2024 US Open Preview and Free Picks

The last Grand Slam of the year takes place, the US Open, which will have a great fight for the trophy after a very even year, where Novak Djokovic will seek to defend the title and win his first major of 2024.

This will be the 144th edition of the US Open, held on outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City. The tournament will run from August 26 to September 8 and will award 2,000 ATP ranking points to the champion.

2024 US Open Preview and Betting Odds and Info

2024 US Open Top Contenders

A great tournament awaits us in the United States. Novak Djokovic arrives as the main candidate, being the reigning champion and after winning the gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, thusachieving the only title he wasmissing.

Despite that, the Serb has not won any Grand Slam this year, which only happened once in the last 13 years, when in 2017, an elbow injury took him out of Wimbledon and did not allow him to play the US Open.

On the other hand, Djokovic took a “vacation” after the Olympics, so he had almost a month without playing. It remains to be seen if this affects him by losing continuity, or instead allows him to arrive rested and with more energy. He starts the tournament against the Moldavian Radu Albot, who comes from the qualy, so he should not have any problem.

In case Djokovic wins this title, he will become the tennis player with more Grand Slams in history, both in the men’s and women’sbranch, as he is now equal to Margaret Court (24).

In the second step, we find Carlos Alcaraz. The Spaniard has already been crowned champion this year at Roland Garros and Wimbledon, as well as the silver medalist at the Olympics, losing by a double 7-6 against Nole. Alcaraz was the US Open champion in 2022, the first Grand Slam of his career.

However, the 21-year-old comes from suffering a tough setback in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters 1000, falling to Frenchman Gael Monfils. Still, the truth is that it was a rare tournament, as five of the top 10 seeds were eliminated in the second round, and one of them in the first round.

This year on hard court, he was champion in Indian Wells and lost in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and Miami.

Finally, we cannot leave out the world number 1, Jannik Sinner. The Italian, out due to illness at the Olympic Games, has already won his first Grand Slam this year, the Australian Open, and a few days ago, he won the Cincinnati Masters 1000, beating Frances Tiafoe in two sets.

But that’s not all on the hard court, as he was also champion in Miami, andRotterdam, semifinalist in Indian Wells losing to Alcaraz, and reached the quarterfinals in Montreal, losing to Andrey Rublev. It could be said, that Sinner is the one with the best results in 2024 in this type of surface, and he will be looking to overcome the quarterfinals of this tournament for the first time.

2024 US Open Outside Picks

Alexander Zverev has already been a finalist at Roland Garros and a semifinalist at the Australian Open this year and feels he is ready for his first Grand Slam. He comes from losing in the Cincinnati semifinals to Sinner and a week earlier in the Montreal quarterfinals to Sebastian Korda. He made the semifinals in Miami and his only title of 2024 was the Rome Masters 1000.

Much is always expected of Daniil Medvedev, and every year, we wonder if this will be the Russians. But it wasn’t 2024. He started very well being a finalist in Australia, but he has not won a title. The only Grand Slam he has won was precisely the US Open in 2021, and this year, he was also a finalist in Indian Wells and a semifinalist in Miami. However, he comes from losing in his first game in Montreal and Cincinnati.

2024 US Open Podium Betting Picks

1. Jannik Sinner

2. Carlos Alcaraz

3. Daniil Medvedev

Prize bag

The total prize money of the US Open is 75,000,000 dollars, for men and women, singles, doubles, and mixed doubles. The champion of singles will win 3.6 million dollars, while the runner-up 1.8 million dollars.