US Open 2024 tennis live updates: Day 1 latest as Novak Djokovic and Coco Gauff start their campaigns today

Follow live action from the first day at Flushing Meadows, where Novak Djokovic takes on Radu Albot and Coco Gauff plays Varvara Gracheva

US Open 2024 latest
Play to start at 11am EDT, 4pm BST
Coco Gauff in action against Varvara Gracheva on Arthur Ashe Stadium
Novak Djokovic plays Radu Albot in today’s final match on same court
Analysis of this year’s draw ahead of ‘wide open’ tournament

21 years since an American man won a Grand Slam

U.S. tennis, particularly on the men’s side, has been going through something of a lean patch in recent years.

The statistic that perhaps best highlights that is that there has not been an American winner of the men’s US Open title since Andy Roddick all the way back in 2003. For reference, Ben Shelton was less than a year old when that happened!

In fact, that is the last time an American man won a Grand Slam at all. That triumph in 2003 meant a U.S. man had won seven of the last 11 titles at Flushing Meadows after the dominance of Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi.

There are four U.S. men among the seeds at the US Open this year — Fritz (12), Shelton (13), Korda (16) and Tiafoe (20) — but it would be considered a major upset if any of them were to lift the trophy at the end of the fortnight.