2026 US Open Tennis Tickets: Where to Buy, Prices & Schedule
- Eight of the tournament’s 22 days have free grounds admission, not seven. The seven Fan Week days from 23 to 29 August are the well-known ones; the eighth is Open for All Day on Thursday 10 September, in the middle of the main draw. That one is daytime only — the women’s semi-finals that evening are a separately ticketed session.
- Free still needs a booking. A Fan Access Pass is required for everyone aged 18 and over during Fan Week, it is free, and every person needs their own distinct email address to register. One pass covers all seven days.
- The US Open does not publish ticket prices on its own site. Every buy button hands off to Ticketmaster, which is the named official partner. Its lowest advertised entry points, read on 11 August 2026, were $43 for Arthur Ashe, $65 for grounds admission, $139 for Louis Armstrong and $180 for the Grandstand.
- An Arthur Ashe ticket is the only one that gets you everywhere. In the tournament’s own words, Ashe tickets include access to all other courts, while other ticket types do not include entry to Ashe. Day and evening are always separate tickets.
- All ten multi-session ticket plans were showing sold out on 11 August 2026. Individual session tickets were still on sale.
The 2026 US Open runs from Sunday 23 August to Sunday 13 September at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, New York. Eight of those 22 days let you walk in without a ticket, which is the part most guides get half right.
Individual session tickets are on sale. All ten multi-session plans were sold out when we checked on 11 August 2026.
When is the 2026 US Open?
23 August to 13 September, split into a free opening week and a 15-day main draw.
| Phase | Dates |
|---|---|
| Fan Week | 23–29 Aug |
| Qualifying | 24–27 Aug |
| Main draw | 30 Aug – 13 Sep |
The tournament calls this its largest event schedule and most competition days in a near-150-year history. Worth being precise about what that means: 22 days, but 20 of them with competitive play. Friday 28 and Saturday 29 August carry no matches at all — that is practice, media day and grounds entertainment.
The growth over last year is entirely in the opening week. The 2025 tournament ran 21 days with a six-day Fan Week; 2026 runs 22 with a seven-day one. Both main draws are the same 15 days.
New for 2026 is a Qualifying Wildcard Challenge on Sunday 23 August, two matches on the outer courts whose winner takes a place in the qualifying draw itself.
One caution that comes from the tournament rather than from us: it states throughout that session dates, match counts, start times and gate openings are all subject to change. Eleven days out, that is not boilerplate.
Which days are free?
Eight of the 22 — the seven Fan Week days and one more in September, and all of them need a free pass or a plan.
| Free day | What is on |
|---|---|
| 23 Aug | Kids’ Day, wildcard matches |
| 24–27 Aug | Qualifying, Courts 4–17 |
| 28 Aug | Media day, no matches |
| 29 Aug | Practice, no matches |
| 10 Sep | Doubles semis, daytime |
The eighth day is the one almost nobody lists. In the tournament’s own words, grounds admission is free on Open for All Day on Thursday 10 September, “marking eight full days of free grounds admission during the 22 days of the US Open”.
Two conditions, and both matter enough to travel on.
A Fan Access Pass is required during Fan Week, and it is new for 2026. It is free, everyone aged 18 and over needs one, and it covers the whole week from 23 to 29 August. Get it through the US Open app or at fanpass.usopen.org and add it to a phone wallet. The trap for families and groups: each person needs a different valid email address. Under-18s do not need their own pass if they are with a registered adult, and you are asked to say how many you are bringing when you register.
10 September is free in the daytime only. The daytime programme is real tennis — men’s doubles semi-finals, wheelchair quarter- and semi-finals, junior quarter-finals. But the women’s singles semi-finals in Arthur Ashe that evening are a separately ticketed session, and it is the only ticket sold for that date. Turning up expecting the semi-finals for nothing is the mistake this section exists to prevent.
Free grounds admission also does not make everything on the grounds free. Three things during Fan Week need their own ticket: the Roger Federer exhibition on 25 August, Stars of the Open on 27 August, and the mixed doubles matches held in Arthur Ashe. The mixed doubles split that day is genuinely useful and easy to miss — on 25 August the matches in Louis Armstrong are free to attend, while the ones in Ashe are ticketed.
How much are 2026 US Open tickets?
The lowest advertised entry points are $43 for Arthur Ashe and $65 for the grounds — but the US Open does not publish prices itself.
Every buy button on usopen.org hands off to Ticketmaster, the named official partner, and the tournament’s own ticket feed carries no prices at all. So these are the partner’s figures, not the tournament’s, read on 11 August 2026:
| Venue | From, USD | Fees |
|---|---|---|
| Arthur Ashe | $43 | Not stated |
| Grounds | $65 | Not stated |
| Louis Armstrong | $139 | Not stated |
| Grandstand | $180 | Not stated |
Read that as a floor, not a price. Each figure is the minimum across a whole span of dates, and the spans differ: the Ashe range covers 25 August to 13 September, which includes the ticketed Fan Week events, so $43 may not describe a main-draw session at all. The others cover the main draw only.
On fees, that page says nothing either way, so neither do we. Ticketmaster has separately said its North American prices moved to an all-in display in May 2025, fees included and taxes excluded — useful context, not a check on these four numbers, since no checkout was reached.
The counter-intuitive bit is worth pausing on: the cheapest advertised way into the main stadium is lower than the cheapest way into either of the smaller show courts. That is a function of Arthur Ashe’s size and its upper tiers, not a bargain hiding in plain sight.
One puzzle that resolves cleanly. A $65 grounds pass and free grounds admission sound contradictory until you look at the dates — grounds passes are sold for 30 August to 8 September, which is entirely after Fan Week ends and entirely before 10 September. The two never overlap.
What does each ticket actually get you?
Only an Arthur Ashe ticket gets you everywhere, and day and evening are always separate.
| Ticket | Also admits you to |
|---|---|
| Arthur Ashe | All other courts |
| Louis Armstrong | Grandstand, field courts |
| Grandstand | Armstrong upper level |
| Grounds | Field courts only |
The tournament states the rule in one sentence: tickets for Arthur Ashe Stadium include access to all other courts, while other ticket types do not include entry to Arthur Ashe Stadium. Access to the other courts on an Ashe ticket is first-come, first-served, and it lasts for that session only.
Sessions are the unit, not days. The main draw is numbered 1 to 27 — fourteen day sessions and thirteen evening ones — and a day ticket does not admit you in the evening or the other way round. Reserved seating in Armstrong and the Grandstand applies to the lower concourse; upper levels are first-come.
A structural point that decides which dates are even possible: the venues stop selling on different days. The Grandstand’s last ticketed day is 5 September, Armstrong’s daytime run ends on 7 September and grounds passes stop on 8 September. From 9 September onwards, an Arthur Ashe seat is the only ticket that gets you in — with 10 September the exception, because the grounds are free that day.
Where can you buy tickets online?
Two official routes, one authorised resale channel, and everything else is an open marketplace the tournament does not stand behind.
| Route | Status |
|---|---|
| usopen.org | Official, hands to Ticketmaster |
| Ticketmaster | Official partner |
| Ticketmaster resale | Authorised, verified |
| Box office | Official, in person |
| Other marketplaces | Not official |
usopen.org and Ticketmaster are one inventory, not two. The tournament has no checkout of its own — every ticket link on its site points at Ticketmaster’s account manager. Ticketmaster’s status is stated on the USTA’s own pages, which call it the Official Fan Ticket Marketplace of the US Open.
Authorised resale runs through Ticketmaster too, described first-party as 100% verified resale from subscribers and other fans, with the seller setting the price. One caveat we cannot resolve: the tournament’s tickets page still carries older copy saying that marketplace “will be enabled in the coming months”, which reads oddly this close to the event. We could not confirm first-party whether it was open on 11 August.
On everything else, the USTA’s own line is the clearest thing to quote: the US Open and Ticketmaster are the only official outlets, and purchases made elsewhere are not guaranteed. StubHub, Vivid Seats, SeatGeek, Gametime, TickPick and viagogo all list the event. We are not ranking them and not recommending one.
| Marketplace | Lowest listing seen |
|---|---|
| Gametime | $39 |
| Vivid Seats | $35, one session |
| TickPick | $52, one session |
| StubHub | — could not check |
Those are asking prices on open marketplaces on 11 August 2026, not official prices, and each is the cheapest thing listed rather than a typical one. StubHub is a dash because it served this session prices in New Taiwan Dollars, which is not a figure any reader here would pay — the reason is in the verification panel rather than buried.
The box office at the National Tennis Center is the third official route, on the east side of the site near Parking Lot B. Its opening hours are not published anywhere we could find, including on the venue’s own listing, so check before travelling for that alone.
Two things about official hospitality. The tournament sells its own, under the US Open Premier name, and its 2026 partners page names no third-party travel or hospitality reseller at all — so any tour operator describing itself as official is not corroborated by the tournament.
When are the finals?
The women’s singles final is Saturday 12 September and the men’s is Sunday 13 September, both in the afternoon.
| Session | Date | Start, ET |
|---|---|---|
| Women’s semis | Thu 10 Sep | 7:00 pm |
| Men’s semis | Fri 11 Sep | 3:00 & 7:00 pm |
| Women’s final | Sat 12 Sep | 4:00 pm |
| Men’s final | Sun 13 Sep | 2:00 pm |
All times are US Eastern, as the tournament publishes them. Finals weekend has no evening sessions — 12 and 13 September are day-session only, and the last night session of the tournament is on Friday 11 September. The men’s semi-finals are split across two separately ticketed sessions on the same day, which is a real cost consideration if you wanted to see both.
Gates for the men’s final open at 11:00 a.m. with play from 2:00 p.m. The doubles finals sit in the daytime programmes on 11 and 12 September.
What this does not tell you
What any specific session costs, what you pay at checkout, or whether resale is a good idea.
There are no per-session face values in this article because we could not obtain them. Ticketmaster’s individual event pages refused automated access with an HTTP 401 and the browser was redirected away on every attempt, so the difference between a first-round ticket and a men’s final ticket — which is enormous — is not something this piece can quantify. The four figures above are venue floors, and anyone reading them as session prices will be badly wrong about the finals.
It does not tell you what you pay including fees, for the same reason: no checkout was reached, and the page carrying those four prices says nothing about whether they include fees.
It does not forecast anything. Prices eleven days out are one reading on one day, and this article deliberately carries no view on where they go — including the tournament’s own line on the subject, which we have left out precisely because it reads as a forecast.
And it does not tell you whether to buy, from whom, or when. The official routes are identified because the tournament identifies them; the open marketplaces are listed because they exist. Which of those is right for you is not something a guide can know.
Sources
Checked on 11 August 2026. A ticket price eleven days before a tournament is one reading on one day.
| Source | What it supports here |
|---|---|
| US Open — tickets | The 23 August to 13 September dates, the ticket taxonomy, that all ten multi-session plans are sold out, and that every buy route hands off to Ticketmaster |
| US Open — individual tickets | The venue on-sale windows, the session structure, and that grounds passes are sold 30 August to 8 September |
| US Open — Fan Week | The seven free Fan Week days, the Fan Access Pass requirement for over-18s, the one-email-per-person rule, Kids’ Day on 23 August, and which Fan Week events need a separate ticket |
| Fan Access Pass registration | That the pass is free, covers 23 to 29 August, and is delivered to a phone wallet |
| US Open — schedule of play | The phase dates, the qualifying window of 24 to 27 August, the session numbering, and the finals dates and start times in Eastern time |
| US Open — 2026 tournament announcement | The eight days of free grounds admission including 10 September, and the “largest event schedule and most competition days” wording |
| US Open — A to Z guide | What each ticket type admits you to, the mobile-only ticketing rule, and that there is no will call |
| Ticketmaster — US Open | The four “as low as” prices, the venue date ranges they apply to, and the absence of any fee wording beside them |
| Ticketmaster — all-in pricing | The May 2025 move to all-in displays in North America, used as context and not as a check on the four prices |
usopen.org is a JavaScript application that returns only a shell to a command-line request, so every page above was rendered in a browser and read from the page itself. Ticketmaster’s individual event pages returned HTTP 401 to every automated attempt, which is why no per-session price appears here. StubHub served this session New Taiwan Dollars and is excluded on that basis rather than omitted quietly.
How we verified this
Every usopen.org page in this article was read in a browser, because it cannot be read any other way. The tournament’s site is a JavaScript application that returns a roughly 4KB shell to a command-line request, with no ticket content in it. Anything quoted here came out of the rendered page. Ticketmaster’s individual event pages went further and refused with an HTTP 401, which is why this article gives no per-session face values — see the limits section.
The prices here are the official partner’s, not the tournament’s, and that distinction is the honest answer to “how much are tickets”. usopen.org publishes no prices anywhere; its own ticket data feed has an empty price field for all 22 days, and every buy button hands off to Ticketmaster. The four figures quoted are Ticketmaster’s own “as low as” wording for each venue, read on 11 August 2026. They are range minimums across a span of dates, not the price of any particular session.
On fees, the page is silent and so are we. Ticketmaster’s US Open landing page carries no fee wording beside those four numbers — not “including fees”, not “plus fees”. So they are labelled as a fee basis that is not stated rather than assumed either way. For context and not as a check of these numbers, Ticketmaster has said its North American displays moved to all-in pricing, fees included and taxes excluded, in May 2025. No checkout was reached, so nothing here is verified at the payment step.
🔴 StubHub served this session New Taiwan Dollars, so nothing from it appears here. Its structured data declared prices in TWD and its event links carried Taipei coordinates; its UK domain resolved this session to Taiwan as well. No figure from StubHub is published, converted or quietly omitted — it is in the table with the reason. For the same reason there is no price in pounds anywhere in this article: no seller would show this session a UK consumer price, and converting a dollar figure would be a fabrication with a currency symbol on it.
This article does not forecast prices and contains no advice to buy. The tournament’s own ticket FAQ carries a line about prices increasing in line with market value; it is first-party and we have still left it out, because printing it would be publishing a price forecast in someone else’s voice. Every figure here is one reading on one day, eleven days before play starts.
The “record” framing has been left to the organiser. The USTA describes 2026 as the largest event schedule and most competition days in the tournament’s near-150-year history. It does not use the word record about the day count, and neither do we. For scale rather than superlative: 2025 ran 21 days with a six-day Fan Week, 2026 runs 22 with a seven-day one. Both main draws are 15 days, so the growth is entirely in Fan Week.
Several dates on the tournament’s own site are wrong, and none of them are used here. One explainer puts the main draw’s start on 23 August when it is 30 August. A May press release dates the mixed doubles to Monday 24 August calling it a Tuesday, which is calendar-impossible. The individual-tickets date picker runs from 22 August, a day before the tournament, labels that Saturday as a Sunday, and omits 13 September entirely. Where pages disagree, this article follows the schedule of play and the gate-times listings.
One time is contradicted first-party and is therefore not printed. The Roger Federer exhibition on 25 August is given as 7:30 p.m. in one official article and 7:00 p.m. on two others. The event is listed here without a start time.
The header image is a hard court, which is the point of choosing it. It is not Flushing Meadows and it is not an official image — but the US Open is played on hard courts, and the first tennis photograph this search returned was red clay, which belongs to a different tournament entirely.
One thing is genuinely unstated and is written that way. Whether a Fan Access Pass is also needed for the free 10 September daytime is not addressed anywhere first-party — every statement of the requirement is scoped to Fan Week, and the pass’s stated validity ends on 29 August. Secondary coverage asserts one is needed. We say it is not stated rather than picking a side.