The U.S. Open, a grand slam tennis tournament which features some of the greatest tennis players in the world like Carlos Alcaraz on the men’s side and Iga Świątek on the women’s side, begins on Monday, August 28, 2023 (8/28/23) with the first round of the competition at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York.
NEW YORK — Carlos Alcaraz wishes he could go a little more unnoticed as he tries to move around the home of the U.S. Open.
They will have to wait one more day to watch him. Alcaraz isn’t on the schedule Monday for the first day of play, when top-ranked Iga Swiatek opens her title defense in the afternoon and both 19-year-old Coco Gauff and Djokovic play at night. His victory over Casper Ruud made Alcaraz the first teenager to win the U.S. Open men’s title since Pete Sampras in 1990. Sampras, though, didn’t immediately shoot to stardom, not with John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors still around and Andre Agassi having already burst onto the scene.
But he’s clearly enjoying it. He played a point with NBA star Jimmy Butler during a charity event to raise money for humanitarian relief in Ukraine, then on Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day booted a goal with an oversized tennis ball and teamed with Swiatek to win a soccer volleyball point. That’s led Alcaraz to a tour-high 53 wins this season and six titles, including a second major trophy when he edged Djokovic at Wimbledon. He is coming off a loss, though, beaten by Djokovic in a Cincinnati final that went three sets and nearly four hours.
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