# 2017 US Open (tennis)

The 2017 US Open was the 137th edition of tennis' US Open and the fourth and final Grand Slam event of the year. It was held on outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City. Experimental rules featured in qualifying for the main draw as well as in the junior, wheelchair and exhibition events.
Stan Wawrinka and Angelique Kerber were the previous year's men's and women's singles champions. Neither managed to defend their title as Wawrinka withdrew before the start of the tournament due to a knee injury that ended his season, while Kerber lost in the first round to Naomi Osaka.
The men's singles tournament concluded with Rafael Nadal defeating Kevin Anderson in the final, while the women's singles tournament concluded with Sloane Stephens defeating Madison Keys in the final.

## Tournament

The 2017 US Open was the 137th edition of the tournament and took place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park of Queens in New York City, New York, United States. The tournament was held on 15 DecoTurf hard courts.
The tournament was an event run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the 2017 ATP World Tour and the 2017 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as a mixed doubles event. There were also singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which were part of the Grade A category of tournaments. Additionally, there were singles and doubles wheelchair tennis events for men, women and quads.
The 2017 tournament saw the USTA try out two experimental rules. Firstly, the USTA introduced a shot clock to combat slow play and to address players going over the allotted time for warm ups and medical time outs. Secondly, coaching was allowed from the side of the court. Whilst a player was at the same end as their box they could verbally communicate, if they were at the opposite end then sign language would be allowed. This meant that coaching incidents involving Victoria Azarenka and Caroline Garcia at Wimbledon would have been allowed. The rules only applied in qualifying matches for the main draw, junior, wheelchair and legends matches.
The tournament was played on hard courts and took place over a series of 15 courts with DecoTurf surface, including the two existing main showcourts – Arthur Ashe Stadium and the new Grandstand. Louis Armstrong Stadium, one of the main stadiums used in the previous tournament, was demolished after the 2016 tournament and was replaced for the 2017 edition by a temporary stadium located next to parking lot B near the construction of the previous Louis Armstrong Stadium site.

## Broadcast

In the United States, the 2017 US Open will be the third year in a row under an 11-year, $825 million contract with ESPN, in which the broadcaster holds exclusive rights to the entire tournament and the US Open Series. This means that the tournament is not available on broadcast television. This also makes ESPN the exclusive U.S. broadcaster for three of the four tennis majors. In Australia, SBS won the rights to broadcast the US Open with the free to air coverage starting from the quarter finals.

### Américas

* Latin America: ESPN
* Argentina: ESPN and TyC Sports
* Brazil: ESPN and SporTV
* Paraguay: ESPN and Tigo Sports
* Uruguay: ESPN and VTV [es]

## Point and prize money distribution
### Point distribution

Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event.

#### Senior

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Round of 128 | Q | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Men's singles | 2000 | 1200 | 720 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 45 | 10 | 25 | 16 | 8 | 0 |
| Men's doubles | 2000 | 1200 | 720 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Women's singles | 2000 | 1300 | 780 | 430 | 240 | 130 | 70 | 10 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 2 |
| Women's doubles | 2000 | 1300 | 780 | 430 | 240 | 130 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — |

### Prize money

The total prize-money compensation for the 2017 US Open is $50.4 million, a 3.7% increase on the same total last year. Of that total, a record $3.7 million goes to both the men's and women's singles champions, which is increased to 7.5 percent from last year. This made the US Open the most lucrative and highest paying tennis grand slam in the world, leapfrogging Wimbledon in total prize money fund. Prize money for the US Open qualifying tournament is also up 49.2 percent, to $2.9 million. The total prize money for the wheelchair tennis events was $200,000.
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Round of 128 | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | $3,700,000 | $1,825,000 | $920,000 | $470,000 | $253,625 | $144,000 | $86,000 | $50,000 | $16,350 | $10,900 | $5,606 |
| Doubles | $675,000 | $340,000 | $160,000 | $82,000 | $44,000 | $26,500 | $16,500 | — | — | — | — |
| Mixed doubles | $150,000 | $70,000 | $30,000 | $15,000 | $10,000 | $5,000 | — | — | — | — | — |

## Singles players
### Men's singles

| Champion | Champion | Runner-up | Runner-up |
| Rafael Nadal [1] | Rafael Nadal [1] | Kevin Anderson [28] | Kevin Anderson [28] |
| Semifinals out ||||
| Juan Martín del Potro [24] | Juan Martín del Potro [24] | Pablo Carreño Busta [12] | Pablo Carreño Busta [12] |
| Quarterfinals out ||||
| Andrey Rublev | Roger Federer [3] | Sam Querrey [17] | Diego Schwartzman [29] |
| 4th round out ||||
| Alexandr Dolgopolov | David Goffin [9] | Philipp Kohlschreiber [33] | Dominic Thiem [6] |
| Mischa Zverev [23] | Paolo Lorenzi | Denis Shapovalov (Q) | Lucas Pouille [16] |
| 3rd round out ||||
| Leonardo Mayer (LL) | Viktor Troicki | Gaël Monfils [18] | Damir Džumhur |
| Feliciano López [31] | John Millman (PR) | Roberto Bautista Agut [11] | Adrian Mannarino [30] |
| Radu Albot (Q) | John Isner [10] | Thomas Fabbiano | Borna Ćorić |
| Kyle Edmund | Nicolas Mahut (Q) | Mikhail Kukushkin (Q) | Marin Čilić [5] |
| 2nd round out ||||
| Taro Daniel | Yūichi Sugita | Stefano Travaglia (Q) | Tomáš Berdych [15] |
| Guido Pella | Donald Young | Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (Q) | Grigor Dimitrov [7] |
| Mikhail Youzhny | Fernando Verdasco | Santiago Giraldo | Malek Jaziri |
| Dustin Brown | Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras (Q) | Bjorn Fratangelo (WC) | Taylor Fritz (WC) |
| Dudi Sela | Lu Yen-hsun | Benoît Paire | Chung Hyeon |
| Jordan Thompson | Gilles Müller [19] | Ernests Gulbis (PR) | Alexander Zverev [4] |
| Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [8] | Steve Johnson | Albert Ramos Viñolas [20] | Cameron Norrie (Q) |
| Jared Donaldson | Evgeny Donskoy | Janko Tipsarević | Florian Mayer |
| 1st round out ||||
| Dušan Lajović | Tommy Paul (WC) | Geoffrey Blancaneaux (WC) | Richard Gasquet [26] |
| Fabio Fognini [22] | Norbert Gombos | Jan-Lennard Struff | Ryan Harrison |
| Julien Benneteau | Steve Darcis | Maximilian Marterer (Q) | Jérémy Chardy |
| Pablo Cuevas [27] | Nicolás Kicker | Aljaž Bedene | Václav Šafránek (Q) |
| Frances Tiafoe | Blaž Kavčič | Vasek Pospisil | Andrey Kuznetsov |
| Tim Smyczek (Q) | Vincent Millot (Q) | Thiago Monteiro | Nick Kyrgios [14] |
| Andreas Seppi | Thomaz Bellucci | Patrick Kypson (WC) | Henri Laaksonen |
| Ričardas Berankis (PR) | Ivo Karlović | Marcos Baghdatis | Alex de Minaur (WC) |
| Gilles Simon | Christopher Eubanks (WC) | Ernesto Escobedo | Karen Khachanov [25] |
| Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (WC) | Lukáš Lacko (LL) | Horacio Zeballos | Pierre-Hugues Herbert |
| Jack Sock [13] | John-Patrick Smith (Q) | João Sousa | Bernard Tomic |
| JC Aragone (Q) | Alessandro Giannessi | Jiří Veselý | Darian King (Q) |
| Marius Copil | Daniil Medvedev | Nicolás Almagro | Robin Haase [32] |
| Denis Istomin | Márton Fucsovics | Dmitry Tursunov (PR) | Evan King (Q) |
| Ruben Bemelmans | Nikoloz Basilashvili | Andreas Haider-Maurer (PR) | David Ferrer [21] |
| Carlos Berlocq | Thanasi Kokkinakis (PR) | Rogério Dutra Silva | Tennys Sandgren |

### Women's singles

| Champion | Champion | Runner-up | Runner-up |
| Sloane Stephens (PR) | Sloane Stephens (PR) | Madison Keys [15] | Madison Keys [15] |
| Semifinals out ||||
| CoCo Vandeweghe [20] | CoCo Vandeweghe [20] | Venus Williams [9] | Venus Williams [9] |
| Quarterfinals out ||||
| Karolína Plíšková [1] | Kaia Kanepi (Q) | Petra Kvitová [13] | Anastasija Sevastova [16] |
| 4th round out ||||
| Jennifer Brady | Lucie Šafářová | Elina Svitolina [4] | Daria Kasatkina |
| Carla Suárez Navarro | Garbiñe Muguruza [3] | Julia Görges [30] | Maria Sharapova (WC) |
| 3rd round out ||||
| Zhang Shuai [27] | Monica Niculescu | Agnieszka Radwańska [10] | Kurumi Nara |
| Shelby Rogers | Elena Vesnina [17] | Jeļena Ostapenko [12] | Naomi Osaka |
| Ekaterina Makarova | Maria Sakkari | Caroline Garcia [18] | Magdaléna Rybáriková [31] |
| Aleksandra Krunić | Ashleigh Barty | Donna Vekić | Sofia Kenin (WC) |
| 2nd round out ||||
| Nicole Gibbs (Q) | Risa Ozaki | Barbora Strýcová [23] | Ana Bogdan |
| Yulia Putintseva | Ons Jabeur | Nao Hibino | Svetlana Kuznetsova [8] |
| Evgeniya Rodina | Daria Gavrilova [25] | Kirsten Flipkens | Tatjana Maria |
| Sorana Cîrstea | Christina McHale | Yanina Wickmayer | Denisa Allertová |
| Caroline Wozniacki [5] | Mirjana Lučić-Baroni [29] | Arina Rodionova (WC) | Océane Dodin |
| Alizé Cornet | Ekaterina Alexandrova | Kristýna Plíšková | Duan Yingying |
| Ajla Tomljanović (PR) | Zheng Saisai | Aliaksandra Sasnovich | Dominika Cibulková [11] |
| Kateryna Kozlova (Q) | Peng Shuai [22] | Sachia Vickery (Q) | Tímea Babos |
| 1st round out ||||
| Magda Linette | Verónica Cepede Royg | Danielle Lao (Q) | Sabine Lisicki (PR) |
| Misaki Doi | Andrea Petkovic | Taylor Townsend (WC) | Kristina Mladenovic [14] |
| Petra Martić | Sofya Zhuk (Q) | Brienne Minor (WC) | Alison Riske |
| Anett Kontaveit [26] | Catherine Bellis | Sara Sorribes Tormo | Markéta Vondroušová |
| Kateřina Siniaková | Eugenie Bouchard | Kayla Day (WC) | Allie Kiick (Q) |
| Anna Blinkova (Q) | Madison Brengle | Ashley Kratzer (WC) | Elise Mertens |
| Lara Arruabarrena | Lesley Kerkhove (Q) | Wang Qiang | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [19] |
| Lesia Tsurenko [28] | Francesca Schiavone | Rebecca Peterson (Q) | Angelique Kerber [6] |
| Mihaela Buzărnescu (Q) | Mona Barthel | İpek Soylu (Q) | Monica Puig |
| Kiki Bertens [24] | Richèl Hogenkamp | Pauline Parmentier | Viktória Kužmová (Q) |
| Jelena Janković | Heather Watson | Anna Zaja (Q) | Tereza Martincová (Q) |
| Camila Giorgi | Misa Eguchi (PR) | Claire Liu (Q) | Varvara Lepchenko |
| Johanna Konta [7] | Johanna Larsson | Alison Van Uytvanck | Annika Beck |
| Ana Konjuh [21] | Julia Boserup | Roberta Vinci | Jana Čepelová |
| Carina Witthöft | Irina-Camelia Begu | Beatriz Haddad Maia | Amandine Hesse (WC) |
| Lauren Davis [32] | Natalia Vikhlyantseva | Viktorija Golubic | Simona Halep [2] |

## Doubles seeds
### Mixed doubles

| Team | Team | Rank$^1$ | Seed |
| Martina Hingis | Jamie Murray | 11 | 1 |
| Sania Mirza | Ivan Dodig | 19 | 2 |
| Chan Hao-ching | Michael Venus | 24 | 3 |
| Tímea Babos | Bruno Soares | 26 | 4 |
| Casey Dellacqua | Rajeev Ram | 27 | 5 |
| Andrea Hlaváčková | Édouard Roger-Vasselin | 38 | 6 |
| Gabriela Dabrowski | Rohan Bopanna | 39 | 7 |
| Lucie Hradecká | Marcin Matkowski | 45 | 8 |
$^1$Rankings as of August 21, 2017.

## Events
### Men's singles

* Rafael Nadal def. Kevin Anderson, 6–3, 6–3, 6–4

### Women's singles

* Sloane Stephens def. Madison Keys, 6–3, 6–0

### Men's doubles

* Jean-Julien Rojer / Horia Tecău def. Feliciano López / Marc López, 6–4, 6–3

### Women's doubles

* Chan Yung-jan / Martina Hingis def. Lucie Hradecká / Kateřina Siniaková, 6–3, 6–2

### Mixed doubles

* Martina Hingis / Jamie Murray def. Chan Hao-ching / Michael Venus, 6–1, 4–6, [10–8]

### Junior boys' singles

* Wu Yibing def. Axel Geller, 6–4, 6–4

### Junior girls' singles

* Amanda Anisimova def. Coco Gauff, 6–0, 6–2

### Junior boys' doubles

* Hsu Yu-hsiou / Wu Yibing def. Toru Horie / Yuta Shimizu, 6–4, 5–7, [11–9]

### Junior girls' doubles

* Olga Danilović / Marta Kostyuk def. Lea Bošković / Wang Xiyu, 6–1, 7–5

### Men's champions doubles

* John McEnroe / Patrick McEnroe def. Pat Cash / Henri Leconte, 6–2, 6–4

### Women's champions doubles

* Kim Clijsters / Martina Navratilova def. Lindsay Davenport / Mary Joe Fernández, 4–6, 6–2, [10–4]

### Wheelchair men's singles

* Stéphane Houdet def. Alfie Hewett, 6–2, 4–6, 6–3

### Wheelchair women's singles

* Yui Kamiji def. Diede de Groot, 7–5, 6–2

### Wheelchair quad singles

* David Wagner def. Andrew Lapthorne, 7–5, 3–6, 6–4

### Wheelchair men's doubles

* Alfie Hewett / Gordon Reid def. Stéphane Houdet / Nicolas Peifer, 7–5, 6–4

### Wheelchair women's doubles

* Marjolein Buis / Diede de Groot def. Dana Mathewson / Aniek van Koot, 6–4, 6–3

### Wheelchair quad doubles

* Andrew Lapthorne / David Wagner def. Dylan Alcott / Bryan Barten, 7–5, 6–2

## Wild card entries

The following players were given wildcards to the main draw based on internal selection and recent performances.

### Mixed doubles

* Kristie Ahn / Tennys Sandgren
* Amanda Anisimova / Christian Harrison
* Jennifer Brady / Bjorn Fratangelo
* Louisa Chirico / Bradley Klahn
* Liezel Huber / Danny Thomas
* Sofia Kenin / Michael Mmoh
* Jamie Loeb / Mitchell Krueger
* Nicole Melichar / Jackson Withrow