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
1974 Italian Open (tennis) had to follow up by playing the final against titleholder Ilie Năstase only two hours later. Björn Borg defeated Ilie Năstase 6–3, 6–4, 6–2 Chris Evert defeated Martina Navratilova 6–3, 6–3 Brian Gottfried'/ Raúl Ramírez defeated Juan Gisbert / Ilie Năstase 6–3, 6–2, 6–3 Chris Evert / Olga Morozova defeated Helga Masthoff / Heide Orth w.o. 1974 Italian Open (tennis) The 1974 Italian Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament that was played by men on outdoor clay courts at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. The men's tournament was part of the 1974 Commercial Union Assurance Grand