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[0721] US Open Glory

【Chapter 0721】Glory of China

When the US Open enters the final stage of the men's and women's singles competition, the global media is also focusing on Flushing Park, where the pinnacle competition in world tennis will be staged!

Putting aside the subsequent Paris Masters and Marina Bay Masters Cup, the US Open is the most grand tennis event in 2007!

The U.S. Open is the fourth and last tennis Grand Slam event every year. It is usually held in New York from the end of August to the beginning of September every year. The event is divided into men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, and women's.

Doubles and mixed doubles pentathlon.

It is worth mentioning that mixed doubles evolved from the men's singles performance event in the early twentieth century. The first U.S. men's tennis championship was held in August 1881 at the Newport Casino in Rhode Island, USA (o)

Held at that time, only members of the National Tennis Association of the United States could participate. Since then, Newport has been hosting tennis matches as a tennis center for 34 consecutive years.

The men's doubles competition was held together with the men's singles in the first 7 years (1881-86). In fact, the U.S. Tennis Championships, the U.S. Open, were held in different locations nine times in history, including the United States Tennis Association's

National Tennis Center.

In 1887, six years after the men's championship became an annual event, the first officially organized United States Women's Singles Championship was held at the Cricket Club in Philadelphia, and in 1889 women's doubles also became an event in the game.

Of all the five events at the U.S. Open, the women's singles event is the most stable - it has only been held in three locations: Philadelphia, the Western Tennis Club and the U.S. Tennis Center.

The official start of the National Mixed Doubles Championship was in 1892, when it was held together with the women's singles and doubles. Until 1921, the mixed doubles was held together with the men's doubles at the United States Tennis Championships.

Starting in 1968, the U.S. Tennis Championships, which combines the five major U.S. tennis championships held in Forest Hills, New York, has been classified as an official open tournament. The total prize money that year was US$100,000, and there were 96 male players and 63 male players.

Female players competed in both men's and women's events. (Mixed doubles was not included in the competition in 1968.)

Although the impact of the U.S. Open is not as high as Wimbledon, it is higher than that of Australia and even the French Open. It is held every year, usually between August and September. It was originally called the "U.S. Championship" and was only participated by amateur players.

A championship. Through the unremitting efforts of the organizing committee, the US Open has developed from an amateur event to the world's richest Grand Slam tournament. The US Open held at the National Tennis Center every summer attracts more than 50 people.

Thousands of fans came to watch.

Since the Open era, John McEnroe has won three consecutive championships from 1979 to 1981, Lendl has won three consecutive championships from 1985 to 1987, and Sampras has won five championships here.

, but his five consecutive championships were eventually broken by Agassi.

Since the Open era, the "Ice Beauty" Chris Evert, the famous American player, has won four consecutive championships (1975, 1976, 1977, 1978), and is proud of the crowd with six championships. German Empress Stefan Graf

They have also won the championship five times. The Williams sisters in their previous life won a total of eight championships in the 15 years from 1999 to 2014, which can be said to occupy half of the world.

Today, only Gu Fei is close to achieving five consecutive championships. After winning four consecutive championships, he once again reached the US Open finals and may become the first person to win five consecutive US Open titles since Bill Thiel in 1924.

Men's players.

Therefore, Gu Fei reaching the US Open finals is an extremely important topic for many data-seeking fans and even media reporters.

At the beginning of the "Open Era" in 1968, the "U.S. Open" was officially formed and held at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York City. Starting in 1968, this event was open to all professional players. There were 96 players that year.

Men's players and 63 women's players competed, with a total prize money of US$100,000. In 1978, the competition venue was moved from Forest Hills to the current venue in Flushing Meadows (USTA National Tennis Center).

In the past few days, the global media has started a heated discussion surrounding the topic of the US Open men's singles winning five consecutive championships. Once Gu Fei wins the championship, it will be unprecedented!

Regarding the honor he was about to receive, Gu Fei was looking forward to it but also feeling anxious. After all, it would be embarrassing if he lost in the finals!

Therefore, after the women's singles semifinals, Gu Fei did not accept interviews from the media, but quickly returned to the Caiman Hotel to prepare for the match!

The media could do nothing about Gu Fei's lack of cooperation. After all, Gu Fei was not an ordinary player.

Media reporters can only frantically look for Dayao and others, trying to get some latest information from them.

However, Gu Fei's friends were very strict with their words, and the media could not obtain any substantive content.

For this reason, the media can only focus more on the event itself, including various introductions to the stadium.

The main stadium of the US Open is the 23,000-seat Arthur Ashe Stadium, named after the famous African-American tennis player Arthur Ashe who won the men's singles championship in 1968.

Arthur Ashe died of AIDS in 1993 due to an infection he received from a blood transfusion during heart surgery. No. 2 Louis Armstrong Stadium (L Stadium) was the main stadium before the completion of Arthur Ashe Stadium.

.All courts are hard courts, which also makes the ball speed in the US Open games always very fast, which makes many players who are good at serving and hitting the ball like a fish in water here!

Historically, players who have won multiple championships, including Sampras, are all serve-and-court players, which has something to do with the fast courts of the US Open.

The U.S. Open is unique in that it is the only Grand Slam tournament with lighting equipment in most of the courts. This means that the television broadcast can be extended to the prime time in the evening to increase ratings, and even the women's singles final is played by

The show was moved from Saturday afternoon to evening in order to get better ratings.

As the most commercially developed event among the current four Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open's broadcasting capabilities are stronger than those of the other three Grand Slam tournaments. This also demonstrates the strong national power and influence of the United States in the world today!

Beginning in 2005, the U.S. Open and all U.S. Open Series courses feature a blue infield and green outfield to show uniformity and to make it easier to see the ball. This change allows players and spectators alike to

There were various reactions. Many players said that the blue court did not make the ball visible more clearly, but the audience at the scene and in front of the TV could better see the trajectory of the game ball.

The United States is a highly commercialized society. Therefore, its level of commercialization of professional tennis is no less than that of professional boxing. The winners of the American men's and women's singles championships can each receive championship bonuses of more than one million US dollars. These are the four Grand Slam events.

The first tournament to achieve a million-dollar prize fund, it was also the first tennis tournament to achieve equal prize money for men and women.

The total prize money of the US Open is the highest among the "four major Opens", with the total prize money reaching more than 6 million US dollars. Due to the status and high prize money of the US Open, as well as the medium-speed hard court, it attracts many players to participate. According to the world

According to statistics from Tennis Magazine, the total amount of money involved in the 1989 U.S. Open was as high as $100 million.

The US Open has always been a favorite event for institutions, but with the emergence of Gu Fei, betting institutions’ betting on the US Open men’s singles champion has come to an end!

Different from the other three Grand Slams, in order to encourage players to participate, the US Open Organizing Committee established the US Open Series in 2004. Taking the 2007 US Open Series as an example, the US Open Series consisted of six ATP

The tournament and the five-stop event entered the US Open series one week earlier than the WTA event. The 2007 US Open series started with the Atlanta Tennis Championships on July 19.

It will start for six consecutive weeks until the arrival of the US Tennis Open on August 30. Among them, the ATP1000 Rogers Cup and the Cincinnati Masters (these two events in the WTA are the "Super Five") are the key events.

If you achieve good results in each event, you will receive higher event bonuses, world points, US Open series points, and even extra bonuses in the US Open.