Written by Alberto Amalfi | @Itenisi_Manje | Monday, August 26, 2024
Photo credit: Jeff Dean/US Open/USTA
NEW YORK—Fans won 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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Non-Fan Week (there were ticketed stadium games requiring paid admission) increased 37 percent over 2023, the USTA announced today.
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That record puts the 2024 US Open on pace to achieve organizers' pre-tournament goal of surpassing one million fans across the three weeks of the US Open.
Fan Week 2024 statistics released by the USTA today:
More than 2 million devices accessed USOpen.org and the US Open app during Fan Week.
Tennis Storm, a Minigame Box PVP Fortnite game created exclusively for the US Open, has seen 3.5 million players and over 430,000 games played.
The Fan Access Pass reached nearly 205,000 sign-ups and saw more than 233,000 interactions on the site during Fan Week.
15,000 unique Marvel comic books and 10,000 new Wilson tennis rackets were given away for free to fans.
Saturday's Arthur Ashe Kids Day recorded an all-time attendance record of 47,875.
The US Open main draw begins today, Monday, August 26, and continues through Sunday, September 8.
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