Stacy Allaster On The Success Of This Year's US Open

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00:00 US Open amazing perspective stat that when you look at economic impact of Super Bowls

00:07 and Final Fours and all of that, that's great, gets a lot of visibility, but I don't think

00:12 people understand in this world we live in that you sell out every day and you have two

00:18 weeks full of activity where people are coming in from out of town, they're staying in New

00:23 York, they're spending a lot of money, and when you add it up, the numbers people glaze

00:28 over, but it's a compelling story.

00:31 Yeah, I don't have the current economic impact, but it's got to be in front of it without

00:37 question.

00:38 And I think the other piece, Rick, that people don't understand, we're actually a three-week

00:42 event.

00:44 We do have that main draw event for two weeks, but we have Fan Week the week before, which

00:49 has a qualifying tournament with 128 men and 128 women.

00:54 The exact same number that's in the main draw played over two weeks.

00:58 We play that in four days, and we're really creating Fan Week as this accessible festival

01:06 for everyone to come, and it's free.

01:09 What professional event in the world do you know that you can go and watch Carlos Alcarez,

01:16 Francis Tiafoe, Ika Swiatek, Coco Gauff practice alongside of those that are grinding it out

01:24 to make the main draw?

01:28 So you put three weeks of energy and thousands of people to work.

01:35 We have over 7,000 people working at the US Open between our vendors and ourselves.

01:41 It's a machine.