Prize cash, seeds, schedule: All to know concerning the 2024 US Open tennis | Tennis Information

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What are the primary speaking factors? Who’re the defending champions and favourites? Al Jazeera explains.

The world’s high tennis athletes will look to get their arms on the yr’s final Grand Slam trophy when the US Open 2024 will get underneath means in New York on Monday.

Novak Djokovic will intention to increase his lead in males’s all-time singles Grand Slam title wins to 25 when he defends his title, whereas residence favorite Coco Gauff will look to shake off a poor run of kind in main tournaments and maintain the ladies’s singles crown she gained in 2023.

The match will start underneath the shadow of the newest doping scandal within the recreation as males’s high seed Jannik Sinner has been cleared to play regardless of failing two doping assessments in current weeks, inflicting a stir amongst fellow gamers with Djokovic questioning the “lack of standardised protocols” in tennis.

Al Jazeera breaks down all the main speaking factors and numbers forward of the opening spherical of matches:

When does the US Open 2024 important spherical start?

The primary draw of the match begins on Monday, August 26 with the primary spherical of girls’s and males’s singles matches.

The primary spherical of doubles matches get underneath means on Wednesday, August 28.

When are the US Open 2024 finals?

Males’s singles: Sunday, September 8 at 2pm (10:00 GMT)

Girls’s singles: Saturday, September 7 at 4pm (12:00 GMT)

Males’s doubles: Saturday, September 7 at 2pm (10:00 GMT)

Girls’s doubles: Friday, September 6 at 12pm (08:00 GMT) or Thursday, September 5 at 3pm (11:00 GMT)

Combined doubles: Friday, September 6 at 12pm (08:00 GMT) or Thursday, September 5 at 3pm (11:00 GMT)

The place is the venue of the US Open?

America Tennis Affiliation hosts the match on the Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle on the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park within the Queens borough of New York.

The US Open is the second hardcourt Grand Slam of the yr, after the Australian Open.

The finals are performed on the 23,771-capacity Arthur Ashe Stadium, whereas the Louis Armstrong Stadium, the Grandstand and Courtroom 17 are the opposite present courts of the match.

How are the gamers drawn within the match?

As in different Grand Slams, the highest 32 gamers within the ATP and WTA rankings enter the primary draw mechanically and are seeded to make sure that they don’t meet within the earlier rounds of the match.

A lot of the remaining entrants enter the primary spherical after taking part in qualifying rounds, whereas some – native gamers and former majors winners who’ve dropped in rankings – are handed wild card entries from match organisers.

Who’re the defending champions of the US Open?

Males’s singles: Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

Girls’s singles: Coco Gauff (US)

Males’s doubles: Rajeev Ram (US) and Joe Salisbury (UK)

Girls’s doubles: Erin Routliffe (New Zealand) and Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada)

Combined doubles: Anna Danilina (Kazasthan) and Harri Heliovaara (Finland)

Who’re the highest seeds?

Males’s singles (high 10):

1. Jannik Sinner (Italy)
2. Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
3. Carlos Alcaraz (Spain)
4. Alexander Zverev (Germany)
5. Daniil Medvedev (Russia/no flag)
6. Andrey Rublev (Russia/no flag)
7. Hubert Hurkacz (Poland)
8. Casper Ruud (Norway)
9. Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria)
10. Alex de Minaur (Australia)

Girls’s singles (high 10): 

1. Iga Swiatek (Poland)
2. Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus/no flag)
3. Coco Gauff (US)
4. Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan)
5. Jasmine Paolini (Italy)
6. Jessica Pegula (US)
7. Qinwen Zheng (China)
8. Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic)
9. Maria Sakkari (Greece)
10. Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia)

Who’re the favourites to win the US Open?

Males’s singles: 

• Alcaraz has been in red-hot kind through the summer season as he bagged each the French Open and Wimbledon in addition to an Olympic silver medal.
• Djokovic enters the match after successful the Olympic males’s singles gold and turning into solely the fifth singles participant to finish a profession Golden Slam.
• Sinner might be underneath sharp focus not solely as the highest seed and an in-form hardcourt participant, but additionally as a result of criticism of his current doping violation and clearance to take part.

Girls’s singles:

• Gauff might be backed by a raucous residence crowd and discover herself in snug territory as she makes an attempt to defend her first and solely Grand Slam title whereas seeded third.
• Sabalenka was the shedding finalist in 2023 however might be buoyed by her hardcourt Australian Open win earlier this yr and can plot a plan to dethrone Gauff whom she might meet within the last as soon as once more.
• Swiatek is the highest seed and the Olympic singles bronze medallist, who additionally has this the final three French Open titles in her bag. The Polish 23-year-old gained the US Open in 2022 and might be a favorite to repeat the feat.

What’s the prize cash?

The whole prize cash is $75m, a 15 % improve from 2023.

The US Open will hand out the best particular person prize cash of all 4 Grand Slams of 2024 with a $3.6m reward for singles champions, forward of the $3.51m awarded by Wimbledon in July.

Males’s and girls’s doubles champions will obtain $750,000, whereas combined doubles champions will obtain $200,000.

The breakdown within the singles class (women and men) is:

• Champions: $3.6m
• Runners-up: $1.8m
• Semifinalists: $1m
• Quarterfinalists: $530,000
• Spherical of 16: $325,000
• Third spherical: $215,000
• Second spherical: $140,000
• First spherical: $100,000

What are the 5 important speaking factors forward of the US Open?

• Sinner’s doping sin: The Italian’s important job in New York might be to not let the cloud over his doping controversy have an effect on his recreation. Whereas he’s stated he was glad that information was “lastly out” and that he hopes for “clear air” on the match after quite a lot of gamers alleged double requirements as he escaped a doping ban regardless of failing two drug assessments.
• Djokovic’s quest for quantity 25: The person with essentially the most singles Grand Slam titles has been eyeing a record-extending twenty fifth trophy all yr. He fell quick after reaching the ultimate at Wimbledon, however might be hoping a fifth US Open crown will take him to the summit as he appears to be like to interrupt Australian nice Margaret Courtroom’s report of 24 singles titles and seal his GOAT standing.
• Jabeur’s struggles with harm: Tunisia’s “Minister of Happiness” Ons Jabeur has introduced many a smile to the faces of tennis followers however has struggled to succeed in the ultimate weeks of main tennis tournaments in current months. Recurring accidents haven’t helped her trigger and the 2022 shedding finalist has needed to pull out on the eve of the US Open.
• Gauff underneath the burden of stress: Regardless of a poor run at majors this yr, Gauff says she perceives the stress of being residence favorite and defending champion as a “privilege” and can head into the match with a brand new motto: “In the event you defend, which means you gained one thing earlier than.”
• Non-Olympians hope relaxation will repay: Plenty of high tennis athletes opted out of getting a shot at Olympic glory with the hopes of utilizing the time to arrange themselves for the ultimate Grand Slam of the yr. The likes of Sabalenka, Sinner, Rublev and Rybakina had been lacking in motion and Paris however will look to profit from it in New York.

The place to observe and observe the US Open?

Al Jazeera will cowl the match with information studies and updates on main speaking factors, along with offering dwell textual content and photograph protection of each singles finals.

The next regional broadcasters have official rights to air the matches:

• Africa: beIN Sports activities and SuperSport
• Europe: Eurosport, Sky Sports activities, Puls4, SRF/RSI, Sportdeutschland.TV, SuperTennis and Telefonica/Movistar
• Asia Pacific and Oceania: CCTV, CJ ENM, Digicel, MIGU, 9, PCCW, Sportcast, TDM, SPOTV, Stan Sport, TVNZ and WOWOW
• India and subcontinent: Sony Sports activities Community
• Latin America and the Caribbean: ESPN Worldwide
• Center East: beIN Sports activities
• North America: ESPN, TSN, RDS