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U.S. Open History
"The US Open, which celebrates its 121st anniversary in 2003, has not always been the two-week extravaganza it is today. The change from an amateur event known as the U.S. National Championships to the US Open, the richest professional tennis event in the world, is the most obvious metamorphosis. The first U.S. National Singles Championship for men was held at the Newport Casino, Newport, R.I., in August 1881. Only clubs that were members of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association were permitted to enter. The advent of the Open Era in 1968 consolidated all five major U.S. tennis championships into the US Open at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, N.Y. A total of $100,000 was offered to the field of 96 men and 63 women who entered men’s and women’s singles and doubles that year. Today, the US Open offers more than $16million to a field of more than 600 men and women, including qualifying. In 2002, the men’s champion was Pete Sampras who became the oldest man to win the title (he is also the youngest) and Serena Williams won the women’s bracket." |
