US Open 2025: When is the draw, how to watch on TV, Raducanu and Alcaraz doubles details
The US Open is fast approaching, with Flushing Meadows’ opening its hard courts to the world’s elite later this month.
This week’s Cincinnati Open will be the last chance for most players to fine-tune their preparations ahead of the grand-slam event, which has some changes this year.
Two-time former champion Venus Williams has been handed a wild card into the tournament at the age of 45. The seven-time grand slam winner made a comeback earlier this summer after more than a year out of the sport. She will become the oldest singles player to compete at Flushing Meadows since Renee Richards, aged 47 in 1981.
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- Draw details
- How to watch
- How to buy US Open tickets
- Prize money
- When do the US Open finals take place?
- New to 2025
- British players at the US Open
- Latest odds
When does the US Open start?
The singles draw will begin on Sunday, August 24. The tournament follows the Australian and French Open in becoming a 15-day competition. It means the men’s and women’s singles first rounds play out over the opening three days.
When is the US Open draw?
The singles draw will be announced on Thursday, August 21.
How to watch the US Open on TV and streaming in the UK
Sky Sports has the broadcasting rights to show the US Open live from Flushing Meadows.
Gigi Salmon is presenting the coverage alongside Tim Henman, Laura Robson, Martina Navratilova, Marion Bartoli, Karthi Gnanasegaram, Feliciano López, Naomi Cavaday and Jonathan Overend.
How to watch the US Open on TV in the US
ESPN has the broadcasting rights for the tournament for the 17th consecutive year. Its networks will showcase first-to-last-ball coverage, covering 170+ hours via ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC.
Where is the US Open held?
The home of the tournament is the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York.
How to buy US Open tickets
You can buy tickets here.
What is the US Open prize money?
American tennis chiefs have shocked the sport by announcing a 20 per cent increase in prize money at the US Open, which starts in New York in less than three weeks’ time. Despite a concerted campaign from leading players to squeeze more money out of the biggest tournaments, few had expected such a dramatic step-change.
In its announcement, the United States Tennis Association revealed that the total prize pot for the upcoming US Open will be $ 90,000,000 which equates to £67,390,000. The champions of the men’s and women’s singles event will each receive a hefty $ 5m, or £3.75m.
Such large sums threaten to make Wimbledon look underpowered. The most recent prize pot at SW19 stood at £53,500,000. The All England Club seemed satisfied with this figure, which represented a seven per cent increase on 2024’s sums. But they now find themselves fully 25 per cent behind their transatlantic rivals.
Men’s and women’s singles
- Winners: $ 5m
- Runners-up: $ 2.5m
- Semi-finalists: $ 1.26m
- Quarter-finalists: $ 660,000
- Fourth round: $ 400,000
- Third round: $ 237,000
- Second round: $ 154,000
- First round: $ 110,000
Men’s and women’s doubles
- Winners: $ 1m
- Runners-up: $ 500,000
- Semi-finalists: $ 250,000
- Quarter-finalists: $ 125,000
- Third round: $ 75,000
- Second round: $ 45,000
- First round: $ 30,000
Mixed doubles
- Winners: $ 1m
- Runners-up: $ 400,000
- Semi-finalists: $ 200,000
- Quarter-finalists: $ 100,000
- First round: $ 20,000
When do the US Open finals take place?
The women’s final takes place on Saturday, September 6, and the men’s final the following day.
New for 2025
Mixed doubles competition
Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz have been confirmed as wild-card entries in this year’s US Open mixed doubles event.
The knockout competition will take place before the main tournament on August 19 and 20, where $ 1m (£750,000) in prize money is at stake for the winners.
The event will consist of best-of-three-set matches, with short sets of up to four games and no-advantage in games that reach a score of deuce (40-all), meaning that the winner of the next point wins the game.
If the teams split sets, a 10-point match tie-break will be played instead of a third set. The first team to earn 10 points in the tie-break, with an advantage of two or more points, will win the match. The final will be a best-of-three-set match, with sets maxing out at six games.
The first and second round will be played on August 19, semi-final and final on August 20.
Raducanu and Alcaraz – who can expect to be given a portmanteau nickname of either “Alcaranu” or “Raducaraz” – are one of six teams to have received wild cards so far. Two further wild cards are due to be announced at a later date, taking the overall number of pairs competing to 16.
Eight of the 16 pairs have received direct entry into the draw, including Emma Navarro and Jannik Sinner along with Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud. Britain’s Jack Draper was in the main draw but his partner Paula Badosa withdrew through injury. Jessica Pegula and Tommy Paul, both of the United States, will play together in front of their home crowd.
The move to change the format was described by defending U.S. Open champions Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori as a “profound injustice” to doubles players, and Pegula, who is part of the WTA Player Council, said more communication was needed between organisers and players.
“I’m honoured that they asked me to play. It’s going to be great, it’s going to be fun and the fans will really enjoy it,” Pegula told reporters at the Cincinnati Open.
“At the same time, how they went about it, I didn’t think was really great … We were like, Okay, you guys went rogue and changed the format and didn’t tell anybody. You just did it.
“Did you talk to the players? Did you get their input about how it could be better? That’s something that we as players are trying to work with them on, having that line of communication be a lot smoother. I feel like maybe if there was feedback about the format, then the (reaction) would be a little different, not so all over the place.”
British players at the US Open
Men’s singles
Qualified automatically
Jack Draper
Cameron Norrie
Jacob Fearnley
Qualifying tournament
TBC
Women’s singles
Qualified automatically
Emma Raducanu
Katie Boulter
Sonay Kartal
Qualifying tournament
TBC
Who are the defending champions?
Jannik Sinner was too strong for Taylor Fritz in last year’s final, winning 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.
In the women’s showpiece, Aryna Sabalenka kept her nerve to defeat Jessica Pegula 7-5, 7-5.
Latest odds
Men’s title
- Jannik Sinner 11/10
- Carlos Alcaraz 2/1
- Novak Djokovic 14/1
- Jack Draper 20/1
Women’s title
- Aryna Sabalenka 11/4
- Iga Swiatek 7/2
- Coco Gauff 13/2
- Mirra Andreeva 10/1
