US Open 2026 runs 23 August to 13 September at Flushing Meadows. The mixed doubles title was decided on 26 August, four days before the singles main draw opened. Jannik Sinner is not here. The prize money is 108 million dollars. This page tracks the tournament from the ticketing announcements through to the third round, and is updated as it is played.
The US Open announced on 29 January 2025 that its singles main draws would expand to 15 days with a Sunday start, adding a day of play at the front of the tournament. It was presented then as a change to the 2025 edition. The tournament's April 2026 ticketing post says the 15-day main draw returns following last year's success, so 2026 is the second running of it.
The USTA announced total player compensation of 90 million dollars for the 2025 US Open, up 20 per cent on the 75 million paid in 2024. The singles champions took 5 million dollars each, up from 3.6 million the year before. ESPN reported prize money across all competitions at close to 85 million, with the rest made up of player support and other compensation. Those are still the figures on the tournament's published prize money page, which matters later on this page.
The USTA reported total attendance across the three weeks of the 2025 US Open at 1,144,562. That was up 9 per cent on 2024, and above a million for the second year running. Main draw singles and doubles attendance passed 900,000 for the first time, at 905,255. Fan Week accounted for 239,307 of the total, up 10 per cent.
The USTA announced on Monday 17 November 2025 that Eric Butorac would become tournament director of the US Open, succeeding Stacey Allaster. Butorac played professionally for 14 years and reached the top 20 in ATP doubles. He was a doubles finalist at the 2014 Australian Open. He joined the USTA in 2016 and ran the Cincinnati Open in 2022, and he was tournament director of the new mixed doubles event in 2025. Allaster, the first woman to hold the role, moved into a strategic advisor position in May 2026. The 2026 tournament is Butorac's first in charge.
The tournament published its on-sale dates. Amex presale opened at 09:00 ET on Tuesday 26 May and closed at 23:59 ET on Wednesday 27 May, with public on-sale at 12:00 ET on Thursday 28 May. The post told returning fans that the public on-sale was starting earlier in the year than before and at a new time of day. The same post confirmed the singles main draws would again run 15 days, opening Sunday 30 August and finishing Sunday 13 September.
The reimagined Mixed Doubles Championship won Sports Breakthrough of the Year at the 2026 Sports Business Journal Awards. The USTA's own account of the 2025 edition gives the numbers. Sixteen teams played for 1 million dollars across two days of Fan Week. Coverage ran on 17 networks in more than 170 countries and territories, including 13 hours across ESPN2 and ESPNews. Arthur Ashe Stadium sold out on both days, and more than 20,000 people scanned a Fan Access Pass to watch free in Louis Armstrong Stadium on the Tuesday. The same USTA page describes the field as including 13 of the Top 10 WTA and ATP players. That is the tournament's wording, reproduced here as published.
Public on-sale day, and the day the tournament published the shape of the thing. Twenty-two days of tennis and entertainment, 23 August to 13 September, eight of them with free grounds admission. The USTA calls it the largest event schedule and the most competition days in the tournament's near-150-year history. The same post listed the changes. Arthur Ashe Kids' Day moves to open Fan Week on Sunday 23 August. Free grounds admission now covers seven Fan Week days plus one day inside the main draw. The Mixed Doubles Championship gains a day of qualifying.
Worth recording because it is still there. The 28 May post gives the Mixed Doubles main draw as Tuesday, Aug. 24 and the semifinals and final as Wednesday, Aug. 25. In 2026, 24 August is a Monday. The tournament's published Schedule of Play and its own entry-list post of 3 August both put the first round and quarterfinals on Tuesday 25 August, and the semifinals and final on Wednesday 26 August. The weekday names in the May post are right and the dates attached to them are a day early. Nobody has corrected it.
The tournament published an updated mixed doubles entry list running to 29 teams, ordered by combined singles ranking. Aryna Sabalenka and Novak Djokovic head it. Also entered are Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud, the 2025 runners-up; Venus Williams and Alexander Bublik; Elina Svitolina and Gael Monfils; Naomi Osaka and Kei Nishikori; and the siblings Peyton and Preston Stearns. Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori, who won it in 2025, are in to defend. Neither Carlos Alcaraz nor Jannik Sinner appears on the list. The entry window is scheduled to close at noon on Monday 17 August. The top six teams by combined singles ranking at that moment are directly accepted. Eight places go to wild cards, and two more are due to be won through an eight-team qualifying draw on Monday 24 August. Tickets in Arthur Ashe Stadium start at 30 dollars for the Tuesday and 45 dollars for the Wednesday night session.
The tournament published its Fan Week guide. The headline addition is an exhibition scheduled for 19:30 on Tuesday 25 August in Arthur Ashe Stadium, billed as Roger Federer: An Icon Returns to New York, with Andy Roddick, Andre Agassi and John McEnroe also playing. A separate ticket is required. Two other things are worth knowing before turning up. The free Fan Access Pass is now compulsory for everyone aged 18 and over entering the grounds during Fan Week, and it lives in the US Open app. The giveaway this year is a set of Marvel covers built around Spider-Man, one classic and five limited editions for the five boroughs, going to the first 1,000 fans each day between 24 and 28 August.
The tournament is being played on a building site. The USTA is midway through an 800 million dollar self-funded reinvestment in the National Tennis Center, which the tournament describes as the largest single investment in US Open history. Reported splits put roughly 600 million of that on Arthur Ashe Stadium and 250 million on a new Player Performance Center, which adds up to more than the headline figure; the tournament's own renovation page gives no breakdown. The performance centre is going up in what used to be Parking Lot A. Phase 1 finished in 2025 and was mostly column reinforcement. Phase 2 is active across 2025 and 2026, replacing the old courtside and suite levels with an expanded bowl and two new luxury suite levels. Phase 3 runs into 2027 and brings a Grand Entrance designed by Daniel Libeskind. The tournament lists about 2,000 additional courtside seats and a promenade concourse 40 per cent larger. Players do not get inside the finished performance centre until the 2027 US Open.
As of 12 August the tournament's prize money page still carried the 2025 table. That is 5 million dollars to each singles champion and 110,000 dollars for a first-round loss, against 90 million dollars in total player compensation. The 2025 figures had been announced on 6 August 2025, about three weeks before that year's main draw opened. Several aggregator sites were already publishing a 2026 total of 95 million dollars. The figure appeared on no USTA or usopen.org page. At least one of the sites carrying it described 95 million as an increase of over 20 per cent on 90 million, which it is not. The real number, published eight days later, was 108 million.
The USTA published the 2026 prize money on 20 August. Total player compensation is 108 million dollars, up 20 per cent on the 90 million paid in 2025 and the largest package in the history of the sport. Each singles champion takes 5.5 million. A first-round loser takes 140,000. The number did not arrive on its own. Through the spring the leading ATP and WTA players had been pressing all four majors for a larger share of Grand Slam revenue, around 15 per cent now against a stated target of 22 per cent by 2030, and in May they ran coordinated protests through the press at Roland-Garros. Alongside the money the USTA announced a 2 million dollar player support programme and a Grand Slam Player Advisory Council. The players welcomed it. Nothing was staged in New York. The aggregator sites that spent August publishing 95 million were out by 13 million.
Jannik Sinner withdrew on 21 August with an injury to his right knee. He was the world number one and he had not missed a major since Wimbledon in 2019. He said he was sad and disappointed, which under the circumstances covers it. His absence reordered the top of the men's draw. Alexander Zverev became the first seed and Carlos Alcaraz, the defending champion, the second. Casper Ruud withdrew with a back injury, Joao Fonseca with an abdominal one, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Ugo Humbert both with backs. Stan Wawrinka and Gael Monfils are playing their last major here.
Scheduled for 20:00 ET in Louis Armstrong Stadium: The Lumineers, with Petey USA supporting. Ticketed. It is set two days ahead of the official opening of Fan Week.
Fan Week opens. Arthur Ashe Kids' Day, which used to sit later in the week, is scheduled to run 09:30 to 18:00 as the first day of the 2026 US Open, with programming extended this year. The stadium show in Arthur Ashe is scheduled for 11:00 to 12:30 and features the Savannah Bananas alongside US Open players, with a meet and greet afterwards. On courts 4 to 7, the US Open Qualifying Wildcard Challenge is scheduled 10:00 to 16:00. It is two matches, a semifinal and a final, and the winner takes a place in the qualifying tournament. Free with a Fan Access Pass.
Scheduled for 17:00 to 19:00 at Fountain Plaza, Monday 24 to Friday 28 August. Live music and drink offers. Free with a Fan Access Pass. It is on the official lineup, so it is here.
Qualifying is scheduled to begin on the field courts and run through to Thursday 27 August. The draw is 128 men and 128 women competing for the last 16 places in the singles main draws. The tournament says qualifying players are traditionally ranked between No. 100 and No. 250 in the world. Free with a Fan Access Pass. Mixed doubles qualifying is scheduled for 11:00 in the Grandstand on the same day, also free. Eight teams are in that draw, playing for two main draw places. Six of the eight are direct entries and two are wild cards. This qualifying day did not exist in 2025.
Two things are scheduled for Tuesday 25 August. The Mixed Doubles Championship plays its first round and quarterfinals at 10:00 in Louis Armstrong Stadium, which is free with a Fan Access Pass. Arthur Ashe Stadium follows at 11:00, where tickets start at 30 dollars. Then at 19:30 in Arthur Ashe, the Federer exhibition. The scoring is worth knowing before watching it. Matches up to the semifinals are best of three, with sets to four games and a tie-break at four-all. Scoring is no-advantage. A 10-point tie-break replaces a third set.
Arthur Ashe Stadium sold out for an exhibition. Roger Federer beat Andy Roddick 6-3 over a single set, then partnered John McEnroe against Roddick and Andre Agassi and won that one 7-5. The crowd was on its feet before he had hit a ball, and the tournament put a drone show over the stadium afterwards. Federer told the crowd it was great to be back in New York. He also recalled his first match on a centre court, against Agassi, and the 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 that came of it. Uniqlo sold limited RF caps on the concourse. Four days later he went into the Hall of Fame.
Karolina Muchova and Jakub Mensik won the Mixed Doubles Championship on the evening of 26 August, beating Belinda Bencic and Flavio Cobolli 6-3, 1-6, 10-6 in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Both champions are Czech. It was the first title of the 2026 US Open, decided four days before the singles main draw began. The final was played to its own rules. Sets ran to six games with a tie-break at six all, scoring was no-advantage, and a 10-point tie-break stood in for a third set, which is how a two-set match finished 10-6. Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori, who won the reimagined event in 2025, did not retain it. Aryna Sabalenka and Novak Djokovic, who headed the entry list on combined singles ranking, did not win it either.
The last day of qualifying, and the last of the five Fan Week play sessions on the published schedule. Stars of the Open is scheduled for 18:00 in Arthur Ashe Stadium, in its fourth consecutive year, with Alexandra Eala, Joao Fonseca, Iva Jovic and Learner Tien named to play. A separate ticket is required and part of the proceeds go to the USTA Foundation. Free grounds admission is scheduled to continue through Saturday 29 August, even though the published Schedule of Play lists no qualifying sessions after this day.
Roger Federer and Mary Carillo entered the International Tennis Hall of Fame on 29 August, four days after the exhibition and the day before the singles began. Federer went in at the first opportunity. Carillo went in as a broadcaster, having called the sport for four decades after a short playing career that produced a French Open mixed doubles title with John McEnroe in 1977. It closed Fan Week. The gates stopped being free the following day.
The singles main draws opened on Sunday 30 August with two ticketed sessions. Gates at 09:30 for an 11:00 start, then gates at 18:00 for a 19:00 start, first round in both. It was the second year of the 15-day format. One scheduling note sits in the published Schedule of Play. Matches in Arthur Ashe Stadium begin at 11:30 on every day of the main draw except 30 August and the four days 10 to 13 September. Opening day is one of the exceptions.
The second round finished on 3 September with a rain backlog of fourteen matches cleared and three seeded men gone. Karen Khachanov beat the third seed Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-2, 6-2, losing the opening tie-break and then losing eight games in three sets. Botic van de Zandschulp beat the sixth seed Alex de Minaur 6-4, 7-5, 6-2. Dane Sweeny beat the thirteenth seed Lorenzo Musetti 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. Fifteen Americans reached the third round, the most since 2002. Taylor Fritz conceded one game to Mattia Bellucci. Madison Keys was 5-2 down in the third against Anna Bondar and won 5-7, 6-4, 7-6(5). Naomi Osaka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina, Amanda Anisimova, Alexander Zverev, Alexandra Eala, Iva Jovic, Learner Tien and Michael Zheng all came through.
Carlos Alcaraz is seeded second and playing his first tournament in more than four months, after a wrist injury at the Barcelona Open. He dropped the opening set to Jaime Faria and then took twelve of the next fifteen games, winning 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, 6-2. Aryna Sabalenka, defending champion and world number one, needed 53 minutes to beat Polina Iatcenko 6-1, 6-1. Daniil Medvedev, who won here in 2021, beat Sebastian Gorzny 6-1, 6-3, 7-5. Jessica Pegula beat Sofia Kenin 6-3, 6-1 in under an hour. Ben Shelton needed four sets to get past Hubert Hurkacz, 6-3, 5-7, 7-6(3), 7-5. Emma Navarro beat Caty McNally 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 and Frances Tiafoe beat Rei Sakamoto 6-3, 7-6(2), 7-5. Sloane Stephens, the 2017 champion, lost to the eleventh seed Marta Kostyuk 6-1, 7-5. Linda Noskova, who won Wimbledon in July, is still in the draw. No American man has won a major in twenty-three years. With Sinner at home, Shelton is the one being asked about it.
Ben Shelton, seeded eighth, beat the defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in five sets in a quarterfinal that ended at 3:33 a.m. on 10 September. It was the latest finish in the history of the tournament, beating the record set by Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner in 2022. Alcaraz had come to New York after four months out with a wrist injury. The other quarterfinals that night went more quickly. Elena Rybakina beat Zheng Qinwen 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, which guaranteed that she would replace Aryna Sabalenka as world number one whatever happened next. Coco Gauff saved two match points in the second-set tie-break and beat Mirra Andreeva 2-6, 7-6(7), 6-2. Alexander Zverev beat Botic van de Zandschulp 6-2, 7-5, 6-1. For the first time since 1975 the top four women's seeds were all in the semifinals in New York.
Aryna Sabalenka beat Jessica Pegula 7-5, 6-2 in the first semifinal on 10 September, her 20th consecutive win at the US Open and her third final in a row here. The second set was not close. Gauff won the first set of the night match 6-3 in front of a crowd that included Michelle Obama. Rybakina broke twice in the second, was pulled back to 4-4, broke again, and won 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 in two hours and eight minutes. The final was therefore the world number one against the woman who had already taken the ranking from her.
Zverev beat Karen Khachanov 6-3, 7-6(7), 7-6(6) on 11 September. He was 3-5 down in the second-set tie-break and 2-5 down in the third, and won three more points than his opponent across the match. It was his third consecutive major final. The night semifinal was all American. Frances Tiafoe took the first set, Shelton took the next three, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5. Shelton became the first Black American man to reach the final in New York since Arthur Ashe in 1972. Tiafoe is now 0-3 in US Open semifinals, and the last two defeats were to Americans.
Elena Rybakina beat Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 on 12 September in two hours and 21 minutes. Sabalenka had won the two previous titles and 20 straight matches in Flushing Meadows. Each of them left the court for the locker room after losing a set. Rybakina came back from hers and took the third 6-2. It was Rybakina's third major and her second of 2026, after the Australian Open final in January against the same opponent. She went to number one in the rankings on the Monday.
Alexander Zverev beat Ben Shelton 6-3, 7-6(2), 5-7, 6-2 on 13 September. Shelton broke him in the last game of the third set, the first time in 66 service games that anyone had, and then lost the fourth. Zverev had lost the 2020 final here from two sets up. It was his second major, after the French Open in June. He is the first German man to win the US Open since Boris Becker in 1989, and only the fourth man in the Open Era to win his first two majors in the same year. Andy Roddick, in 2003, remains the last American man to win a singles major. Shelton rose to a career-high number four.
Compiled 12 August 2026, brought up to date on 4 September with the third round being played, and completed on 27 September with the results of both finals. Late-round scores are from the AP, Reuters and the tournament's own match reports. Primary sources on usopen.org: the Schedule of Play; the ticket on-sale post of 23 April; the Sports Business Journal award post of 21 May; the 22-days announcement of 28 May; the mixed doubles entry list of 3 August; the Fan Week guide of 4 August; the prize money announcement of 20 August; the Sinner withdrawal notice of 21 August; and the daily results reports. Construction phasing comes from the tournament's renovation page at hospitality.usopen.org. Secondary reporting was used for the 2025 attendance total, the appointment of Eric Butorac, the prize money dispute and the first week of play, drawn from ESPN, CBS Sports, Sportico, Front Office Sports, Al Jazeera, The Washington Post and Sports Illustrated. Pictures are Wikimedia Commons files of the venues and of players in earlier competition. There is no free photography of the 2026 event itself.