US Open (tennis)
US Open Tennis 2010 results & US Open tennis schedule: Roddick sinks in the US Open. It was a thriller at the US Open as it witnessed some major upset. Ace tennis player Andy Roddick failed to sail through the match. Roddick was defeated by the bearded, bespectacled and quite brilliant Serb, Janko Tipsarevic, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (4).
Also, there was some drama attached to the match. The drama started in the third set when Roddick was trailing 2-5. A female line judge called Roddick for a foot fault. However, after a while she suggested that it was the player’s right foot that had caught the line when questioned.
Roddick got irritated by this. And he yelled: “That’s impossible.” Roddick was right. But he started complaining to the umpire and then to his coach Larry Stefanki and, of course, to the unfortunate official sitting implacably on the line.
“She kept insisting it was my right foot,” explained Roddick. “I was stupefied. But, yes, I did let it go on too long.” However, in the match it was his rival Tipsarevic who had the upper hand.
Roddick praised him and said: “I was waiting for him to crack, but he didn't. I thought I hit the ball pretty well. He played very high risk and executed for four sets. I kept telling myself, you know, this has to have an expiration date on it but it didn’t. I was just trying to make him keep coming up with it. From all ends of the court, just firing, pulling the trigger down the line, flat, time after time — that is not an easy thing to do and he was able to do it. Kudos to him. He played great.”
The US Open has grown from an exclusive entertainment event for high society to a championship for more than 600 male and female professional players who, as of 2008, compete for total prize money of over US$19 million, with $1.5 million for each winner of the singles tournaments.
In the first few years of the United States National Championship, only men competed, and only in singles competition. The tournament was first held in August 1881 at the Newport Casino, Newport, Rhode Island and in that first year only clubs that were members of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association were permitted to enter. From 1884 through 1911, the tournament used a challenge system whereby the defending champion automatically qualified for the next year's final. In 1915, the tournament moved to the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills, New York. From 1921 through 1923, it was played at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia and returned to Forest Hills in 1924.
Six years after the men's nationals were first held, the first official U.S. Women's National Singles Championship was held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in 1887, followed by the U.S. Women's National Doubles Championship in 1889. The first U.S. Mixed Doubles Championship was held alongside the women's singles and doubles. The first U.S. National Men's Doubles Championship was held in 1900. Tournaments were held in the east and the west of the country to determine the best two teams, which competed in a play-off to see who would play the defending champions in the challenge round.
The open era began in 1968 when all five events were merged into the US Open, held at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York. The 1968 combined tournament was open to professionals for the first time. That year, 96 men and 63 women entered the event, and prize money totaled $100,000 ($625,336 in current dollar terms).
In 1970, the US Open became the first of the Grand Slam tournaments to use a tiebreak at the end of a set. The US Open is also the only Grand Slam that continues to use the tiebreak in the 5th set. All the other three grand slams play it out with service games in the 5th set.
The US Open was originally played on grass until Forest Hills switched to Har-Tru clay courts in 1975 for three years. In 1978, the event moved north from Forest Hills to its current home at nearby Flushing Meadows and the surface changed again, to the current DecoTurf.
Jimmy Connors is the only individual to have won US Open singles titles on all three surfaces, while Chris Evert is the only woman to win on two surfaces.
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The US Open, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships, is a tennis tournament which is the modern incarnation of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, with the U.S. National Championship, which for mens' singles was first contested in 1881. Since 1987, the US Open has been chronologically the fourth and final tennis major comprising the Grand Slam tennis tournament each year.
It is held annually in August and September over a two-week period (the weeks before and after Labor Day weekend). The main tournament consists of five different event championships: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, with additional tournaments for senior, junior, and wheelchair players. Since 1978, the tournament has been played on acrylic hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York City.
The US Open is unique in that there are final-set tiebreaks; in the other three Grand Slam tournaments, the deciding set (fifth for men, third for women) continues until it is won by two
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