NEW YORK — Former participant Eric Butorac will substitute Canada’s Stacey Allaster because the US Open’s event director, the U.S. Tennis Affiliation introduced Monday.
Butorac has been the USTA’s senior director of gamers relations and enterprise improvement and was the event director for this 12 months’s new combined doubles occasion on the U.S. Open.
“That is, in some ways, a dream come true and the fruits of my life and profession in tennis,” Butorac stated.
He was knowledgeable tennis participant for 14 years, reached the highest 20 within the ATP doubles rankings and was a doubles finalist on the 2014 Australian Open.
Butorac additionally was the ATP participant council president.
He joined the USTA in 2016 and was the event director of the Cincinnati Open in 2022.
“Eric has been instrumental in strengthening the U.S. Open expertise for each gamers and followers, and his management, perception and keenness for the sport make him the perfect particular person to information the subsequent chapter of the event’s success,” stated Brian Vahaly, interim co-CEO of the USTA.
Allaster, of Windsor, Ont., grew to become the U.S. Open event director in 2020, the primary lady to carry that place within the historical past of a event first held in 1881. She has labored on the USTA since 2016 and earlier than that was the chairman and CEO of the WTA ladies’s skilled tennis tour.
Allaster will stay in her job because the USTA’s chief government of skilled tennis till Might, earlier than shifting to an advisory position with the group.
