{"id":146665,"date":"2025-09-15T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/146665\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T22:35:08","slug":"us-open-tennis-tournament-breaks-attendance-record-again-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/146665\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open tennis tournament breaks attendance record again in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The 2025 U.S. Open hosted 1,144,562 fans at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center across its free-to-enter Fan Week and two weeks of main draw play, the USTA announced on Monday. That is a record for the tournament and a 9% bump from its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/09\/09\/us-open-attendance-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/09\/09\/us-open-attendance-record\/\">then-landmark 1,048,669 attendees<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">This is the fourth consecutive year the U.S. Open has set a new high watermark in three-week attendance, starting with its 888,044 attendees in 2022 (which broke its previous, pre-pandemic record of 853,227 in 2019). It hosted 957,387 fans across 20 days in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">In 2025, 239,307 of the U.S. Open\u2019s overall attendance came during Fan Week &#8212; another record and 9% year-over-year increase &#8212; while main-draw attendance broke 900,000 (905,255) for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The event drew plenty of eyes on the television front as well, with ESPN logging its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/11\/us-open-has-best-tourney-audience-since-serenas-final-run-in-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/11\/us-open-has-best-tourney-audience-since-serenas-final-run-in-2022\/\">best full-tournament viewership performance<\/a> across ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 (1.1M average viewers) since 2022. The men\u2019s final between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner (3.3M viewers) was ESPN\u2019s best in a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 U.S. Open hosted 1,144,562 fans at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center across its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593,35298],"class_list":["post-146665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-usta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}