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
1984 US Open (tennis) In the process, they also began charging separate admission for each of the two sessions on the last Saturday of the fortnight. 1984 US Open (tennis) The 1984 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City in New York in the United States. It was the 104th edition of the US Open and was held from August 28 to September 9, 1984. John McEnroe defeated Ivan Lendl 6–3, 6–4, 6–1 Martina Navratilova defeated Chris Evert-Lloyd 4–6, 6–4, 6–4 John Fitzgerald / Tomáš Šmíd defeated Stefan Edberg /