By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Monday, August 26, 2024
Photo: Jeff Dean/US Open/USTA
NEW YORK—The fans were winners at Flushing Meadows last week.
US Open Fan Week welcomed a record 216,029 fans to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center over the past seven days.
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The largely free fan week (there have been some ticketed stadium games that required paid admission) saw a 37 percent increase through 2023, the USTA announced today.
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This record attendance puts the 2024 US Open on pace to meet organizers’ pre-tournament goal of eclipsing 1 million fans for all three weeks of the US Open.
Fan Week 2024 statistics released by the USTA today:
Over 2 million devices accessed USOpen.org and the US Open app during Fan Week.
Tennis Storm, the PVP Fortnite Minigame Box created exclusively for the US Open, saw 3.5 million players and over 430,000 matches played.
Fan Access Pass achieved nearly 205,000 registrations and saw over 233,000 total engagements on site during Fan Week.
15,000 unique Marvel comic books and 10,000 Wilson Youth Tennis Rackets were given away for free to fans.
Saturday’s Arthur Ashe Kids Day set an all-time attendance record of 47,875.
The US Open main draw begins today, Monday, August 26 and runs through Sunday, September 8.
