If the stakes weren’t already excessive for the 2024 US Open, defending occasion champions Coco Gauff and Novak Djokovic headline a discipline that may play for a file $75 million in complete compensation on the last Grand Slam tennis event of the 12 months. The elevate is about 15% from the 2023 occasion and is the biggest purse in tennis historical past, in response to the USTA.
The total compensation places the US Open forward of tennis’s different three main championships in 2024. Based mostly on forex change charges on the instances of the occasions, Wimbledon supplied about $64 million in prizes, whereas the French Open and Australian Open supplied about $58 million apiece.
The 2024 US Open males’s and ladies’s singles champions will every obtain $3.6 million.
Listed below are extra key details to know in regards to the 2024 occasion.
When is the US Open?
It runs from Aug. 26 to Sept. 8.
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How can followers watch?
Followers can tune in on ESPN starting at midday ET on Aug. 26 and on the ESPN App by way of the ESPN streaming hub starting at 11 a.m. ET till the tip of play.
The ESPN App would be the all-in-one streaming residence for the US Open.
Throughout the ESPN App:
ESPN+ and ESPN3 will mix to stay stream all courts from first ball to final ball every day
ESPN+ can have all-day protection in English and Spanish
On the ESPN App for Apple TV and Xbox, ESPN has added expanded, One-Click on Multicast performance. The brand new function mechanically curates the highest stay occasions into one tile on the house display, permitting followers to pick watching as much as 4 simultaneous stay courtroom feeds of the US Open.
What’s the US Open championship schedule?
(all instances Japanese)
Combined doubles championship – Sept. 5 at 3 p.m. on ESPN2
Ladies’s doubles championship – Sept. 6 at midday on ESPN2
Males’s doubles championship – Sept. 7 at midday on ESPN3
Ladies’s singles championship – Sept. 7 at 4 p.m. on ESPN, ESPN+ and ESPN Deportes
Males’s singles championship – Sept. 8 at 2 p.m. on ABC*, ESPN+ and ESPN Deportes
* The US Open males’s championship preview particular airs on ABC at 1 p.m. ET. The lads’s championship will air on ABC for the primary time.
How can followers entry different tennis content material from ESPN?
Take a look at the ESPN tennis hub web page for breaking information, options, rankings, scores, schedules and extra.