How To Qualify For The 2024 US Open Tennis
by James Kevin Stott
- The US Open
- US Open Finals
- How To Qualify For The US Open Tennis Tournament?
- Qualifying by World Ranking
- Making the Field by the Qualifying Tournament
- Qualifying by Wild Card Selection
- US Open Singles Betting Odds
- Australian Open Over, French Open Underway, Wimbledon Comes in July
Thumbnail: Arthur ashe stadium interior by Davidwboswell (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The US Open
The last of the four tennis Grand Slam events, the 2024 US Open will serve up on Monday, August 26, and run through Sunday, September 8, from the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York.
The main stadium (center court) of this hardcourt (Laykold) tournament is Arthur Ashe Stadium. In the 2023 US Open, Serbian Novak Djokovic won the Men's Singles championship, while American Coco Gauff was the Women's Singles winner.
US Open Finals
The 2024 US Open Women's Singles Final is scheduled to be played on Saturday, September 7, at 4 pm ET, and the 2024 US Open Men's Final is slated for Sunday, September 8, at 2 pm ET. Both matches will be televised on ABC in the United States. Gates will open at 11 am. ET on both of those days.
The main draw of the Men's and Women's Singles tournaments consists of 128 players. US Open Qualifying for these 128 spots can come in three different ways we will look at below.
Tickets for the 2024 US Open are available now, so take advantage of your chance to visit the Big Apple and the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and witness the only Grand Slam event to be played annually on American soil.
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How To Qualify For The US Open Tennis Tournament?
Let's take a look at some of the specifics of the three different ways to qualify for The US Open for players in the Singles category. Players must be at least 14 years of age, and there is no maximum age limit for prospective players.
Pete Sampras (19 years old, 28 days) was the youngest Men's Singles winner in the US Open in 1990, while William Larned (38 years, 8 months, 3 days) was the oldest Men's Singles winner way back in 1911.
Tracy Austin (16 years, 8 months, 28 days) was the youngest Women's Singles winner in 1979, with Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (42 years, 5 months, 27 days) the oldest Women's Singles winner, a feat she achieved almost a century ago in 1926.
Qualifying by World Ranking
There are 104 players in this prestigious Grand Slam tournament who earn automatic US Open Qualifying by virtue of their world rankings in the sports two respective governing bodies. For the Men, it is the ATP rankings (Association of Tennis Professionals), while for the Women, it's determined by the WTA rankings
2023 US Open winner Novak Djokovic is currently the No. 1 ranked Men's player on the ATP Tour, with Iga Świątek of Poland, the current Women's No. 1 player on the WTA Tour.
Last year, in the 2023 US Open, Alvarez entered the tournament as the top-seeded male player, while Świątek came in as the No. 1 seed in the Women's bracket. Alvarez lost to Russian Daniil Medvedev in the Semifinals, while Świątek was upset by Latvian Jeļena Ostapenko in the fourth round of play in three sets.
US Open Qualifying is theoretically the easiest way to get yourself into the 128 players in the Men's or Women's brackets as it is an automatic process and doesn't involve playing your way in the Qualifying Round or hoping you get selected by a human in for one of Wild Card spots.
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Making the Field by the Qualifying Tournament
In the US Open, there are 16 spots in both the men's and women's singles brackets for US Open Qualifying, and these are the first matches to be played at the event. These players aren't ranked high enough in the ATP or WTA to earn automatic US Open Qualifying.
The 16 players who qualify will have won all three of their matches, and their US Open Qualifying Results will see them all advance to the respective Men's and Women's brackets. So, these players essentially will "play themselves in" the 2024 US Open tournament.
There are also 128 players in the US Open Qualifying rounds who are pared down from 128 to 64 (Round 1), 64 to 32 (Round 2), and 32 to 16 (Round 3), and who qualify for the Main Draw after the US Open Qualifying Results.
Last year, Jaume Munar of Spain and Nao Hibino of Japan were the respective Men's and Women's No. 1 seeds in the Qualifying Draw round. Still, both players were abruptly eliminated in straight sets in Round 1 of Qualifying Tournament play. This year, the Qualifying matches will be played from Monday, August 19, through Thursday, August 22. They will start at 11 am ET, with the gates opening at 10 am ET. The 2024 US Open Qualifying tournament is a part of US Open Fan Week.
One of the nice things about this event is that during US Open Fan Week, fans are given free access to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and the US Open grounds. ESPN will again provide live coverage of the US Open Qualifying Tournament—as well as the entire 2024 US Open—with some live coverage on ESPNews each day of Fan Week, with all of the matches airing on ESPN+.
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Qualifying by Wild Card Selection
The last way on How To Qualify For The US Open is to be one of eight players selected by the Wild Card Committee. Prospective Wild Card players in the United States can communicate with individual tournament directors about local wild cards for their respective events.
The eight Men's Wild Card selections in the 2023 US Open were Benjamin Bonzi, Rinky Hijikita, John Isner, Steve Johnson, Alex Michelsen, Michael Mmoh, Ethan Quinn, and Learner Tien. Quinn was awarded a wild card spot in the tournament after capturing the 2023 NCAA Men's Singles National Championship as a then 19-year-old freshman at the University of Georgia.
The eight Women's Wild Card players in the 2023 US Open were Kayla Day, Fiona Ferro, Storm Hunter, Ashlyn Krueger, Robin Montgomery, Clervie Ngounoue, Venus Williams, and Caroline Wozniacki. Williams was a two-time US Open winner (2000, 2001) and made her 24th appearance, while Dane legend Wozniacki was a two-time finalist in the US Open.
US Open Singles Betting Odds
The latest futures market betting odds from Oddschecker for the 2024 Men's US Opens Singles champion show defending champion Djokovic as the favorite to repeat at +140 (bet $100 to win $140) with Spaniard Carlos Alcarez, the bookie second choice at +160.
Oddschecker shows both Świątek and Belarussian Aryna Sabalenka as the current co-favorites to become the 2024 Women's US Open champion at +300 odds (3/1), with defending champ Gauff currently priced at +650 (13/2).
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Australian Open Over, French Open Underway, Wimbledon Comes in July
The first Grand Slam event of the year was the 2024 Australian Open, which was held from January 14 through January 28 at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Italian Jannik Skinner won the Men's Singles, rallying to beat Daniil Medvedez in five sets in the final, while Belarussian Aryna Sabalenka emerged as the Women's Singles winner, defeating Zheng Qinwen of China in straight sets.
The 2024 French Open, the second Grand Slam event of the calendar year, began this week (May 20). This historic red clay court tournament will run through Sunday, June 9, at Roland Garros Stadium in Paris, France.
The third Grand Slam tournament will be the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world. It will be played from Monday, July 1, through Sunday, July 14, at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England. All four of these Grand Slam tournaments are contested over a two-week period.
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