Where to Buy 2026 US Open Tennis Tickets: Prices, Sessions & Official Resale

Fan Week is free, running now, and the paid tournament has not started yet. The 2026 US Open runs 23 August to 13 September 2026 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing, New York. Grounds access from 23 to 29 August 2026 costs nothing beyond a free Fan Access Pass; the main draw opens with the first round on 30 August.

The part most guides get wrong is where official resale lives. It is not a separate website — it sits on the same Ticketmaster page as the original tickets.

Where do you actually buy 2026 US Open tickets?

From Ticketmaster, which the tournament names as its official ticketing partner. Every ticketed session and event routes through it, and its US Open pages carry the “Official Ticketing Partner” label in their own title.

That matters because the US Open is a high-demand event with a large secondary market around it. The distinction worth holding on to is between Ticketmaster’s own listings — including its resale — and third-party resellers, which are a different thing and do not appear on this page.

What is official resale, and how is it different?

It is Ticketmaster’s Verified Resale, and it appears in the same list as standard tickets. Open a session and you see rows marked Standard Ticket and rows marked Verified Resale Ticket, priced independently, in one checkout.

There is no separate official resale site to find, no waiting list, and no need to go anywhere else. If a session shows only resale rows, that means the original allocation is gone and what remains is resold through the official channel.

Is official resale cheaper than buying normally?

Sometimes, and on the session we checked it was — but not for the same seat. On the Men’s/Women’s First Round on 30 August, the featured standard listings were $766.00 in sections 111, 114 and 123, Row J. Verified Resale listings on the same page started at $349.50, in section 314, Row V.

That is a real gap and it is also not a like-for-like comparison: the cheaper listings are upper-tier seats and the featured ones are lower bowl. The useful conclusion is narrower than “resale is cheaper” — it is that you should read both halves of the same page before assuming the official price is the low one.

The mechanism behind that gap is worth knowing. Standard listings are priced by the tournament and its partner; Verified Resale listings are priced by whoever is reselling, and a seller who paid earlier in the cycle can undercut a late-release standard price without losing money. That works both ways, and at a sold-out session it usually works the other way. The point is that neither channel is reliably the cheaper one, so the comparison has to be made per session rather than assumed.

What do 2026 US Open ticket prices include?

Fees, before taxes. Ticketmaster’s event pages carry the line “Prices include fees (before taxes).” above the listings, so the number beside a seat is close to what you pay.

The event pages also state that tickets are subject to applicable service charges and that all sales are final. Those two statements sit together and are worth reading as a pair: all-in display does not mean refundable.

What are the session types?

Sessions are sold by stadium rather than by match, which is the single most useful thing to understand before buying. A ticket buys you a reserved seat in one stadium plus general admission access to smaller courts — not a specific player. The table shows which stadiums sell a day session, an evening session, or both.

Grandstand is the exception worth noting: it has no ticketed evening sessions at all. A Grounds Pass gives general admission to the grounds and the smaller courts but no reserved seat in Arthur Ashe.

What each one actually includes is where the money goes. An Arthur Ashe day session is a reserved seat in Ashe for all its day matches plus first-come, first-served access to the general admission areas of Louis Armstrong, Grandstand and the field courts — so it is the only ticket that lets you leave the big stadium and still sit somewhere. A Louis Armstrong day session reserves a seat there and gives you Grandstand and the field courts, but not Ashe. A Grandstand day session reserves Grandstand and gives you Armstrong and the field courts.

The evening tickets are narrower. An Ashe or Armstrong evening session reserves your seat in that stadium for its evening matches and nothing else; the general-admission add-on that comes with the day tickets is not part of them. A Grounds Pass evening session is general admission only, and the tournament notes that which stadiums are active in the evening varies by day, so it is worth checking the schedule of play before buying one.

Which days are free?

23 to 29 August 2026, with a Fan Access Pass. Grounds admission during Fan Week costs nothing, and the pass itself is free. This is the cheapest way into the site and it covers a week of practice and qualifying-week atmosphere rather than main-draw matches.

The pass has conditions that catch people out. When we read the tournament’s own site on 11 August, a Fan Access Pass was required for everyone aged 18 and over during Fan Week, it was free, and every person needed their own distinct email address — so a family cannot register four passes against one inbox. Those rules were first-party then and may have been adjusted since; the pass itself is still what the ticketing partner points to.

Fan Week is not entirely free of ticketed events, though. Three sit inside it: the US Open Mixed Doubles Championship on 25 and 26 August, the Roger Federer exhibition on 25 August, 7:00 PM in Arthur Ashe, and Stars of the Open on 27 August, 6:00 PM, featuring Joao Fonseca, Alexandra Eala, Learner Tien, Iva Jovic.

What did the Federer session look like?

Entirely resale. Every listing visible on the 25 August 2026, 7:00 PM exhibition was a Verified Resale Ticket, starting at $137.14. No standard tickets remained.

That is what a sold-out official allocation looks like on Ticketmaster, and it is a useful pattern to recognise: a page showing only Verified Resale rows is not a page where the box office still has stock.

What else is on sale beyond the tennis?

A finals afterparty, and hospitality. The US Open Finals Afterparty runs on 12 September 2026, 9:00 PM ET at Louis Armstrong Stadium, after the Women’s Singles Final, with Zedd with Honeyluv.

Beyond that, the US Open Premier hospitality tier covers luxury suites seating 22 to 35, and clubs including The Overlook and The Blue Room. Those are sold as inquiries and packages rather than as seats, and they are priced accordingly.

If you are deciding between all of this on a budget, the order is straightforward. Fan Week costs nothing and is happening now. A Grounds Pass is the cheapest way into a main-draw day. A reserved seat in Armstrong or Grandstand costs less than Ashe and comes with access to more of the site. And whichever you choose, check the Verified Resale rows on the same page before you buy the standard one.