The US Open Series is the name given by the United States Tennis Association (USTA) to a series of North American professional tennis tournaments leading up to and including the US Open. It is part of the "North American hard court season". Emirates sponsored the series in the past, under a deal in place from 2012 to 2016.[1] The series was initially organized in 2004 as a way to focus more attention on American tennis tournaments by getting more of them on domestic television.[2] Until 2004, most summer North American tournaments were not on television, the exceptions being the prominent ATP Tour Masters 1000 events in Canada and Cincinnati. Since the inception of the series, Rafael Nadal is the only tennis player to win Canada, Cincinnati, and the US Open in a calendar year (2013), a feat referred to as the "Summer Slam" or the "North American Hardcourt Slam".[3] [4]
Under the US Open's broadcast rights, ESPN held domestic rights to all US Open Series events from 2015 to 2019. The eight non-Masters tournaments receive about 50 hours of television combined - about two hours on each day of their final weekends, chiefly on ESPN2. The dual-gender Washington D.C. Citi Open (the only ATP 500-level tournament in North America), which had been a part of the series since its 2004 founding, withdrew from the series for its 2015 edition due to frustrations over this lack of coverage; that tournament sold its exclusive coverage to Tennis Channel.[5] [6] The tournament re-joined the US Open Series in 2019.[7] Since 2017, Tennis Channel broadcasts the US Open Series.
Players earn points for the US Open Series Bonus Challenge in order to win a bonus on top of the individual series tournaments' prize money, according to their results in these events. More points are awarded at some of the events, such as the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and WTA Premier 5 events.[8] The three male and three female players with the most points in the US Open Series Bonus Challenge earn a money purse. The amount depends on their US Open Series placement and US Open result. If both are won then the bonus is $1 million as of 2010. Lleyton Hewitt and Lindsay Davenport were the top point-getters in 2004, Andy Roddick and Kim Clijsters won in 2005, and Andy Roddick and Ana Ivanovic won in 2006. Defending US Open champions Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova won in 2007. In 2005, whereas Roddick was upset in the first round against Gilles Müller at the Open, Clijsters became the first player to win both the US Open Series and the US Open, receiving $2.2 million, at the time the largest payday in women's sports. Clijsters defeated Frenchwoman Mary Pierce in straight sets: 6–3, 6–1.[9] In 2010 she won $2.2 million again, this time $1.7 million for the US Open title and $500,000 in bonus for second place in the US Open Series.[10] In 2007, Federer became the first male player and the second player overall to win the US Open Series and go on to win the US Open, winning $1.4 million plus the US Open Series bonus of $1 million, bringing his prize winning total to $2.4 million.[11] This topped Clijsters' $2.2 million as the biggest US Open payday to date. In 2013, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal both won the US Open after also winning the US Open Series. Due to several considerable prize money increments over the years, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal surpassed Roger Federer's Us Open series payday record by winning $3.6 million each, and they shared the record for the largest prize money paycheck in tennis history for a single tennis tournament.[12] [13] In 2014, Serena Williams would repeat her previous year performance in winning both the US Open Series and the US Open. She now stands alone in the record for the biggest payday in tennis history, with a total amount of $4 million.[14] Starting from 2017, the US Open Series will not feature a Bonus Challenge.[15] [16]
See also: 2023 ATP Tour and 2023 WTA Tour.
| Legend | |
|---|---|
| Grand Slam | |
| ATP Tour Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 | |
| ATP Tour 500 & 250 and WTA 500 & 250 |
In 2023, the US Open Series comprises the following tournaments:[17]
| Week | Men's events | Women's events | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (Week of July 23) | Newport Hall of Fame Open | ||
| 2 (Week of July 30) | Atlanta Atlanta Open | ||
| 3 (Week of August 6) | Washington, D.C. Mubadula Citi Open | ||
| 4 (Week of August 13) | Montreal/Toronto National Bank Open presented by Rogers | ||
| 5 (Week of August 20) | Cincinnati Western & Southern Open | ||
| 6 (Week of August 27) | Winston-Salem Winston-Salem Open | Cleveland Tennis in the Land | |
| 7–8 (Weeks of September 3 / September 10) | New York US Open | ||
| width=100 | Round | width=180 | ATP Masters 1000 WTA Premier 5 | width=180 | ATP World Tour 500 & 250 WTA Premier |
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| Quarterfinalist | |||||
| Round of 16 |
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| Round of 16 |
| width=100 | Round | width=180 | ATP Masters Series WTA Tour Tier I | width=180 | WTA Tour Tier II | width=180 | ATP International Series ($600,000 and above) | width=180 | ATP International Series (below $600,000) |
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| Round of 16 |
| Year | New Haven/Winston-Salem | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Not US Open Series | Haas (1/2) |  Roddick (1/5) |  Hewitt (1/2) | Federer (1/9) | Agassi (1/2) | Hewitt (2/2) |
| 2005 | Agassi (2/2) | Ginepri (1/2) | Roddick (2/5) |  Nadal (1/6) | Federer (2/9) | Blake (1/3) | |
| 2006 | Haas (2/2) | Blake (2/3) |  Clément (1/1) | Federer (3/9) | Roddick (3/5) |  Davydenko (1/1) | |
| 2007 |  Štěpánek (1/2) | Tursunov (1/1) | Roddick (4/5) | Djokovic (1/6) | Federer (4/9) | Blake (3/3) | |
| 2008 |  Del Potro (1/4) | Simon (1/1) | Del Potro (2/4) | Nadal (2/6) |  Murray (1/5) | Čilić (1/2) | |
| 2009 | Querrey (1/3) | Ginepri (2/2) | Del Potro (3/4) | Murray (2/5) | Federer (5/9) | Verdasco (1/1) | |
| 2010 | Querrey (2/3) | Fish (1/2) | Nalbandian (1/1) | Murray (3/5) | Federer (6/9) |  Stakhovsky (1/1) | |
| 2011 | Gulbis (1/1) | Fish (2/2) | Štěpánek (2/2) |  Djokovic (2/6) | Murray (4/5) | Isner (1/8) | |
| 2012 | Querrey (3/3) | Roddick (5/5) | Dolgopolov (1/1) | Djokovic (3/6) | Federer (7/9) | Isner (2/8) | |
| 2013 | Not held | Isner (3/8) | Del Potro (4/4) | Nadal (3/6) | Nadal (4/6) |  Melzer (1/1) | |
| 2014 | Isner (4/8) |  Raonic (1/1) | Tsonga (1/1) | Federer (8/9) | Rosol (1/1) | ||
| 2015 | Isner (5/8) | Not US Open Series | Murray (5/5) | Federer (9/9) | Anderson (1/2) | ||
| 2016 | Kyrgios (1/2) | Djokovic (4/6) | Čilić (2/2) | Carreño Busta (1/1) | |||
| 2017 | Isner (6/8) | Zverev (1/2) | Dimitrov (1/1) | Bautista Agut (1/1) | |||
| 2018 | Isner (7/8) | Nadal (5/6) | Djokovic (5/6) | Medvedev (1/3) | |||
| 2019 | de Minaur (1/1) | Kyrgios (2/2) | Nadal (6/6) | Medvedev (2/3) |  Hurkacz (1/1) | ||
| 2020 | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Djokovic (6/6) | Cancelled | |
| 2021 | Anderson (2/2) | Isner (8/8) |  Sinner (1/1) | Medvedev (3/3) | Zverev (2/2) |  Ivashka (1/1) |
| Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Davenport (1/4) | Davenport (2/4) | Davenport (3/4) | Not US Open Series | Mauresmo (1/1) | Bovina (1/1) | Not held |
| 2005 |  Clijsters (1/5) | Pierce (1/1) | Clijsters (2/5) | Clijsters (3/5) | Davenport (4/4) | ||
| 2006 | Clijsters (4/5) | Sharapova (1/3) | Dementieva (1/2) | Ivanovic (1/2) | Henin (1/2) | ||
| 2007 | Chakvetadze (1/1) | Sharapova (2/3) | Ivanovic (2/2) | Henin (2/2) | Kuznetsova (1/2) | ||
| 2008 | Wozniak (1/1) | Not held | Safina (1/2) | Safina (2/2) | Wozniacki (1/5) | ||
| 2009 | Bartoli (1/1) | Pennetta (1/1) | Janković (1/1) | Dementieva (2/2) | Wozniacki (2/5) | ||
| 2010 | Azarenka (1/3) | Kuznetsova (2/2) | Not held | Clijsters (5/5) | Wozniacki (3/5) | Wozniacki (4/5) | |
| 2011 | S. Williams (1/7) | Radwańska (1/3) | Sharapova (3/3) | S. Williams (2/7) | Wozniacki (5/5) | ||
| 2012 | S. Williams (3/7) |  Cibulková (1/2) | Rybáriková (1/1) |  Li (1/1) | Kvitová (1/4) | Kvitová (2/4) | |
| 2013 | Cibulková (2/2) | Stosur (1/1) | Not US Open Series | Azarenka (2/3) | S. Williams (4/7) |  Halep (1/3) | |
| 2014 | S. Williams (5/7) | Not held | S. Williams (6/7) | Radwańska (2/3) | Kvitová (3/4) | ||
| 2015 | Kerber (1/1) | Not US Open Series | S. Williams (7/7) | Bencic (1/1) | Kvitová (4/4) | ||
| 2016 | Konta (1/1) | Not held | Ka. Plíšková (1/1) | Halep (2/3) | Radwańska (3/3) | ||
| 2017 | Keys (1/2) | Muguruza (1/1) | Svitolina (1/1) | Gavrilova (1/1) | |||
| 2018 | Buzărnescu (1/1) | Bertens (1/1) | Halep (3/3) | Sabalenka (1/1) | |||
| 2019 | Zheng (1/1) | Keys (2/2) | Andreescu (1/1) | Not held | |||
| 2020 | Cancelled | Azarenka (3/3) | Cancelled | ||||
| 2021 | Collins (1/1) | Barty (1/1) | Giorgi (1/1) |  Kontaveit (1/1) |
Note: From 2006 on, only players who earned points in at least two US Open Series events are eligible for the final (Top 3) standings.
| US Open results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center width=30 | A | did not participate in the tournament | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee |
| lost in the early rounds of the tournament |
| align=center bgcolor=#ffebcd | QF | advanced to but not past the quarterfinals | align=center bgcolor=yellow | SF | advanced to but not past the semifinals |
| align=center bgcolor=#D8BFD8 | F | advanced to the finals, tournament runner-up | align=center bgcolor=lime | W | won the tournament |
| Year | Player (ATP Tour) | Points | US Open | Player (WTA Tour) | Points | US Open | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center rowspan=3 style=color:#ccc | 2004 | width=200 | 1. Lleyton Hewitt1 | align=right width=50 | 155 | align=center bgcolor=#D8BFD8 | F | width=200 | 1. Lindsay Davenport1 | align=right width=50 | 100 | align=center bgcolor=yellow | SF |
| width=200 | 2. Andy Roddick | align=right width=50 | 155 | align=center bgcolor=#ffebcd | QF | width=200 | 2. Amélie Mauresmo | align=right width=50 | 100 | align=center bgcolor=#ffebcd | QF | ||
| width=200 | 3. Andre Agassi | align=right width=50 | 123 | align=center bgcolor=#ffebcd | QF | width=200 | 3. Elena Likhovtseva | align=right width=50 | 85 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 1R | ||
| align=center rowspan=3 style=color:#ccc | 2005 | width=200 | 1. Andy Roddick | align=right width=50 | 120 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 1R | width=200 | 1. Kim Clijsters | align=right width=50 | 225 | align=center bgcolor=lime | W |
| width=200 | 2. Andre Agassi | align=right width=50 | 105 | align=center bgcolor=#D8BFD8 | F | width=200 | 2. Mary Pierce | align=right width=50 | 100 | align=center bgcolor=#D8BFD8 | F | ||
| width=200 | 3. Rafael Nadal2 | align=right width=50 | 100 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R | width=200 | 3. Amélie Mauresmo | align=right width=50 | 80 | align=center bgcolor=#ffebcd | QF | ||
| align=center rowspan=3 style=color:#ccc | 2006 | width=200 | 1. Andy Roddick | align=right width=50 | 147 | align=center bgcolor=#D8BFD8 | F | width=200 | 1. Ana Ivanovic | align=right width=50 | 127 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R |
| width=200 | 2. Fernando González | align=right width=50 | 124 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R | width=200 | 2. Maria Sharapova | align=right width=50 | 122 | align=center bgcolor=lime | W | ||
| width=200 | 3. Andy Murray | align=right width=50 | 105 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 4R | width=200 | 3. Kim Clijsters | align=right width=50 | 120 | A | |||
| align=center rowspan=3 style=color:#ccc | 2007 | width=200 | 1. Roger Federer | align=right width=50 | 170 | align=center bgcolor=lime | W | width=200 | 1. Maria Sharapova | align=right width=50 | 122 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R |
| width=200 | 2. James Blake | align=right width=50 | 167 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 4R | width=200 | 2. Jelena Janković | align=right width=50 | 107 | align=center bgcolor=#ffebcd | QF | ||
| width=200 | 3. Andy Roddick | align=right width=50 | 112 | align=center bgcolor=#ffebcd | QF | width=200 | 3. Patty Schnyder3 | align=right width=50 | 97 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R | ||
| align=center rowspan=3 style=color:#ccc | 2008 | width=200 | 1. Rafael Nadal4 | align=right width=50 | 145 | align=center bgcolor=yellow | SF | width=200 | 1. Dinara Safina | align=right width=50 | 170 | align=center bgcolor=yellow | SF |
| width=200 | 2. Andy Murray | align=right width=50 | 145 | align=center bgcolor=#D8BFD8 | F | width=200 | 2. Marion Bartoli | align=right width=50 | 90 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 4R | ||
| width=200 | 3. Juan Martín del Potro | align=right width=50 | 140 | align=center bgcolor=#ffebcd | QF | width=200 | 3. Dominika Cibulková | align=right width=50 | 85 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R | ||
| align=center rowspan=3 style=color:#ccc | 2009 | width=200 | 1. Sam Querrey | align=right width=50 | 175 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R | width=200 | 1. Elena Dementieva | align=right width=50 | 170 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 2R |
| width=200 | 2. Andy Murray | align=right width=50 | 145 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 4R | width=200 | 2. Flavia Pennetta5 | align=right width=50 | 140 | align=center bgcolor=#ffebcd | QF | ||
| width=200 | 3. Juan Martín del Potro | align=right width=50 | 140 | align=center bgcolor=lime | W | width=200 | 3. Jelena Janković | align=right width=50 | 140 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 2R | ||
| align=center rowspan=3 style=color:#ccc | 2010 | width=200 | 1. Andy Murray6 | align=right width=50 | 170 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R | width=200 | 1. Caroline Wozniacki | align=right width=50 | 185 | align=center bgcolor=yellow | SF |
| width=200 | 2. Roger Federer | align=right width=50 | 170 | align=center bgcolor=yellow | SF | width=200 | 2. Kim Clijsters | align=right width=50 | 125 | align=center bgcolor=lime | W | ||
| width=200 | 3. Mardy Fish | align=right width=50 | 140 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 4R | width=200 | 3. Svetlana Kuznetsova7 | align=right width=50 | 115 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 4R | ||
| align=center rowspan=3 style=color:#ccc | 2011 | width=200 | 1. Mardy Fish | align=right width=50 | 230 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 4R | width=200 | 1. Serena Williams | align=right width=50 | 170 | align=center bgcolor=#D8BFD8 | F |
| width=200 | 2. Novak Djokovic | align=right width=50 | 170 | align=center bgcolor=lime | W | width=210 | 2. Agnieszka Radwańska8 | align=right width=50 | 130 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 2R | ||
| width=200 | 3. John Isner | align=right width=50 | 140 | align=center bgcolor=#ffebcd | QF | width=200 | 3. Maria Sharapova | align=right width=50 | 130 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R | ||
| align=center rowspan=3 style=color:#ccc | 2012 | width=200 | 1. Novak Djokovic | align=right width=50 | 170 | align=center bgcolor=#D8BFD8 | F | width=200 | 1. Petra Kvitová | align=right width=50 | 215 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 4R |
| width=200 | 2. John Isner | align=right width=50 | 140 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R | width=200 | 2. Li Na | align=right width=50 | 170 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R | ||
| width=200 | 3. Sam Querrey | align=right width=50 | 135 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R | width=200 | 3. Dominika Cibulková | align=right width=50 | 100 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R | ||
| align=center rowspan=3 style=color:#ccc | 2013 | width=200 | 1. Rafael Nadal | align=right width=50 | 200 | align=center bgcolor=lime | W | width=200 | 1. Serena Williams | align=right width=50 | 170 | align=center bgcolor=lime | W |
| width=200 | align=right width=50 | 185 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R | width=200 | 2. Victoria Azarenka | align=right width=50 | 145 | align=center bgcolor=#D8BFD8 | F | |||
| width=200 | align=right width=50 | 130 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 2R | width=210 | 3. Agnieszka Radwańska | align=right width=50 | 130 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 4R | |||
| align=center rowspan=3 style=color:#ccc | 2014 | width=200 | 1. Milos Raonic9 | align=right width=50 | 280 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 4R | width=200 | 1. Serena Williams9 | align=right width=50 | 430 | align=center bgcolor=lime | W |
| width=200 | 2. John Isner9 | align=right width=50 | 200 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R | width=200 | 2. Angelique Kerber9 | align=right width=50 | 150 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 3R | ||
| width=200 | align=right width=50 | 170 | align=center bgcolor=yellow | SF | width=200 | 3. Agnieszka Radwańska | align=right width=50 | 125 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 2R | |||
| align=center rowspan=3 style=color:#ccc | 2015 | width=200 | 1. Andy Murray | align=right width=50 | 145 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 4R | width=200 | 1. Karolína Plíšková9 | align=right width=50 | 150 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 1R |
| width=200 | 2. Novak Djokovic | align=right width=50 | 140 | align=center bgcolor=lime | W | width=200 | 2. Serena Williams | align=right width=50 | 145 | align=center bgcolor=yellow | SF | ||
| width=200 | 3. John Isner | align=right width=50 | 95 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 4R | width=200 | 3. Simona Halep | align=right width=50 | 140 | align=center bgcolor=yellow | SF | ||
| align=center rowspan=3 style=color:#ccc | 2016 | width=200 | 1.  Kei Nishikori | align=right width=50 | 85 | align=center bgcolor=yellow | SF | width=200 | 1. Agnieszka Radwańska9 | align=right width=50 | 220 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 4R |
| width=200 | 2. Grigor Dimitrov10 | align=right width=50 | 70 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 4R | width=200 | 2. Johanna Konta9 | align=right width=50 | 170 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 4R | ||
| width=200 | align=right width=50 | 70 | align=center bgcolor=#afeeee | 2R | width=200 | 3. Simona Halep | align=right width=50 | 145 | align=center bgcolor=#ffebcd | QF | |||
| align=center style=color:#ccc | 2017 | align=center colspan=6 | Bonus challenge not held |