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the us open tennis

The US Open tennis tournament is chronologically the fourth and final event of the Grand Slam tennis tournaments.

Men's doubles was played in conjunction with men's singles at the Newport Casino for the first seven years, 1881-86, before it began moving to various sites. In fact, the five major events of the U.S. National Championships/ US Open have been played at nine different sites throughout their histories, including the USTA National Tennis Center. Men's doubles has been played at eight of those sites.

The U.S. Mixed Doubles Championship officially began in 1892 and was played in conjunction with the women's singles and doubles until 1921. Starting in 1921, mixed doubles was combined with the men's doubles program of the U.S. National Championships.

the us open tennis is preceded by the other three majors - the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon, but unlike the other events, the US Open has introduced a final set tiebreak. In the other Grand Slam events the fifth set (men) and the third set (women) continue until one player wins by two games.

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Over the past seven years the women's the us open tennis singles event has seen a diverse selection of winners including both the Williams' sisters, Russians, Maria Sharapova and Svetlana Kuznetsova and Belgians, Kim Clijsters and the current defending champion, and world number one, Justine Henin.

In recent years, current world number one, Roger Federer has claimed the the us open tennis men's singles title as his own. He has won four back-to-back US Open crowns, and in the process dispatched Lleyton Hewitt, Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick and lastly, Novak Djokovic.

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