U.S. Open Fan Week Sets Records

August 28, 2023 | By Press Release
Photo Credit: David Nemec/USTA

US Open Fan Week welcomed 157,985 fans to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center over the last six days, a record for Fan Week and an increase of 41 percent over 2022.

Among the highlights of the six-day, free tennis and entertainment festival on the US Open grounds:

  • More than 12,000 Wilson youth tennis racquets were given away for free to fans
  • The upper levels of Arthur Ashe Stadium were opened to accommodate crowds watching player practices for the first time
  • Wednesday’s Stars of the Open event, played to a capacity crowd in Louis Armstrong Stadium, raised $320,000 for the Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund
  • Saturday’s Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day set an all-time attendance record of 40,868

The US Open main draw begins on Monday and runs through Sunday, September 10.

 


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