US Open (tennis) US$25,000 each. Beginning in 1975, the tournament was played on clay courts instead of grass, and floodlights allowed matches to be played at night. In 1978, the tournament moved from the West Side Tennis Club to the larger and newly constructed USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, Queens, three miles to the north. The tournament's court surface also switched from clay to hard. Jimmy Connors is the only individual to have won US Open singles titles on three surfaces (grass, clay, and hard), while Chris Evert is the only woman to win US Open singles titles on two surfaces
1987 US Open (tennis) / Paul Annacone 6–4, 6–7, 7–6 David Wheaton defeated Andrei Cherkasov 7–6, 6–0 Natasha Zvereva defeated Sandra Birch 6–0, 6–3 Goran Ivanišević / Diego Nargiso defeated Zeeshan Ali / Brett Steven 3–6, 6–4, 6–3 Meredith McGrath / Kimberly Po defeated Il-Soon Kim / Shi-Ting Wang 6–4, 7–5 Total prize money for the event was $3,979,294. 1987 US Open (tennis) The 1987 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City. It was the 107th edition of the US Open and was held from September 1 to September 14,