Reply To: NYC hotel: US Open Tennis

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degsy wrote:

Worth saying from a tennis perspective the US Open is a far better fan experience than Wimbledon – it’s so much easier to get tickets (which are generally cheaper), and then move around all the (non-show) courts once inside.

Would have to disagree with regards to the ticket prices at the US Open. There appears to be a policy where people can hold onto their same seats for the following year, thus they buy the complete 2 weeks and split them up for daily resale. I saw one Men’s Final ticket at a ‘reselling’ price of over $12.500. No doubt the semi final tickets were around the same price.

When I went in 2019 I bought a ticket for the first 5 sessions (2 1/2 days) which I thought at a reasonable price only to find I was in the ‘lap of the Gods’, bearing in mind the Arthur Ashe Stadium holds nearly 25,000 and ended up watching the big screen most of the time.

Free Grandstand seats in their number 3 court was good and free access to all lower numbered courts, plus partial access to their number 2 court.

But it is the reselling that gets me angry !

Try the Monte Carlo Masters in April, now they are reasonably priced