The 1888 and the 1889 men's doubles events were played at the Staten Island Cricket Club in Livingston, Staten Island, New York.

Between 18, sectional tournaments were held in the east and the west of the country to determine the best two doubles teams, which competed in a play-off for the right to compete against the defending champions in the challenge round.

The women's tournament used a challenge system from 1888 through 1918, except in 1917. Match between Oliver Campbell and Bob Huntington In that same year, the men's doubles event was played at the Orange Lawn Tennis Club in South Orange, New Jersey. The winner was 17-year-old Philadelphian Ellen Hansell. Women's National Singles Championship was held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. In September 1887, six years after the men's nationals were first held, the first U.S. National Championship, only men competed and the tournament was known as the U.S. From 1884 through 1911, the tournament used a challenge system whereby the defending champion automatically qualified for the next year's final, where he would play the winner of the all-comers tournament. Richard Sears won the men's singles at this tournament, which was the first of his seven consecutive singles titles. That year, only clubs that were members of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association (USNLTA) were permitted to enter. The tournament was first held in August 1881 on grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. The Newport Casino Tennis Court (as of 2005), where the US Open was first held in 1881 Should the tiebreaker be tied at 9-all, whoever scores two straight points wins it. Since 2022, when a match that reaches 6–all in the last possible set (the third for women and the fifth for men) an extended tiebreaker to 10 points is played. This tournament, from 1971 to 2021, employed standard tiebreakers (first to 7, win by 2) in every set of a singles match. Revenue from ticket sales, sponsorships, and television contracts is used to develop tennis in the United States. The US Open is owned and organized by the United States Tennis Association (USTA), a non-profit organization, and the chairperson of the US Open is Patrick Galbraith. Since 1978, the tournament has been played on acrylic hardcourts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City. The tournament also includes events for senior, junior, and wheelchair players. The tournament consists of five primary championships: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles. It is the only Grand Slam that was not affected by cancellation of World War I and World War II, or get interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. National Championship, for which men's singles and men's doubles were first played in August 1881. The tournament is of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, originally known as the U.S. The US Open starts on the last Monday of August and continues for two weeks, with the middle weekend coinciding with the US Labor Day holiday. The other three, in chronological order, are the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon.

Since 1987, the US Open has been chronologically the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the year. The US Open Tennis Championships is a hardcourt tennis tournament held annually in Queens, New York. USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center (since 1978)

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