Top-ranked men’s player Jannik Sinner is out with a knee injury, and Serena Williams, making her return to tennis this summer after a nearly four-year layoff, decided to compete in doubles but not singles at the U.S. Open. Still, whatever star power might be missing from the year’s final major, fans’ passion for tennis has not dimmed.

As the U.S. Open begins Sunday in Queens, New York, tickets prices are soaring. Last week, the get-in price for the first round was $197, according to TicketData.com, up 33% from ⁠2025, and seats for the women’s and ‌men’s ⁠finals were listed at an average of $534, a 19% increase. And as of Thursday, those numbers were even higher. A grounds pass for Sunday’s opening session started at $277 on SeatGeek—more than quadruple the $65 face value—and the cheapest listing for the men’s final on September 13 was $617.

Here are 17 other numbers to know about the 2026 U.S. Open.

The amount to be paid to the men’s and women’s singles champions at this year’s tournament.

The figure tops the record $5 million winner’s checks that were handed out at the 2025 U.S. Open and also beats the prize at the other three Grand Slams this year: Wimbledon’s $4.9 million, the French Open’s $3.3 million and the Australian Open’s $3 million (at the current exchange rates).

The prize for the winning mixed doubles team.

The U.S. Open ratcheted up the reward for the event in 2025, from $200,000 for the champion duo the prior year, in an effort to attract more top players and more interest. And it’s working: After only two highly ranked singles players participated in mixed doubles at the 2024 tournament, the star-studded 2025 edition drew 78,000 fans over two days, and this year’s event featured teams including Aryna Sabalenka and Novak Djokovic, married couple Gaël Monfils and Elina Svitolina, and Félix Auger-Aliassime and Filipino sensation Alexandra Eala, perhaps the WTA Tour’s brightest rising star. Czech pair Karolina Muchova and Jakub Mensik ultimately won the big prize on Wednesday, but the real draw in the bracket was the team of Carlos Alcaraz and Serena Williams, who was playing at Arthur Ashe Stadium for the first time since she bade her temporary farewell to tennis in 2022.

The total compensation being offered to players at this year’s U.S. Open.

The figure, up 20% from 2025’s $90 million and 44% from 2024’s $75 million, includes not only the purses for the singles, doubles, mixed doubles and wheelchair tennis competitions but also payments to players toward their air travel and........

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