American Taylor Fritz confronted world No. 1 Jannik Sinner within the males’s closing on Sunday however was defeated. Within the girls’s closing on Saturday, Jessica Pegula, seeded sixth, misplaced to Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, who’s ranked second.
The presence of American gamers in each singles finals contributed to an 8 p.c improve in attendance from final 12 months’s file of 832,640 followers, in keeping with the USTA.Amongst these noticed on the males’s closing had been Taylor Swift, her boyfriend Travis Kelce, and his Kansas Metropolis Chiefs teammate Patrick Mahomes.
Fritz, seeded twelfth, grew to become the primary American man to succeed in the ultimate of the US Open since Andy Roddick was the runner-up in 2006.
He was additionally the primary American to succeed in the ultimate of any main since Roddick competed within the 2009 Wimbledon championship match.
Fritz expressed disappointment after his straight-sets defeat, stating, “I really feel just like the followers clearly, American followers, been wanting a males’s champion for a very long time, and … I am fairly upset with how I performed. I really feel like, I do not know, I really feel like I virtually let lots of people down.”
The 2024 U.S. Open sported a file $75 million prize pool. Each Sabalenka and Sinner earned $3.6 million for his or her respective titles.
