A record US Open

Coco Gauff, seen here at the US Open in 2022, has reached her first US Open semifinal and could become the third American teenager to win the women’s singles title at the US Open in the Open Era, after Tracy Austin and Serena Williams. Photograph by https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeglo/52390109632/ .

As the 143rd US Open moves through the quarterfinals, Wettfreunde.net has collected all the potential records that could be broken at this year”™s tournament. To highlight a few, men”™s world number two Novak Djokovic, who will play American Ben Shelton in the semifinals on Friday, Sept. 8, could break his tie with Serena Williams for the most Slam titles won in the Open Era (23 titles) ”“ going on to tie Margaret Court Smith, who has 24 ”“ and he could also become the oldest player (at 36) to win a men”™s singles title.  (The Open Era began in 1968 when the Grand Slam tournaments ”“ the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, also called the majors ”“ allowed professionals to compete with amateur players.) In any event, Djokovic will return to the number one ranking after the US Open.

Current men”™s world number one Carlos Alcaraz, who is playing Germany”™s Alexander Zverev tonight ”“ Wednesday, Sept. 6 — could become the first player to win more than one US Open title before age 21.

Here are other potential records that could be set:

For the men:

  • Novak Djokovic (Serbia) and Richard Gasquet (France) made their 72nd main draw appearance in a Grand Slam at the 2023 US Open, which extended their record for the second most main draw appearances in Grand Slams in the Open Era. (Switzerland”™s Roger Federer and Spain”™s Feliciano Lopez are tied for the first place with 81 appearances each.) 
  • Djokovic could extend his record for the most appearances in the US Open Men”™s Singles finals. At the moment, he has appeared a record-breaking nine times.
  • He could also become the first player of the Open Era to reach 10 singles finals in multiple Grand Slam events. In January, he reached his 10th Australian Open final (and won), and he could reach his 10th final in this year”™s US Open.
  • With his quarterfinal win over American Taylor Fritz, Djokovic is poised to break his tie with Federer for the most semifinals appearances in the four Grand Slam tournaments (46 appearances). The win over Fritz has also given him a record 250 wins over top 10 players. 
  • Djokovic could extend his record for the most men”™s singles matches wins at the US Open in the Open Era for an active player. (Currently, he has 86 wins. The overall record is held by American Jimmy Connors, who had 98 wins.) 
  • He could become the third male player in the Open Era to win the Australian, French and US opens in a calendar year after Rod Laver (1968, Australia) and Mats Wilander (1988, Sweden).  
  • Djokovic could break his tie with Federer and become the sole holder of the record for the male player with the most Grand Slam tournament wins in a calendar year. (Both have achieved this feat 3 times.) 
  • He could break the record for the oldest male player to win the men”™s singles at the US Open in the Open Era. (The record is currently held by Australian Ken Rosewall, who was 35 years and 315 days old at the time of his win.) 
  • Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) could become the youngest male player in the Open Era to win multiple titles on clay, grass and hard court in a calendar year, and only the fifth player to do so after Connors (1974), John McEnroe (USA, 1984), Federer (2004) and Rafael Nadal (Spain, 2008). 

For the women:

  • Venus Williams (USA) has broken the record for the most main draw appearances at the US Open in the Open Era (among men and women), marking her 24th appearance in its main draw. 
  • Belarus”™ Aryna Sabalenka, who will be in one of the women”™s semifinal matches Thursday, Sept. 7, at 8:15 p.m. ”“ opponent to be determined — could become the second female player since 2000 to win the Australian Open and US  Open title in the same year, after Angelique Kerber did so in 2016.  
  • Coco Gauff (USA), who will play the Czech Republic”™s Karolina Muchová at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, in the other semifinal match, could become the third American teenager to win the women’s singles at the US Open in the Open Era, after Tracy Austin and Serena Williams. (Austin won in 1979 and ”˜81: Williams in 1999. As a side note, American Monica Seles was still representing the former Yugoslavia when she won in ”™91 and ”™92.)
  • In the Open Era, Americans have never failed to win the women”™s singles championship in a six-year span. So if no American wins this year, that would make it a first. (The last time the United States went five years without an American woman winning was  2003 to ”™07.)

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