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US open tennis
Since 125 years ago it began with the name of the US National Championships as a part time event and has become this tournament the most profitable tennis tournament on the world.
This Competition expanded from a single men’s tournament that entertained the upper class to a tournament that now includes women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles and mixed doubles.
The first U.S. National Championships took place at the Newport Casino, Newport In August 1881. The tournament was only open to members of the US National Lawn Tennis Association. Newport would stay the country’s tennis center for 34 years.
In 1887, the first official women’s national singles championship took place at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, followed by the women’s doubles two years later.
Officially the U.S. Mixed Doubles Championship started in 1892.
Black American Arthur Ashe won the first men’s final at the U.S. Open in 1964, while Virginia Wade, a British player, claimed the inaugural women’s U.S. Open title just five months into her professional career.
Arthur Ashe Stadium was named after the aforementioned men’s winner and became the main stadium, which was Louis Armstrong Stadium, now court number 2.
Games have been played on an acrylic hard court since 1978 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the Queens borough of New York City. In professional tennis, the U.S Open is the fourth and final Grand Slam.
In 2006, Roger Federer bested Andy Roddick to win his third straight US Open title , while Maria Sharapova downed Justine Henine Hardenne in two sets to claim her first US Open women’s championship
Today, the US Open remains an event revered for its history and respected for its drama; thousands tune-in world wide to watch their favorite players in pursuit of the American Championship.
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