Top 10 highlights of 2024 US Open: Djokovic aims for 25th place
On August 26, the last tennis Grand Slam event of the year, the 2024 US Open, will be re-ignited in New York. Djokovic and Zheng Qinwen will both embark on their first Grand Slam journey after winning the Olympic championship. In addition to the two, Alcaraz, Sinner and Medvedev are the most favored in the men's singles, while Zverev, Rublev, Rune and a group of American tough guys are also capable of blocking the way; in the women's singles, Swiatek, Sabalenka, Rybakina, Gauff and Pegula have the highest voices to win the championship, but facing the resurgent "Hundred Flowers Trend", these favorites to win the championship seem to have no absolute certainty. In short, this year's US Open is about to usher in an unprecedented open pattern. No matter who of the "old and new favorites" can laugh to the end, a large number of shocking records will inevitably be rewritten.
15 or 9
No one has defended the men's singles champion at the US Open for 15 consecutive years, and no one has defended the women's singles champion for 9 consecutive years. This year, Djokovic and Gauff are challenging the curse.
25
"25" is still the most anticipated number at this year's US Open. Serbian star Djokovic will strive to become the first player in the world to win 25 Grand Slam singles championship trophies - this is a monument that the tennis world is looking forward to, and it is also a miracle in the history of human sports!
100
Djokovic achieved the Golden Slam feat with his 99th championship in the Paris Olympics, proving that "Nine Nine Returns to One"; if the Serbian star can achieve the unprecedented "25" with the 100th championship in his career, it will be even more "perfect", and there is a sense of destiny in the dark.
3-1 or 2-2
Sinner won the Australian Open at the beginning of the year, and Akar won the French Open and Wimbledon later. It is almost certain that the two heroes born in the 2000s will join hands to dominate the men's tennis in the future, but now they have to settle the last Grand Slam championship trophy of the year in Flushing Meadows - in the hot list of men's singles champions at this year's US Open, Akar ranked first and Sinner ranked third.
3
In the public era, only Rod Laver in 1969 and Nadal in 2010 have won the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open in a row. Even Djokovic and Federer have not been able to unlock such achievements. Akar has the opportunity to become the "third person" at this year's US Open!
37 or 21
If Djokovic can successfully defend his title, he will break the 52-year-old record at the age of 37 years and 106 days, surpassing Rod Laver in 1972 and becoming the oldest Grand Slam singles champion in professional tennis; if Aka can win his second US Open title, he will also become the youngest five-time Grand Slam winner at the age of 21 years and 124 days, and his future is limitless.
90
As long as Djokovic can win two games in a row at this US Open, he will unlock the amazing record of 90 or 90+ wins in the four Grand Slams, and set up a "unique" sign.
75,000,000
As the saying goes, the food and grass are ready before the troops move, and there will be brave men under heavy rewards. The total prize money of the US Open this year has risen to a crazy 75 million US dollars, setting a new record in tennis. The singles champion can get 3.6 million US dollars, and the singles first round elimination will also earn 100,000 US dollars. It is really "rich and inhumane".