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U.S. Open Tennis 2023
September 2 , 2023
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- The Former US Open champion Stan Wawrinka became the oldest man to win a match at the tournament since 40-year-old Jimmy Connors in 1992.
- The 50th anniversary of the U.S. Open becomes the first sporting event to offer equal prize money to female and male competitors celebrated recently.
- The 79-year-old tennis player Billie Jean King, as the defending U.S. Open champion in 1973 rallied her fellow women players to threaten a boycott of that year's tournament unless women got the same pay as men.
- It was announced that summer that the men's and women's U.S. Open champions would each receive $25,000.
- It would take 34 years before all the other Grand Slam events followed suit.
- This year the U.S. Open winners will each receive $3 million.
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