US Open 2026: Dates, Defending Champions, Field

The 2026 US Open singles main draw runs August 30 through September 13 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York — the 146th edition and the year's final Grand Slam.^[1]

Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka are the defending champions. Alcaraz — who beat Jannik Sinner in the 2025 final — returns after missing the French Open and Wimbledon with a wrist injury, per Yahoo's entry-list report. Sabalenka chases a third straight title, a feat last managed by Serena Williams (2012-2014).^[1]

Yahoo's report adds that all three of 2026's women's major winners are entered — Elena Rybakina (Australian Open), Mirra Andreeva (Roland Garros) and Linda Noskova (Wimbledon) — plus former champions Gauff, Swiatek, Osaka and Raducanu. The U.S. leads all countries with 28 main-draw entrants.^[1]

A $90 million figure circulates widely for this tournament, but that is the 2025 total. The WTA states $108 million in player compensation for 2026, describing it as a 20% increase from $90 million in 2025. Anyone quoting $90m for the 2026 edition is a year behind.^[1][3]

Two governing bodies give different 2026 numbers, and both are right — they measure different things. The WTA figure of $108 million is player compensation; the LTA lists a total prize pool of $101 million, with $5,500,000 to each singles champion. Compensation is the broader envelope, so the larger number is not a correction of the smaller one.^[3][4]

The WTA gives the main draw beginning August 30; the LTA describes the event as running 23 August to 13 September. The earlier date takes in qualifying and the opening week's surrounding schedule, the later one is when the main draw itself starts. Both appear in coverage without the distinction being stated.^[3][4]

The finals are the fixed points: women's singles Saturday 12 September, men's singles Sunday 13 September, at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Laykold hard courts.^[3][4]

The tournament finished in mid-September 2026. As of 2026-09-24 this page records the following results, each taken from a Lawn Tennis Association report dated 12 September 2026: Neal Skupski and Christian Harrison won the men's doubles, beating Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz; Alfie Hewett beat world No.1 Tokito Oda 6-0, 7-6(5) for the men's wheelchair singles title, his fifth at the US Open; and Hewett with Gordon Reid won a sixth US Open men's wheelchair doubles title.^[5][6]

These results all come from one organisation, the LTA, and the LTA's results page describes itself as a round-up of "the British tennis players competing at the US Open 2026". Its coverage is therefore scoped to British players, which is why the able-bodied singles finals are not covered there. No second, independent organisation is cited for these three results on this page.^[7]

The 2026 men's and women's singles champions are not stated on this page, because they could not be verified from the sources cited here. The WTA page in the sources is a pre-tournament preview that still describes both singles finals in the future tense. The LTA landing page does carry a line reading "Women's singles: Aryna Sabalenka / Men's singles: Carlos Alcaraz" — but that list sits under the heading "Who won the US Open in 2025?", and the match detail printed beside it is the 2024 final. It is a list of earlier champions, not the 2026 result, and those names are not repeated here as 2026 winners. The singles results will be added once an official source reporting them can be opened directly.^[4]

For that reason this page is kept open rather than closed even though the event has ended: closing it now would freeze it with its main results missing. The prize-money and schedule figures elsewhere on this page are pre-tournament figures as published by the WTA and the LTA, stated as of their publication dates.^[4]