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Which US Open ticket is the best buy?

Four real ticket tiers, from a Grounds Pass to Arthur Ashe hospitality

The US Open sells four genuinely different products. A Grounds Admission pass gets you onto every court except Arthur Ashe — including Louis Armstrong and the Grandstand's general-admission sections. A reserved seat at Ashe or Armstrong is its own separate purchase, priced by session and day. Official hospitality sits above both.

Ticket types

Grounds Admission (GA) Pass Only

US$295

Access to every court except Arthur Ashe — outer courts, Louis Armstrong and Grandstand's GA sections, practice courts, and the full grounds. No reserved seat, first-come. The cheapest real way in.

Grandstand (Day session)

US$391-718

A reserved seat at the Grandstand court — smaller than Ashe or Armstrong, genuinely close to the action.

Arthur Ashe Stadium, Louis Armstrong Stadium (Day & Evening sessions)

US$185-2691

A reserved seat at one of the two show stadiums — price climbs steeply by day of the tournament and by session.

Hospitality

US$2371-23900

Official USTA Premier hospitality — three real tiers, The Blue Room, The Club, and Luxury Suites — see the Luxury Guide for the full breakdown.

Single-session prices from the most recently published US Open pricing. See the Cost Guide for the full trip breakdown, and the Luxury Guide for hospitality.

How to actually buy a ticket

Unlike Wimbledon or Roland-Garros, the US Open runs on a first-come-first-served sale, not a ballot — tickets go on sale in waves starting in the spring, with the main draw's best sessions selling out fastest. Buy only through usopen.org or Ticketmaster, the tournament's official resale partner — any other "resale" site is unverified and carries real risk of invalid tickets. Grounds Admission passes are sold for specific days and don't guarantee entry if the grounds reach capacity, so buy early in the day if you're flexible on dates.

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Arthur Ashe Stadium

Arthur Ashe Stadium

★4.7(3,327 Google reviews)

The world's largest tennis stadium — 23,771 seats, retractable roof, and night sessions unlike any other

Most sporting venues are defined by their history or their intimacy. Arthur Ashe Stadium is defined by its scale, and the scale is the point. There are 23,771 seats, and when they're full and the match on court is close, the noise the crowd produces is physical. You feel it.

Flushing Meadows

Worth knowing

  • —Book night session tickets before anything else in your US Open planning — they sell out months in advance and the atmosphere during a close match at 10pm is the defining US Open experience.
  • —Find your section early and check the replay screens at each end of the court — the crowd reaction to a Hawk-Eye challenge, collective tension building as the trajectory appears on screen, is one of the specific pleasures of this venue.
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Louis Armstrong Stadium

Louis Armstrong Stadium

★4.7(455 Google reviews)

The second show court — where upsets happen, where the atmosphere is closer, and where the interesting tennis plays out

Louis Armstrong Stadium is where you go to watch tennis rather than to watch an event. The distinction matters. Arthur Ashe at night is a spectacle — 23,771 people watching the sport's biggest names on the world's biggest stage. Armstrong is closer, tighter, and more likely to contain a match that's actually in doubt.

Flushing Meadows

Worth knowing

  • —Check the order of play the evening before (published ~7:30pm on the US Open app) — if a seed ranked 8–20 is scheduled on Armstrong, that's often a better match to watch than whoever is on Ashe that session.
  • —The roof closes automatically at 11pm or when weather requires it — evening sessions in Armstrong are worth staying late for; the change from natural to artificial light when the roof closes is one of the distinctive moments of the tournament.

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The real ticket tiers and prices are free above. Unlocking adds the exact combination we'd buy for a first US Open trip — why a Grounds Pass week plus one Ashe or Armstrong day beats a run of reserved-seat days, and why a day session gets you more actual tennis per dollar than a night session before the draw thins out.

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