The US Open kicks off this night because the world’s finest gamers head to New York for the ultimate Grand Slam of the 12 months.
Novak Djokovic, contemporary from his Olympic gold medal win, and Coco Gauff because the defending males’s and girls’s singles champions, however neither are favourites to retain their crowns.
Here is the whole lot it’s worthwhile to know…
When is the 2024 US Open?
Two weeks of tennis at Flushing Meadows begins on Monday, August 26, 2024 and runs by means of to Sunday, September 8, 2024.
The motion will get underway every day at 4pm BST and runs properly into the early hours in a single day. Night video games will start at midnight UK time.
The ladies’s singles ultimate is on Saturday, September 7 at 9pm BST. The boys’s singles ultimate is the next day, additionally at 9pm BST.
Novak Djokovic profitable the boys’s singles title final 12 months
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Which British gamers are competing?
Emma Raducanu has been handed a nasty-looking draw on the US Open as she seeks her first win in New York since profitable the title in 2021.
The 21-year-old shocked the world when she received at Flushing Meadows three years in the past however misplaced within the first spherical in 2022 after which missed final 12 months with harm.
The draw has been unkind to the British quantity two, who has drawn former Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin, presently ranked fifty fifth, within the first spherical.
If she wins that then American sixth seed Jessica Pegula is prone to be ready within the second spherical earlier than a doable all-British third spherical tie in opposition to Katie Boulter.
Raducanu might then have to beat eleventh seed Danielle Collins simply to get a crack at world primary Iga Swiatek within the quarter-final.
Boulter, seeded thirty first, has a extra beneficial path to a doable third-round assembly with Raducanu as she faces a qualifier within the first spherical after which will meet the winner of Jessica Bouzas Maneiro or Petra Martic within the second spherical.
Harriet Dart meets wild card Chloe Paquet, with a doable second-round tie in opposition to thirteenth seed Emma Navarro.
Jack Draper will hope to shake off the controversy that surrounds him with a first-round win over Zhizhen Zhang.
Draper, seeded twenty fifth, comes into the match on the again of accusations of dishonest after a controversial match level in opposition to Felix Auger-Aliassime the place the ball appeared to hit the ground on his aspect of the web earlier than bouncing over.
If the British primary, who’s flying the flag within the first grand slam since Andy Murray’s retirement, can progress by means of the early rounds, a possible third-round assembly with Carlos Alcaraz awaits.
Dan Evans, who has been struggling for kind in 2024, meets Karen Khachanov within the first spherical.
World primary Jannik Sinner is one other participant shrouded in controversy after he averted a doping ban, regardless of two constructive checks for a banned substance earlier this 12 months.
The Italian was cleared of any wrongdoing, with an investigation accepting Sinner’s rationalization that the substance had by chance entered his system by way of a product one among his crew had used to deal with a small wound.
American Mackenzie McDonald awaits within the first spherical.
Alcaraz and defending champion Novak Djokovic each meet qualifiers within the first spherical and the draw means their enthralling rivalry might presumably get its subsequent instalment within the ultimate.
Defending girls’s champion Coco Gauff begins in opposition to Varvara Gracheva, whereas Swiatek, gunning for a second title at Flushing Meadows, and Aryna Sabalenka, final 12 months’s runner-up meet qualifiers.
There’s a blockbusting assembly of former grand slam champions as Naomi Osaka takes on Jelena Ostapenko.
Emma Raducanu received the US Open in 2021
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Learn how to watch 2024 US Open?
TV channel: Within the UK, the US Open might be televised dwell on Sky Sports activities, throughout Sky Sports activities Essential Occasion, Sky Sports activities Tennis and each match is on the market on Sky Sports activities+.
Stay stream: Followers can watch the ultimate Grand Slam of the 12 months on-line by way of the Sky Go app and web site.
