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The United States Open Tennis Championship
Published or Updated August 28, 2018
Location: United States
Sport: Tennis
Level: Professional
Sport: Tennis
Level: Professional
Event Type: Individual/Team Championship
First Held: 1881
Next Up: 8/27/2018-9/9/2018
First Held: 1881
Next Up: 8/27/2018-9/9/2018
When and Where: every September in New York, NY
Said to be one of the oldest tennis tournaments in the world, the U.S. Open is the fourth and final event of pro tennis’ Grand Slam, the culmination of the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon.
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In 2009, Juan Martin del Potro defeated Roger Federer in the Men's Singles Finals in a monumental upset.
In 2009, after a two year injury-related retirement Kim Clijsters returned (calling it her ""second career"") to competitive Tennis and won the Women's Singles US Open Championship
In 2007, Roger Federer became the first in US Open history to record four consecutive Men's Singles titles. In 2008, he became the first to record five.
On August 25, 2003, Pete Sampras held a public retirement ceremony at the beginning of the 2003 US Open Tournament
The US Open is unique in that there are final set tiebreakers as opposed to a final set that continues until won by two games
Jimmy Connors is the only individual to have won the US Open on all three types of surfaces
In the modern tennis era (post-1967) Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras, and Roger Federer hold the record for most Men's Singles championships (each with 5).
In 2006, the US Open became the first of the Grand Slam tournaments to implement instant replay -- each player is given three challenges with one additional challenge during a tiebreaker.
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