By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Monday, August 26, 2024
Photograph credit score: Jeff Dean/US Open/USTA
NEW YORK—Followers had been winners in Flushing Meadows final week.
US Open Fan Week welcomed a document 216,029 followers to the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Heart during the last seven days.
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The largely-free Fan Week (there have been some ticketed stadium matches that required paid entry) noticed a rise of 37 p.c over 2023, the USTA introduced as we speak.
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That document attendance places the 2024 US Open on tempo to attain organizers’ pre-tournament aim of eclipsing 1 million followers for your entire three weeks of the US Open.
Fan Week 2024 stats issued by the USTA as we speak:
Over 2 million units accessed USOpen.org and the US Open app throughout Fan Week.
Tennis Storm, the Minigame Field PVP Fortnite sport created completely for the US Open, noticed 3.5 Million gamers and over 430,000 matches performed.
Fan Entry Cross reached practically 205,000 registrations and noticed upwards of 233,000 complete on-site engagements throughout Fan Week.
15,000 distinctive Marvel comedian books and 10,000 Wilson youth tennis racquets got away free of charge to followers.
Saturday’s Arthur Ashe Youngsters’ Day set an all-time attendance document of 47,875.
The US Open primary draw begins as we speak, Monday, August 26, and runs by way of Sunday, September 8.
