US Open Tennis Tournament is adding 15th day at the beginning of a Sunday in 2025

The US Open is expanding up to 15 days this year, transferring to the beginning of Sunday for the first time in the open age, which began in 1968.

Fans subscribed for ticket information from the USTA were notified of the last change in the season of the season Grand Slam Tennis Tournament – and its new date from August 24 to September 7 – via the emails sent on Wednesday. The US Tennis Association confirmed the extra day of the original-D-action for the 2025 tournament in a press release.

The additional day leaves the USK open Australian openWhich, from Monday to Sunday, a year ago and the French Open, which was the first Tennis Major after the 15th day in 2006 was added.

The first round in Flushing Medos will spread again within three days – Sunday, Monday, Tuesday – but otherwise, the USTA said, “After planning the first round, there is no more compatible in the single original drawing schedule.” Under the old 14 -day format, the tournament completed the opening round for three days until 2015, when it was cut by two.

This step is to leave Wimbledon as the last Grand Slam event that starts on Monday and has action in just 14 days. As it is, the grass-court tournament is just long because the All England Club The game was added on the mid -Sunday in 2022; Prior to that, the Tradition was only a 13 -day game at the oldest time of tennis major, with an off -off.

The US Open switch must increase revenue by sale tickets and get more exposure for sports. For example, the only combined Australian Open, for example, has created a record of presence in both versions of 15 days.

The USTA says its top event was “Record breaking presence in 2021.”

At that time, the players are accustomed to start on Sunday in Slam, but when the French Open started a 15-day trend, some-Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova, who both played on that initial Sunday in 2006-were vocal about not like the switch.

“I asked if I could play later. The answer was, ‘You are playing on Sunday, the fourth match,’ ‘Sharapova said at the time.

“How did it feel me? Okay, when you know that the French Federation, what they think they are thinking about selling tickets, money and (French) what they think about players don’t feel great, “he said.” I mean, it can’t be very happy about it . ”.