| US Open Series | |
| Current: | 2023 US Open Series |
| Founded: | 2004 |
| Abolished: | 2023 |
| Country: | United States |
| Surface: | Hard-court |
| Website: | USOpenSeries.com |
| Type: | defunct |
The US Open Series was 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 was part of the "North American hard-court season".
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.[1] 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".[2] [3]
Since the Series' inception, North American tournaments have shifted in and out of the Series. In 2023, its final year, the Series was made up of six tournaments: Newport, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Winston-Salem, Cleveland, and the US Open itself.[4] In 2024, the US Open Series website began redirecting to the US Open's official website, indicating the final end to the Series.[5]
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 received about 50 hours of television combined - about two hours on each day of their final weekends, chiefly on ESPN2. The Washington Open, which had been a part of the series since its 2004 founding, withdrew from the series starting with its 2015 edition due to frustrations over this lack of coverage and sold its exclusive coverage to Tennis Channel.[6] [7] The tournament rejoined the US Open Series in 2019.[8] Since 2017, Tennis Channel broadcasts the US Open Series, except for the US Open itself, which is broadcast by ESPN.
Emirates sponsored the series under a deal in place from 2012 to 2016.[9] The $90 million, seven-year sponsorship deal was supposed to last through 2018, but Emirates decided to reallocate its commitment by sponsoring the line-calling technology on ESPN's US Open Series broadcasts.[10]
See main article: 2023 US Open Series.
| 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 (1/3) | 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 (1/2) | Kyrgios (2/3) | 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) | |
| 2022 | Cressy (1/1) | de Minaur (2/2) | Kyrgios (3/3) | Not US Open Series | Ćorić(1/1) | Mannarino (1/2) | |
| 2023 | Mannarino (2/2) | Fritz (1/1) | Evans (1/1) | Not US Open Series | Báez (1/1) |
| Year | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Davenport (1/4) | Davenport (2/4) | Davenport (3/4) | Not US Open Series | Mauresmo (1/1) | Bovina (1/1) |
| 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) | ||
| 2022 | Kasatkina (1/1) | Not US Open Series | Garcia (1/1) | Not US Open Series | Samsonova (1/1) | |
| 2023 | Not held | Gauff (1/1) | Not US Open Series | Sorribes Tormo (1/1) |
Upon the Series' creation in 2004, the US Open Series Bonus Challenge was introduced. Each event in the series would award a certain number of points depending on the event's tier (such as Premier 5), with players accumulating points based on how they performed.[11] At the end of the Series, the top three male and top three female players with the most Bonus Challenge points would earn prize money in addition to the prize money earned from the individual tournaments. The amount depended on their placement in the Bonus Challenge standings and their US Open result. In 2010, for example, this amounted to $1 million for winning both the Bonus Challenge and the US Open itself.
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.[12] 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.[13] 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.[14] 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.[15] [16] 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.[17] Starting from 2017, the US Open Series ceased featuring a Bonus Challenge.[18] [19]
| width=100 | Round | width=180 | ATP Masters 1000 WTA Premier 5 | width=180 | ATP World Tour 500 & 250 WTA Premier |
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| Finalist | |||||
| Semifinalist | |||||
| Quarterfinalist | |||||
| Round of 16 |
| width=100 | Round | width=180 | ATP Masters Series WTA Tour Tier I | width=180 | ATP International Series WTA Tour Tier II |
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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 |
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 no longer held |