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In 2008, the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis will celebrate its 30th anniversary as the home of the us open new york Championships

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Place: Flushing Meadows, NY

Date: Aug. 25-Sept. 7, 2008

Draw Size: 128

Surface: Hard

Prize Money: US$7,950,000

Tournament Director: Jim Curley

2007 Singles Final

(1) Justine Henin (BEL) d.

(4) Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) 61 63

2007 Doubles Final

(7) Dechy/Safina (FRA/RUS) d.

(5) Chan/Chuang (TPE/TPE) 64 62

2007 Mixed Doubles Final

Azarenka/Mirnyi (BLR/BLR) d.

Shaughnessy/Paes (USA/IND) 64 76(6)

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2007

Federer Clinches Fourth us open new york Title: Roger Federer continued to write himself deeper in the history books, taking out Serbia's Novak Djokovic, 7-6(4), 7-6(2), 6-4 for the US Open singles title. Federer is also the first man to reach all four Grand Slam finals in a calendar year for two years in a row.

By virtue of his win on Sunday, Federer became the first man in the Open Era to capture four consecutive us open new york singles titles, and the first man in history to do so since Bill Tilden accomplished the feat between 1920 and 1923.

2008

Roger Federer extended his unbeaten streak on grass to 59 matches Sunday with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Philipp Kohlschreiber in the final of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany.The title was Federer’s 10th on grass, matching the Open-era record set by Pete Sampras. He has won the Gerry Weber Open five times and is 10-0 in finals on grass. Federer’s previous four Weber titles were followed by Wimbledon championships three weeks later.

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The US Open tennis tournament is chronologically the fourth and final event of the Grand Slam tennis tournaments. It is held annually in August and September over a two-week period (the weeks before and after Labor Day weekend). The main tournament consists of five championships: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, with additional tournaments for senior, junior, and wheelchair players. Since 1978, the tournament has been played on acrylic hard court at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the Queens borough of New York City. The complex was renamed after King during the 2006 US Open. King is a pioneer in women's tennis and the founder of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), the Women's Sports Foundation and World Team Tennis (WTT), which she founded with her former husband, Larry King.

The us open tennis originated from two separate tournaments: the men's tournament and the women's tournament. The event was first held in August 1881 and staged at the Newport Casino, Newport, Rhode Island (men's singles only). The championships were known as the U.S. National Singles Championship for men. Only clubs that were members of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association were permitted to enter. From 1884 until 1911 the tournament used a challenge system whereby the defending champion automatically qualified for the next year's final. The Newport Casino hosted the men's singles tournament until 1915 when it moved to the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills, New York. From 1921 until 1923 it was played at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia and returned to Forest Hills in 1924.

The us open tennis grew from an exclusive entertainment event for high society to a $17 million prize money championship (about $1.4 million for each of the winners of the singles tournaments) for over 600 male and female professional players.

The total prize money for the 2008 us open tennis is divided as follows:

Singles (Men & Women - 128 Draws)

Winners $1,400,000

Runners-Up $700,000

Semifinalists $300,000

Quarterfinalists $150,000

Round of 16 $75,000

Third Round $43,000

Second Round $27,500

First Round $17,500

Total $6,588,000 ($13,176,000)

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