The US Open, the ultimate Grand Slam of 2024, will get beneath manner from Monday August 26, completely stay on Sky Sports activities.
How and the place are you able to watch? What’s Sky Sports activities+?
The US Open correct runs from August 26 to September 9, with stay protection broadcast day by day on Sky Sports activities Tennis and any match obtainable through Sky Sports activities+.
Sky Sports activities+ is stay and already built-in into Sky TV, streaming service NOW and the Sky Sports activities app – giving Sky Sports activities prospects entry to over 50 per cent extra stay sport this yr at no further price.
Sky Sports activities+ might be discovered on linear channel quantity 410 for Sky Glass prospects, 412 for Sky Q prospects and 416 for purchasers within the Republic of Eire.
Or you possibly can head to the ‘Watch’ part on the Sky Sports activities app to entry all Sky Sports activities+ stay streams through the occasion centres.
Throughout Sky Sports activities’ channels, in addition to our digital and social channels, tennis followers can take pleasure in in depth protection of the ultimate Grand Slam of 2024, together with each the lads’s and ladies’s singles, alongside the respective doubles tournaments, blended doubles, juniors, and wheelchair competitions.
Our protection shall be fronted by Gigi Salmon, with an all-star line-up of tennis specialists becoming a member of, together with Tim Henman, Laura Robson, Martina Navratilova, Feliciano Lopez, Anne Keothavong and Marion Bartoli… with contributions too from Liam Broady, Jamie Murray and Annabel Croft over the fortnight.
Reporters Karthi Gnanasegaram and Emma Paton, together with lead commentators Jonathan Overend and Naomi Cavaday, will even be on website at Flushing Meadows.
There shall be a day by day stay textual content commentary on the Sky Sports activities web site and app, in addition to stay scores, experiences, evaluation, options and movies.
US Open schedule – stay on Sky Sports activities
All timing listed as BST
- Monday, August 26 – Males’s & Girls’s singles 1st spherical, stay on Sky Sports activities Tennis & Major Occasion from 3pm
- Tuesday, August 27 – Males’s & Girls’s singles 1st spherical, stay on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm
- Wednesday, August 28 – Males’s & Girls’s singles 2nd spherical, stay on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm
- Thursday, August 29 – Males’s & Girls’s singles 2nd spherical, stay on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm & Major Occasion from 6.30pm
- Friday, August 30 – Males’s & Girls’s singles third spherical, stay on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm & Major Occasion from midnight
- Saturday, August 31 – Males’s & Girls’s singles third spherical, stay on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm & Major Occasion from midnight
- Sunday, September 1 – Males’s & Girls’s singles 4th spherical, stay on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm & Major Occasion from 11pm
- Monday, September 2 – Males’s & Girls’s singles 4th spherical, stay on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm & Major Occasion from 7pm
- Tuesday, September 3 – Males’s & Girls’s singles quarter-finals, stay on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm & Major Occasion from 9.15pm
- Wednesday, September 4 – Males’s & Girls’s singles quarter-finals, stay on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 3.30pm & Major Occasion from 9.15pm
- Thursday, September 5 – Girls’s singles semi-finals, stay on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 5pm
- Friday, September 6 – Males’s singles semi-finals, stay on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 5pm & Major Occasion from 10.15pm
- Saturday, September 7 – Girls’s singles ultimate, stay on Sky Sports activities Tennis from 5pm & Major Occasion from 8pm
- Sunday, September 8 – Males’s singles ultimate, stay on Sky Sports activities Tennis & Major Occasion from 7pm
What Brits are in motion at Flushing Meadows?
A bunch of Brits are set to compete on this yr’s important draw, together with 2021 winner Emma Raducanu and present British No 1s Katie Boulter and Jack Draper.
Draper shall be flying the flag within the males’s singles, alongside Dan Evans, with Cameron Norrie having withdrawn from the event as a result of harm.
It is also the primary post-Andy Murray slam for the British male contingent, with the three-time Grand Slam champion having retired from the game after the Paris 2024 Olympics, following a close to twenty years on the high of the sport.
Raducanu will as soon as once more be a giant draw at Flushing Meadows, the 2021 champion having missed final yr’s event due after having surgical procedure on her two damaged wrists and left ankle.
The 21-year-old is now again to someplace close to her greatest kind, having climbed again into the world’s high 100 off the again of a fourth-round run at Wimbledon.
Dan Evans and Harriet Dart are additionally entered into the lads’s and ladies’s important singles draw, whereas a heap of different British hopes battled it out to try to come by means of qualifying.
Two-time reigning males’s wheelchair singles champion Alfie Hewett returns to the court docket that noticed him topped a four-time US Open winner, trying so as to add a tenth Grand Slam title to his carry tally.
In the meantime, British doubles star Joe Salisbury could have his sights on making it 4 in a row on the US Open as he and America’s Rajeev Ram as soon as once more look to retain their males’s doubles crown.
Who’re the opposite massive names in motion?
The ultimate Grand Slam of the yr is well-timed because the battle between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz within the males’s recreation intensifies.
Djokovic misplaced out to the Spaniard handily within the Wimbledon ultimate final month, however arrives at Flushing Meadows recent from lastly securing the Olympic gold medal that had so eluded him thus far.
Djokovic gained revenge on Alcaraz in Paris, placing in a surprising efficiency to triumph in straight units and clinch the ‘golden slam’ – simply the fifth participant to take action, following Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi, Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams.
The 37-year-old Serb now chases but extra historical past with a twenty fifth Grand Slam success on the US Open, which might see him break his present tie on 24 with Australia’s Margaret Courtroom.
Or will it once more be the flip of the younger challengers to his throne, with world No 1 Jannik Sinner trying so as to add to his Australian Open crown from earlier within the yr and Alcaraz eyeing a fifth slam at simply 21 years previous.
Within the girls’s recreation, world No 1 Iga Swiatek shall be seeking to go one higher than Alcaraz and safe a sixth slam success, and second in New York.
She heads the ladies’s discipline, although defending champion Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina will all be within the shake up too, whereas may Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova spring one other shock?
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