# 2023 US Open (tennis)
The 2023 US Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the [USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center](https://www.edgepedia.org/usta-billie-jean-king-national-tennis-center) in Flushing Meadows, New York, from August 28 to September 10, 2023. It was the fourth and final Grand Slam of the season. [Novak Djokovic](https://www.edgepedia.org/novak-djokovic) won the men's singles title for his 24th Grand Slam trophy, and [Coco Gauff](https://www.edgepedia.org/coco-gauff) won the women's singles title for her first, while the tournament set attendance records for a Grand Slam event.[1](https://www.wtatennis.com/news/3647805/us-open-2023-draws-dates-prize-money-and-what-you-need-to-know) • [2](https://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/articles/2023-09-10/novak_djokovic_wins_24th_grand_slam_singles_title_at_2023_us_open.html) • [3](https://www.usopen.org/amp/en_US/news/articles/2023-08-31/2023_us_open_continues_to_smash_attendance_records.html)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Dates and site | August 28 to September 10, 2023, on outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows, New York[1](https://www.wtatennis.com/news/3647805/us-open-2023-draws-dates-prize-money-and-what-you-need-to-know) |
| Men's singles champion | Novak Djokovic, who beat Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 7-6(5), 6-3 for his 24th Grand Slam singles title, tying Margaret Court's all-time record[2](https://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/articles/2023-09-10/novak_djokovic_wins_24th_grand_slam_singles_title_at_2023_us_open.html) |
| Women's singles champion | Coco Gauff, 19, who beat Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 for her first Grand Slam title[4](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/66748930) |
| Prize money | A record $65 million in total player compensation; each singles champion received $3 million[5](https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/pdf/20230809_1691533957-877.pdf) |
| Attendance | 957,387 fans over the three-week event, the first Grand Slam to exceed 950,000; main-draw attendance was a US Open record 799,402[3](https://www.usopen.org/amp/en_US/news/articles/2023-08-31/2023_us_open_continues_to_smash_attendance_records.html) |
| Draw sizes | 128-player singles draws, 64-team doubles draws, and a 32-team mixed doubles draw[1](https://www.wtatennis.com/news/3647805/us-open-2023-draws-dates-prize-money-and-what-you-need-to-know) |
| Officiating | Hawk-Eye Live electronic line calling on all courts, with no line judges, a system in place since 2021[6](https://apnews.com/article/6d0b6bcd279148b0baa4a2fc08e52dac) |
## Tournament format and venue
The tournament used a 128-player singles draw, a 64-player doubles draw, and a 32-team mixed doubles draw, with the Wilson US Open Extra Duty ball. All singles, doubles, and mixed doubles matches were played in a best-of-three tiebreak-sets format. If the third set of a singles or doubles match reached 6-6, a 10-point tiebreak was played, and in mixed doubles a 10-point tiebreaker was played in lieu of a third set.[1](https://www.wtatennis.com/news/3647805/us-open-2023-draws-dates-prize-money-and-what-you-need-to-know) The venue has hosted the tournament since 1978 and contains three stadiums, including [Arthur Ashe Stadium](https://www.edgepedia.org/arthur-ashe-stadium), which holds 23,200 fans.[7](https://www.wtatennis.com/tournaments/905/new_york/2023)
**Officiating.** The US Open has had no line judges, with only chair umpires on court, since 2021, using Hawk-Eye Live electronic line calling on all courts; the automated system judges whether a ball lands in or out.[6](https://apnews.com/article/6d0b6bcd279148b0baa4a2fc08e52dac)
## Prize money
Total prize money and player compensation reached a record $65 million, an amount boosted by increases in the expenses covered, and the prize money based on results was about $60 million, the most at any Grand Slam tournament that year. Both singles champions received $3 million.[5](https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/pdf/20230809_1691533957-877.pdf) The 2023 edition marked the 50th anniversary of the US Open becoming the first sporting event to pay female and male champions equally, which it did in 1973.[5](https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/pdf/20230809_1691533957-877.pdf) • [8](https://apnews.com/article/8c03a17bfdc44bb571d5021c0affeb39) In the women's event, the champion earned 2,000 ranking points and $3,000,000, with the finalist receiving 1,300 points and $1,500,000 and first-round losers $81,500.[1](https://www.wtatennis.com/news/3647805/us-open-2023-draws-dates-prize-money-and-what-you-need-to-know)
## Men's singles
Reigning champion [Carlos Alcaraz](https://www.edgepedia.org/carlos-alcaraz) and three-time winner Novak Djokovic led the men's field, with Djokovic seeking revenge for his 2023 Wimbledon final loss to Alcaraz and arriving after a title in [Cincinnati](https://www.edgepedia.org/cincinnati).[9](https://www.atptour.com/en/news/us-open-2023-history-draw-schedule) • [10](https://www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/us-open/usa/2023/m-sl-usa-01a-2023/media-and-resources/) In the semifinals, third-seeded Medvedev defeated top-seeded Alcaraz 7-6(3), 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, while Djokovic advanced past ninth-seeded [Taylor Fritz](https://www.edgepedia.org/taylor-fritz) 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.[11](https://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/draws/2023_MS_draw.pdf) • [12](https://apnews.com/article/023ae6a92eaf2f2384bdabe17d19c68a)
In the final, the 36-year-old Djokovic beat Medvedev 6-3, 7-6(5), 6-3 to win his fourth US Open title and 24th Grand Slam singles title, tying [Margaret Court](https://www.edgepedia.org/margaret-court)'s record for the most singles majors won by a tennis player in history.[2](https://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/articles/2023-09-10/novak_djokovic_wins_24th_grand_slam_singles_title_at_2023_us_open.html) • [13](https://time.com/6312532/novak-djokovic-wins-us-open-2023/) The second set alone took 104 minutes and went to a tiebreak, with Djokovic winning 21 of 23 points at the net in that set.[13](https://time.com/6312532/novak-djokovic-wins-us-open-2023/) At 36, he became the oldest US Open champion in the Open Era.[14](https://www.atptour.com/-/media/756a191ba89e414594c4091ace672d2f.pdf) The victory also returned him to the world No. 1 ranking.[15](https://www.si.com/tennis/2023/09/11/50-parting-thoughts-us-open-2023-novak-djokovic-coco-gauff-carlos-alcaraz)
## Women's singles
Defending champion Iga Swiatek, the world No. 1, entered as the top seed, with [Aryna Sabalenka](https://www.edgepedia.org/aryna-sabalenka) seeded second; the No. 1 ranking was in play between them for the third consecutive Slam.[1](https://www.wtatennis.com/news/3647805/us-open-2023-draws-dates-prize-money-and-what-you-need-to-know)
In the final on Saturday, September 9, Gauff, seeded sixth, came back to beat the second-seeded Sabalenka, the incoming world No. 1 and that year's [Australian Open](https://www.edgepedia.org/australian-open) champion, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, taking her maiden Grand Slam title two weeks before her 20th birthday.[4](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/66748930) • [16](https://time.com/6312450/coco-gauff-win-us-open-2023/) In the deciding set she hit five winners against just two errors.[17](https://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/articles/2023-09-09/coco_gauff_wins_first_grand_slam_title_2023_us_open_day_13_in_review.html) The final fell on the 50th anniversary celebration of the US Open's equal prize money milestone.[17](https://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/articles/2023-09-09/coco_gauff_wins_first_grand_slam_title_2023_us_open_day_13_in_review.html) In the girls' singles, American wild card Katherine Hui beat ninth-seeded Czech Tereza Valentova 6-4, 6-4, becoming the first American girls' champion since Robin Montgomery in 2021.[17](https://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/articles/2023-09-09/coco_gauff_wins_first_grand_slam_title_2023_us_open_day_13_in_review.html)
## American storylines
The tournament featured a strong American contingent on both tours. In the men's quarterfinals, 20-year-old unseeded [Ben Shelton](https://www.edgepedia.org/ben-shelton) beat No. 10 seed [Frances Tiafoe](https://www.edgepedia.org/frances-tiafoe) 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(7), 6-2 at night in the first Grand Slam quarterfinal between two African-American men in the Open era, sending Shelton to his first Grand Slam semifinal, where he faced Djokovic.[12](https://apnews.com/article/023ae6a92eaf2f2384bdabe17d19c68a) On the women's side, [Jessica Pegula](https://www.edgepedia.org/jessica-pegula) and Gauff arrived with momentum after Pegula won Montreal and Gauff took Washington, D.C. and Cincinnati, the first time Americans had swept the North American hard-court summer in tour history.[1](https://www.wtatennis.com/news/3647805/us-open-2023-draws-dates-prize-money-and-what-you-need-to-know)
## Attendance records
The 2023 US Open set an all-time Grand Slam attendance record, becoming the first Grand Slam to welcome more than 950,000 spectators over a three-week period, with 957,387 fans across the 20 days of main draw and Fan Week, a nearly 8 percent increase over 2022.[3](https://www.usopen.org/amp/en_US/news/articles/2023-08-31/2023_us_open_continues_to_smash_attendance_records.html) Main-draw attendance was a US Open record 799,402, with sellouts in all 25 sessions of Arthur Ashe Stadium for the second year in a row. On Day 3 the tournament passed 73,000 in single-day attendance for the first time, as 73,007 fans came through the gates. The men's championship session drew 28,804 and the women's 28,143, both the highest-attended championship sessions in US Open history, and Fan Week brought more than 150,000 fans, up 41 percent from 2022's then-record 111,924.[3](https://www.usopen.org/amp/en_US/news/articles/2023-08-31/2023_us_open_continues_to_smash_attendance_records.html)
## Other events
In the US Open Wheelchair Championships, the doubles titles decided on Saturday, September 9 went to Stephane Houdet and Takashi Sanada, Niels Vink and Sam Schroder, and Yui Kamiji and Kgothatso Montjane in the respective pro divisions.[18](https://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/articles/2023-09-09/wheelchair_doubles_champions_crowned_at_2023_us_open.html) In men's doubles, [Rajeev Ram](https://www.edgepedia.org/rajeev-ram) and [Joe Salisbury](https://www.edgepedia.org/joe-salisbury) won the title.[2](https://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/articles/2023-09-10/novak_djokovic_wins_24th_grand_slam_singles_title_at_2023_us_open.html)
## References
1. [US Open 2023: Draws, Dates, History & All You Need To Know, ATP Tour](https://www.atptour.com/en/news/us-open-2023-history-draw-schedule)
2. [Novak Djokovic wins 24th Grand Slam singles title at 2023 US Open, USOpen.org](https://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/articles/2023-09-10/novak_djokovic_wins_24th_grand_slam_singles_title_at_2023_us_open.html)
3. [2023 US Open sets all-time Grand Slam attendance record, USOpen.org](https://www.usopen.org/amp/en_US/news/articles/2023-08-31/2023_us_open_continues_to_smash_attendance_records.html)
4. [US Open 2023 final: How Coco Gauff fulfilled her potential in New York, BBC Sport](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/66748930)
5. [The Peninsula Qatar, August 9, 2023 (US Open prize money)](https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/pdf/20230809_1691533957-877.pdf)
6. [Wimbledon tennis tournament replaces line judges with technology, AP News](https://apnews.com/article/6d0b6bcd279148b0baa4a2fc08e52dac)
7. [US Open 2023 Overview, WTA Official](https://www.wtatennis.com/tournaments/905/new_york/2023)
8. [Presidents Biden, Obama, Clinton congratulate Coco Gauff on her US Open tennis title, AP News](https://apnews.com/article/8c03a17bfdc44bb571d5021c0affeb39)
9. [US Open 2023: Draws, dates, prize money and what you need to know, WTA Tennis](https://www.wtatennis.com/news/3647805/us-open-2023-draws-dates-prize-money-and-what-you-need-to-know)
10. [US Open 2023 Tennis Tournament, ITF](https://www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/us-open/usa/2023/m-sl-usa-01a-2023/media-and-resources/)
11. [US Open 2023 Men's Singles draw, USOpen.org](https://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/draws/2023_MS_draw.pdf)
12. [Coco Gauff reaches her first US Open semifinal at 19. Ben Shelton gets to his first at 20, AP News](https://apnews.com/article/023ae6a92eaf2f2384bdabe17d19c68a)
13. [In Winning His 24th Grand Slam Singles Title, Novak Djokovic Is Now The Good Guy, TIME](https://time.com/6312532/novak-djokovic-wins-us-open-2023/)
14. [2025 US Open Day 10 Media Notes, ATP Tour](https://www.atptour.com/-/media/756a191ba89e414594c4091ace672d2f.pdf)
15. [50 Parting Thoughts From the 2023 U.S. Open, SI](https://www.si.com/tennis/2023/09/11/50-parting-thoughts-us-open-2023-novak-djokovic-coco-gauff-carlos-alcaraz)
16. [With U.S. Open Win, Coco Gauff Declares Herself the Future of U.S. Tennis, TIME](https://time.com/6312450/coco-gauff-win-us-open-2023/)
17. [Coco Gauff wins first Grand Slam title: 2023 US Open Day 13 in review, USOpen.org](https://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/articles/2023-09-09/coco_gauff_wins_first_grand_slam_title_2023_us_open_day_13_in_review.html)
18. [Wheelchair doubles champions crowned at 2023 US Open, USOpen.org](https://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/articles/2023-09-09/wheelchair_doubles_champions_crowned_at_2023_us_open.html)
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