{"id":845780,"date":"2026-08-06T16:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845780\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:22:10","slug":"anisimova-kostyuk-join-us-open-stars-of-open-exhibition-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845780\/","title":{"rendered":"Anisimova, Kostyuk Join US Open Stars of Open Exhibition \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Anisimova and Marta Kostyuk will square off in US Open exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Thursday, August 6, 2026<br \/>Photo credit: Ishika Samant\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>US Open Fan Week just got a big boost from fan favorites.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Anisimova, the 2025 US Open finalist, Madrid champion Marta Kostyuk, and rising men\u2019s stars\u00a0Arthur Fils\u00a0and\u00a0Alex Michelsen\u00a0will complete the roster of players taking to the court for the Stars of the Open exhibition event.<\/p>\n<p>The US Open exhibition event is set for Thursday, August 27th, at 6 p.m. inside Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/610X150-Slide_PRO-PLAYER7-13-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68391\" style=\"width:730px;height:auto\"  data-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The four players join Washington, DC Champion\u00a0Alex Eala, Joao Fonseca, Iva Jovic\u00a0and\u00a0Learner Tien\u00a0for the fan-favorite exhibition night. The exhibition will feature four, one-set matches, in the following order:<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Anisimova\u00a0vs.\u00a0Marta Kostyuk<br \/>Joao Fonseca\u00a0vs.\u00a0Learner Tien<br \/>Alex Eala\u00a0vs.\u00a0Iva Jovic<br \/>Arthur Fils\u00a0vs.\u00a0Alex Michelsen<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"adslot inline-ad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\/womens-racquets?utm_source=tennisnow&amp;utm_medium=article_ad&amp;utm_campaign=inarticle_racquets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tennis Express<\/p>\n<p>Grass-Court RacquetsThe frames the pros swing<\/p>\n<p>Shop racquets \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stars of the Open will be televised on ESPN+ in the U.S., and distributed by US Open international broadcasters (to be announced).<\/p>\n<p>A portion of the proceeds of Stars will benefit the USTA Foundation, the national charitable arm of the USTA. The Foundation supports the National Junior Tennis and Learning (NJTL) network, a nationwide group of more than 270 organizations that use tennis to help young people from under-resourced communities succeed in life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Richard Pagliaro. Richard Pagliaro is Tennis Now Managing Editor. He is a graduate of New York University and has covered pro tennis for more than 35 years. Richard was tennis columnist for Gannett Newspapers in NY, served as Managing Editor for TennisWeek.com and worked as a writer\/editor for Tennis.com. He has been TennisNow.com managing editor since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda Anisimova and Marta Kostyuk will square off in US Open exhibition. By Richard Pagliaro | Thursday, August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-845780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}