New York in 1989.
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Learn about the National Junior Tennis & Learning network
The National Junior Tennis and Learning (NJTL) network features more than 350 nonprofit youth development organizations that offer free or low-cost tennis and education programming to more than 200,000 under-resourced youth each year.
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2018 US Open Spotlight: Kiki Bertens
Kiki Bertens is off to a strong clay-court season after taking the trophy at the 2018 Volvo Car Open in Charleston, S.C., Sunday. Berten's victory comes after toppling Germany's Julia Goerges, 6-2, 6-1, in just shy of an hour.
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50 Moments That Mattered: Del Potro stuns tennis world
Argentina's towering and charismatic Juan Martin del Potro introduced himself to the US Open in 2008 with a scintillating run to the quarterfinals, bowing out against Andy Murray in a hotly contested, late-afternoon encounter. Back he came to New York in 2009, and now he was even more of a threat to claim the title.
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Public courts: A training ground for the game's greats
They are, in effect, communities within communities. They're competitive communities, raw, merit-based battlegrounds, places where you'd better be ready to take on anyone, from that older man with the diabolical drop shot to another kid who's also craving more court time. These are America's public courts, the training ground for the vast majority of great American tennis players for well over 100 years.
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50 for 50: Andy Roddick, 2003 men's singles champion
The 2003 US Open began with the official retirement of Pete Sampras, a five-time US Open champion and arguably the greatest American in men's tennis history. Enter Andy Roddick. The successor to Sampras as the next great American man flexed his muscles - and his serve and forehand - over the ensuing two weeks, keeping the US Open men's trophy on U.S. soil.
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US Open Art Courts x Chase: First Serve Miami
Here is a look at the NJTL First Serve Miami, who will have artistic duo Kiik Create make the public courts at Norman Jean Reach Park in Miami, Fla., their canvas on April 7 and 8.
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50 Moments That Mattered: Sampras comes of age at 19
He came out of California, displaying gifts few players possessed, playing the game with ineffable grace and immense power, serving his way effortlessly through arduous afternoons against obstinate opponents. And yet Pete Sampras was still a work in progress when he arrived for the 1990 US Open.
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Art Courts to re-imagine the look of tennis courts
Over the last 50 years, the US Open has served as a canvas for racquet-wielding artists at the highest level of tennis. In the build-up to this year's tournament, five professional artists will try their hands on court, trading racquets for paint brushes as they help to restore five public facilities across the country.
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50 Moments That Mattered: US Open blue courts make their debut
The 2005 US Open will be remembered by many for the sparkling title runs made by Roger Federer and Kim Clijsters, two of the sports most revered individuals. But there was a development that year that transcended the players and the results. The color of the hard courts was changed from green to blue.
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50 for 50: Marin Cilic, 2014 men's singles champion
That he might one day win a Grand Slam title had long been predicted for Marin Cilic. That he might win the 2014 US Open was a long shot, an unexpected result that came at the end of a befuddling fortnight. But this was no fluke.
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2018 US Open Spotlight: Danielle Collins
The Sunshine Swing of the WTA Tour has shined a light on 24-year-old Danielle Collins, as the former University of Virginia star has strung together a pair of career-best results in both Indian Wells, Calif., and Miami.
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50 Moments That Mattered: Clijsters turns motherhood into triumph
The ever-gracious Kim Clijsters left the game of tennis in 2007 and started a family. She returned to the tour in the summer of 2009 and played only two tournaments leading up to the US Open. But she found her game swiftly in New York, moving through the draw to become the first unseeded women's champion in the Open era.
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50 for 50: Lindsay Davenport, 1998 women's singles champion
With her spotless 1998 run, Lindsay Davenport went from promising player to Grand Slam champion. Davenport defeated Nathalie Tauziat, Amanda Coetzer and Venus Williams before dismissing Martina Hingis in the final, becoming the first American-born US Open women's singles champion since Chris Evert in 1982.
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The Open Interview: Rod Laver
USOpen.org contributing writer Steve Flink recently spent time interviewing Rod Laver, the only player—man or woman—to complete the calendar-year Grand Slam twice.
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50 Moments That Mattered: Unseeded Agassi wins the Open
Not since Fred Stolle in 1966 had an unseeded man or woman come through to win the U.S. Championships/US Open. But, then again, Agassi was not a typical unseeded competitor. There was nothing typical about him at all. One of a kind, Agassi turned that tournament upside down, enjoying every moment of a memorable journey.
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50 for 50: John Newcombe, 1973 men's singles champion
He was the last in a long line of legendary Australian greats who had dominated the sport for decades. He sported a mod moustache, had movie-star good looks, a gregarious, outgoing personality and a smashing tennis game. He was John Newcombe - or just "Newk" to his legions of fans.
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New US Open logo unveiled
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the US Open, the USTA has rolled out a new logo, ushering in the next 50 years of tennis in the United States.
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2018 US Open Spotlight: Naomi Osaka
Twenty-year-old Naomi Osaka captured her first career WTA title at one of the tour's biggest tournaments, the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., defeating another up-and-coming 20-year-old, Daria Kasatkina, 6-3, 6-2, in the final.
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50 Moments That Mattered: Evert wins first of six titles
After falling in the semifinals four years in a row, Chris Evert was determined to win her country's Grand Slam tournament. The 20-year-old found herself in a tense skirmish with Evonne Goolagong in the 1975, where she eventually prevailed, winning the first of six singles titles in New York.
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2018 US Open Spotlight: Lesia Tsurenko
Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko donned a sombrero during the trophy ceremony in Acapulco for the second straight year Sunday after successfully defending her title on the hard courts in Mexico.
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50 Moments That Mattered: Orantes makes comeback of all comebacks
Many tennis enthusiasts remember Manuel Orantes' masterpiece of clay-court wizardry against Jimmy Connors in the 1975 final, but his semifinal win over Guillermo Vilas was the defining moment of his career and one of the greatest comebacks ever recorded at a major tennis tournament.
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50 Moments That Mattered: Edberg's marathon title run
Stefan Edberg entered the 1992 US Open as the defending champion. A record 22 hours and 22 minutes of play later, he left with his second New York title and the world No. 1 ranking in hand, managing a trio of fifth-set escapes on the way.
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2018 US Open Spotlight: Frances Tiafoe
Twenty-year-old American Frances Tiafoe captured his first ATP World Tour title Sunday, defeating Germany's Peter Gojowczyk, 6-1, 6-4, in the final of the Delray Beach Open.
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50 for 50: Marat Safin, 2000 men's singles champion
Marat Safin was a titanic talent, with a game as mercurial as his personality and the kind of easy power that branded him a generational star. Throughout his 12-year professional career, he sometimes struggled to sync mind and body, but when he did, the outcome was often astounding. One such result came in Flushing Meadows in 2000.
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2018 US Open Spotlight: Kei Nishikori
Former US Open finalist Kei Nishikori legitimized his recent return from injury by grinding his way to the semifinals of the inaugural New York Open last week, notching the first Top 100 scalps of his comeback and putting a scare into eventual champion and world No. 9 Kevin Anderson in a three-set semifinal.
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The Open Interview: Sam Querrey
2017 US Open quarterfinalist Sam Querrey clinched his spot in the semifinals at the inaugural NY Open on Friday, and USOpen.org caught up with the world No. 12 post-victory.
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2018 US Open Spotlight: Kristina Mladenovic
World No. 13 Kristina Mladenovic carried the French team to victory last weekend in the France vs. Belgium Fed Cup first-round tie, winning three matches to advance France to the semifinal round against the United States. Here's more on the French MVP.
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Putting a lid on Louis
On Thursday, Feb. 8, a "topping out" ceremony was held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, as the final steel beam of the new Louis Armstrong Stadium's roof structure was lifted into place.
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50 Moments That Mattered: Henin's epic 24 hours
On fewer than five hours of sleep and coming off what was, at the time, the longest women's match in US Open history, Justin Henin-Hardenne turned tiredness into triumph to claim a memorable 2003 US Open title.
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50 for 50: Manuel Orantes, 1975 men's singles champion
In the first year the US Open was played on clay in 1975, one of the game's greatest grinders—Spain's Manuel Orantes—finished first at Forest Hills, playing his way to the title with a game that showcased equal amounts of grit, guts and gallantry and included one of the greatest comebacks in the history of the event.
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