The price of tickets for the US Open has had a vertical increase in recent days and this Friday, ten days before the start of the tournament, the cheapest ticket to attend the finals of September 11 costs more than 360 dollars .
The best seats in the Arthur Ashe for the day of the men’s and women’s finals cost more than $4,000, excluding taxes, and confirm the great expectation to attend this year’s tournament.
One of the factors that contributed to the increase in ticket requests for the US Open was the recent announcement of the withdrawal of the American Serena Williams, who suggested in a letter published by ‘Vogue’ magazine that she will leave tennis after this tournament. .
Her announcement, which arrived on August 9, has turned her last matches into an occasion for the American public to show the champion of 23 majors all their love and gratitude.
It was already seen this week in Cincinnati, where she was champion in 2014 and 2015, when Serena received a long ovation after losing in the first round against the British Emma Raducanu.
Getting a place at the Arthur Ashe, the center court of the US Open, in the first round costs at least 109 dollars on the official ticketing platform ‘Ticketmaster’.
Tickets for the women’s final, scheduled for September 11, currently cost an average of $1,289 and have risen vertically in recent days, according to data from the “CNBC” network.
The 2022 edition of the US Open will be particularly rich also in terms of prizes for players.
The United States Tennis Federation (USTA) reported that it will distribute more than 60 million dollars in prizes for the first time in its history, with an increase of 2.5 million dollars compared to last year.
The tournament champions in the men’s and women’s categories will win $2.6 million each, while the finalists will walk away with $1.3 million.
However, the most significant increase is registered in the prizes of the first rounds, which will be 80,000 dollars for the first of the main draw and 121,000 for the second.
These numbers improve respectively 85% and 57% the prizes that were distributed in 2016, according to data provided by the USTA. EFE
