Following this week’s Western & Southern Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the ATP Tour will continue on with the US Open. The draw for the 2020 edition will be held on Thursday in New York, with World No. 1 Novak Djokovic set to lead the field. 

Djokovic is a three-time champion at this hard-court major (2011, ’15, ’18), and will be going for his second Grand Slam title of the season following his triumph at the Australian Open. Dominic Thiem, who finished runner-up to Djokovic in Melbourne, will be seeded second.

Third seed Daniil Medvedev will look for another memorable run at Flushing Meadows, where he rallied from two sets down against Rafael Nadal in the 2019 final before the Spaniard prevailed 7-5, 6-3, 5-7, 4-6, 6-4 after a four-hour, 49-minute battle.

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Five different players have won the US Open over the past decade. In addition to Djokovic and Nadal (2010, ’13, ’17, ’19), champions include Andy Murray (2012), Marin Cilic (2014) and Stan Wawrinka (2016). Murray, who fought past Frances Tiafoe and Alexander Zverev in the first two rounds of the Western & Southern Open, is a wild card entry. 

Here’s all you need to know about the US Open: when is the draw, what is the schedule, where to watch, who has won and more.  

Established: 1881

Tournament Dates: 31 August – 13 September 2020

Director: Stacey Allaster

Draw Ceremony: Thursday, 27 August

Schedule (View On Official Website)
* Main draw: Monday, 31 August – Monday, 7 September at 11:00am and 7:00pm
* Singles quarter-finals, doubles semi-finals: Tuesday, 8 September – Wednesday, 9 September at 12:00pm.and 7:00pm
* Doubles final: Thursday, 10 September at 3:00pm
* Singles semi-finals: Friday, 1 September at 4:00pm
* Singles final: Sunday, 13 September at 4:00pm

How To Watch
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Venue: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center

Prize Money: $21,656,000

Honour Roll (Open Era)
Most Titles, Singles: Jimmy Connors, Roger Federer, Pete Sampras (5)
Most Titles, Doubles: Mike Bryan (6)
Oldest Champion: Ken Rosewall, 35, in 1970
Youngest Champion: Pete Sampras, 19, in 1990
Lowest-Ranked Champion (since 1979): No. 20 Andre Agassi in 1994
Most Match Wins: Jimmy Connors (98)

2019 Finals
Singles: [2] Rafael Nadal (ESP) d [5] Daniil Medvedev (RUS) 75 63 57 46 64  Read More
Doubles: [1] Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL) / Robert Farah (COL) d [8] Marcel Granollers (ESP) / Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 64 75 Read More

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Did You Know… The US Open bears little resemblance to the tournament started in 1881. It has evolved from an exclusive men’s singles and doubles tournament in Newport, R.I., to a two-week sports and entertainment extravaganza held at Flushing Meadows. More than 700,000 fans enter the gates annually at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, but the 2020 tournament will be played without fans on site due to COVID-19.

Stefanos Tsitsipas advanced to his first Western & Southern Open quarter-final on Tuesday, beating 2013 runner-up John Isner 7-6(2), 7-6(4).

“It was a very difficult match. My level of focus and attention had to be there all the time,” Tsitsipas said. “John is a very unpredictable player. He can be very aggressive sometimes. If you don’t play with first serves, it can get quite dangerous with him, so I think being aggressive and pressing all the time was something very important today.” 

Tsitsipas held his nerve in two tie-break sets and won 84 per cent of first-serve points (38/45) to advance after one hour and 42 minutes. The 22-year-old improves to 15-5 this year following his second victory in four ATP Head2Head contests against Isner.

“I did feel very comfortable, didn’t feel any nerves. Even when it came to the tie-breaks. I felt very comfortable and decisive with the tactics I wanted to follow,” Tsitsipas said. “Overall it was a great performance and I think I can still improve a few things in tomorrow’s match. Not putting any pressure on me, but I think I can be even more aggressive and play with higher percentages.”

Tsitsipas is bidding to reach his third straight final on the ATP Tour. In his two most recent events prior to the ATP Tour suspension, the World No. 6 lifted the Open 13 Provence trophy and finished as runner-up at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the second straight year.

Following his win against 6’10” Isner, Tsitsipas will meet another big-serving American, 6’11” Reilly Opelka, in the quarter-finals. Opelka landed 19 aces and dropped just two points behind his first serve (33/35) to eliminate sixth seed Matteo Berrettini 6-3, 7-6(4).

After 11 service games without a break point, Tsitsipas was unable to convert set point at 5-6, 30/40, in the first set. But the reigning Nitto ATP Finals champion moved up the court behind his forehand and served well to clinch the opener with a dominant tie-break performance. The Greek converted his second set point with an ace down the T, his fourth ace of the match.

Another tie-break was needed in the second set and Tsitsipas made the crucial breakthrough at 4/4. The five-time ATP Tour titlist forced Isner into his backhand corner with depth to extract an error and earned two match points with a powerful forehand up the line. Tsitsipas needed only one opportunity, directing the ball back into Isner’s backhand corner to force another mistake from his opponent.

Milos Raonic earned his first win against Andy Murray in more than six years on Tuesday evening, snapping an eight-match losing streak against the former World No. 1 with a 6-2, 6-2 victory in the third round of the Western & Southern Open.

In a battle of former Top 5 players, Raonic stormed through the first set before play was suspended at 6:18 p.m. local time due to torrential rain. About an hour and a half later, Raonic broke in the first game after the resumption and never looked back. He advanced to the quarter-finals after one hour and 29 minutes.

“I just really tried to do the things that I’m good at well, and that was really my intention,” Raonic said. “A lot of those things I did well today.”

In the first tournament since play was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March, Raonic has picked up where he left off. The 29-year-old reached the semi-finals of his most recent event at the Delray Beach Open by VITACOST.com, and he also made the Australian Open quarter-finals (l. to Djokovic).

The quick courts of Flushing Meadows are helping Raonic, who crushed 10 aces and won 88 per cent of his first-serve points. The World No. 30 has won all 27 of his service games this week and saved each of the five break points he has faced.

Murray, who underwent his second hip surgery after last year’s Australian Open, showed vintage form on Monday to beat 2018 Nitto ATP Finals champion Alexander Zverev in three gruelling sets. But the big-serving Raonic kept the Brit from finding much rhythm, winning all eight of his service games. 

“The fact that he’s able to beat a Top 10 player doesn’t surprise me. I think Andy holds himself to a high standard,” Raonic said. “There is a piece of metal in his hip, and there are not many guys coming back from that, so congratulations to him. Every single time he does step out there, it’s going to be impressive each time.”

Murray looked sharp in the early rallies against Zverev, mixing up paces and outmaneouvring the German. But his baseline game was not as crisp against Raonic. The wild card dumped an inside-out forehand into the net at 2-2 in the first set to give the former World No. 3 the early break, a sign of things to come. Raonic kept Murray, one of the best returners of this generation, from getting solid strikes on his returns by using his power and mixing up locations.

The key moment came at 3-2 in the second set, when Murray earned his only two break points. Raonic shrugged off the first with a swinging forehand volley and the second with a low volley.

Raonic hadn’t beaten Murray since the 2014 BNP Paribas Open. The pair’s most recent battle came at the 2016 Nitto ATP Finals, where Murray saved a match point to beat the Canadian 5-7, 7-6(5), 7-6(9), keeping his year-end No. 1 dreams alive.

“I don’t know how much of it was due to the conditions at the beginning or if I was just a little bit slow. I don’t know,” Murray said. “But I was really not happy with that at all. I have much higher standards than that. Not good enough tonight.”

Raonic will compete in the last eight of the Western & Southern Open for the fifth time, next facing Filip Krajinovic. The Serbian, who defeated second seed Dominic Thiem in the second round, eliminated Hungarian qualifier Marton Fucsovics 6-2, 6-1.

Krajinovic has lost only 15 games in three matches to reach his first ATP Masters 1000 quarter-final since he made the championship match of the 2017 Rolex Paris Masters.

Steve Johnson and Austin Krajicek upset second seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo 6-3, 7-6(4) on Tuesday to reach the Western & Southern Open quarter-finals.

The Americans won 81 per cent of their service points (48/59) to overcome the 2017 semi-finalists in 77 minutes. Krajicek and Johnson are yet to drop a set this week, having beaten Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen 6-0, 6-2 in the first round.

The unseeded pairing will next face Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau, who beat seventh seeds Raven Klaasen and Oliver Marach in straight sets on Monday.

Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski built on their first-round victory against top seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah. The Brits outlasted Nikola Cacic and Dusan Lajovic 6-3, 4-6, 10-5 and will meet Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies in the quarter-finals.

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The sixth seeds rallied from a set down to defeat Jurgen Melzer and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 3-6, 6-4, 10-4. Krawietz and Mies are attempting to capture their first ATP Masters 1000 trophy in only their fifth tournament appearance at the level this week.

Reilly Opelka continued his sweep into the Western & Southern Open quarter-finals — his first at ATP Masters 1000 level — on Tuesday with a brisk 75-minute victory.

Opelka recorded just the fifth Top 10 win of his career with a 6-3, 7-6(4) triumph over sixth seed Matteo Berrettini. He now challenges fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas or 2013 finalist John Isner.

Opelka struck 29 winners, including 19 aces, and forced Berrettini into a forehand error for the only break of the match in the eighth game. The American won 33 of his 35 first-service points, committed 12 unforced errors and clinched 51 points under three shots to Berrettini’s 38.

Overall this week in New York, Opelka has struck 50 aces, including 18 against Cameron Norrie in the first round and 13 against Diego Schwartzman in the second round.

The 22-year-old is now 10-3 on the season, suspended for five months due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. He lifted his second ATP Tour title in February at the Delray Beach Open by VITACOST.com.

Novak Djokovic charged past Tennys Sandgren 6-2, 6-4 at the Western & Southern Open on Tuesday afternoon to extend his unbeaten start to the year to 20 matches.

The World No. 1 won 84 per cent of first-serve points (26/31) and saved all four break points he faced to advance after 88 minutes. Djokovic underwent a medical timeout in his opening match against Ricardas Berankis on Monday evening to have his neck worked on, also reaching for his head in the second set after an awkward landing. But the 2018 champion showed no physical issues in the third round.

“I’m as close to [being] painless [in my] neck as I
can be,” Djokovic said. “I’m feeling very good and that has obviously positively reflected on my game today.”

Djokovic is chasing his second trophy at this ATP Masters 1000 event this week. Two years ago, he became the first singles player to complete the Career Golden Masters by winning the Western & Southern Open for the first time. If Djokovic lifts the title, he will equal Rafael Nadal’s record haul of 35 Masters 1000 crowns.

Djokovic improves to 3-0 in his ATP Head2Head series against Sandgren, with two of those wins coming at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The Serbian also beat Sandgren in four sets en route to the 2018 US Open title.

The five-time year-end World No. 1 made a quick start on Grandstand, breaking Sandgren’s serve in the opening game by moving up the court and playing with consistent depth from the baseline to force errors. Djokovic dictated rallies with his backhand to claim a second break at 4-2, before holding serve for a one-set lead.

Djokovic used his backhand to attack Sandgren’s forehand and earn a third break of serve at the start of the second set. After failing to convert five match points at 5-3, Djokovic held serve to love with a forehand winner to confirm his place in the last eight.

Djokovic will face Jan-Lennard Struff for a semi-final spot in New York. The 33-year-old is unbeaten in three ATP Head2Head contests against Struff.

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Struff broke new ground early Tuesday afternoon when the 30-year-old beat 2019 finalist David Goffin 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

“It was a tough one, very close one again. The conditions were very hot again. Yesterday I thought it was a bit worse, the conditions, but David is a very tough player,” said Struff, who narrowed his ATP Head2Head deficit against the Belgian to 2-3. “I had some chances, he had some chances… the last game was really good.”

The German powered past the seventh seed in two hours and nine minutes with a devastating final game of all-out attack. Struff hit 35 winners, including a bludgeoned forehand return on his first match point. It is the World No. 34’s eighth Top 10 victory, with six of those coming since the start of last season. He has won seven of his past 15 matches against the elite group.

”I played some good tennis early on [against Top 10 players] as well, but I lost the matches most of the time,” Struff said. “That gave me a bit of experience how it is to be on court with them… I played good tennis [today] and I’m very happy to get another Top 10 win.”

Djokovic has only lost a set in five of his 20 matches this season. One of those was in the first round of the Australian Open against Struff.

“It will be very nice. I played him at the Australian Open, which was a very good match, I think, a very good match for me,” Struff said. “I would love to play him again.”

Daniil Medvedev powered his way past qualifier Aljaz Bedene on Tuesday to keep alive his chances of retaining the Western & Southern Open title.

Third seed Medvedev was too solid in a 6-3, 6-3 victory over 68 minutes for a place in the quarter-finals, where he’ll play No. 11 seed Karen Khachanov or eighth seed Roberto Bautista Agut.

“I returned much better than yesterday and was more solid,” said Medvedev. “To win by this score and quite easily against Aljaz is a big challenge. I got used to the conditions better today. It wasn’t easy for him as it was already his sixth match and I just took my chances. I don’t feel the courts are extra fast this year.”

Medvedev broke twice in the 31-minute first set, with a backhand winner at 1-1, 0/40 and when Bedene hit a forehand into the net in the ninth game. Medvedev won 90 per cent of his first-service points, while Bedene committed 16 unforced errors as the hot conditions in New York hindered the Slovenian. Medvedev took a 3-1 lead in the second set and didn’t look back.

Bedene beat No. 13 seed Cristian Garin and Taylor Fritz in his first two matches at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

I hope everyone has been enjoying the tennis so far at the Western & Southern Open! I’m very pleased that tennis is back and I wanted to bring you behind the scenes and tell you what a day is like for me in New York.

I was very happy to get a three-set win in the second round against Denis Shapovalov yesterday. The day started many hours earlier with something important… breakfast!

I always order some breakfast from room service. I don’t go downstairs here, instead eating by myself in my room. Normally I enjoy breakfast with friends, but it’s obviously a different situation. I’ve been staying alone with my team, and we all eat breakfast separately.

I always speak with my girlfriend and my young son in the morning. Sometimes I have very bad luck, because my little one has nap time in the afternoon. From when I wake up until I leave, he is sleeping most of the time. If I play early in the day, I’m not happy because I cannot see him sometimes. Then I’m practising and it’s tough to see him on FaceTime because he has a nap.

I was talking to my girlfriend for 25 minutes yesterday morning and then the little one woke up and I had almost 10 more minutes with him, which was great. It was like I ate my breakfast with them, which was quite nice. My little son had lunch at the same time, so it was very funny.

Then I took a shuttle to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center with my team at 9 a.m. That is where things started to get a bit different. Since there are no fans this year, players who will be seeded in the US Open — the Western & Southern Open is at the same venue because of the pandemic — were provided with a private suite inside Arthur Ashe Stadium. That is where I go right away in the morning. I’m very happy about having that space, because I have time to be alone there and relax and talk to my coach ahead of the day’s match.

After we arrived we went to warm up with Karen Khachanov from 10:30-11 a.m. Then I went to the locker room to shower and got both of my ankles taped before having some lunch. Since the match between Felix Auger-Aliassime and Tennys Sandgren went a bit long, I ordered one more rice portion. Then I warmed up outside by the gym and was ready for the match.

In a normal year here I would have eaten something upstairs in the player’s restaurant. Sometimes hanging out in the locker room after that to watch some matches is nice, and if there’s a great battle going on the atmosphere is amazing. It could be tough to get your focus, but you get used to it. This year it’s not that busy because we have a restriction for how many players are allowed in the locker room. Normally you have to try to look for a spot where you can relax, put your music on and get ready. Sometimes I’ll talk with friends as I prepare my racquets and drinks.

It’s quite a bit different, but in general the habits before the match are not changing. Yesterday I stayed in the suite and watched some matches. I have two TVs so I can watch different matches, which I really like. It’s good because it’s a bit quieter and you can stay alone with your team before the match. I watched a bit of Daniel Evans against Milos Raonic, Daniil Medvedev playing Marcos Giron and a bit of Felix, too.

In my first match against Alex de Minaur, since there weren’t many people by the court, I was able to recognise some of the players in the stands. I think Dennis Novak and Kevin Krawietz were among the guys there. But for us, it’s much better to play with fans for sure.

It was a bit weird not having fans when I played against Denis. There was still a lot of energy from both of us, though. We both wanted to win and we both gave everything we had. I still enjoyed the battle. With fans it would have been even better, but I was happy to win 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-4.

Another thing that is different is that after the match, we put our masks on and go straight back. There are no autographs to sign or pictures to take. I remember trying to get autographs when I was a kid. Pictures were impossible at that point because we didn’t have smart phones! It’s not always possible to make everyone happy, but I like to give autographs and take pictures because I remember how much it meant to me and how happy I felt when I was able to get an autograph from one of my favourite tennis players.

After the match we did some cooling down like showering, stretching and speaking with the media. Then I called my girlfriend, but we only had five minutes to talk because she was going to sleep soon. It was already close to midnight back home!

I got on the shuttle back to the hotel around 7:30 p.m. It was a tough match, so even in normal times I probably wouldn’t go too far from the hotel. I might have even brought some food back with me or ordered something from a delivery service so I wouldn’t have to move that much. I’d prefer to relax with some friends or go very, very close to the hotel to have some dinner.

Where I am staying there is space for us where we’re allowed to sit outside, which is a pretty nice place for us to have some food. I always go with one person to have dinner with them, but we keep distance between us for safety. This is the situation now and that’s okay, we have to deal with it.

After that I just relaxed a bit and watched some of the NBA playoffs. The Los Angeles Lakers were playing against the Portland Trailblazers. It was perfect. I wasn’t able to watch the whole thing because it was getting too late, but it was great to at least watch some of it. I love sports. Seeing the Champions League final on Sunday was great.

It’s a very different time right now, but I’m really happy tennis is back. I just want to thank everyone who is making it possible. I hope fans are able to enjoy watching it on TV. I think they all miss tennis, and I’ll be very happy when we’re able to see them in the stands again. I don’t know when that will happen, but I’m looking forward to it. I hope everyone enjoys my match today against David Goffin. Wish me luck!