US Open 2026: Watch

Sports · Tennis · US Open 2026

How do I watch the US Open?

It used to be easy: turn on CBS, done. Now it’s ESPN, an antenna, and half a dozen apps — and it’s different in every country. Complicated, but solvable. Pick your country below and I’ll get you set up.

First ball
August 30 – September 13, 2026
Fan Week from August 23 · qualifying is free to stream
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ABC
Free option — the finals, over the air with an antenna
ESPN app
Every court + qualifying stream here
$11.99
Cheapest all-access — ESPN Select, per month
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US languages: English + Spanish (ESPN Deportes)
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Languages worldwide across official broadcasters
2015
The year ESPN took exclusive US rights

Anywhere in the world

Find your country

The US Open is broadcast in dozens of countries, each by its own official rights-holder. Click your country on the map — or use the picker — for the broadcaster, app and languages where you are.

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Pick your country

Watching from…

Choose where you are and jump straight to your official broadcaster, streaming app and languages. Every country’s block is here whether or not you use the picker.

Pick your country and the map highlights your region — or just read the full directory below.

United States

  1. Broadcaster: ESPN, ESPN2, ABC (finals) & ESPN Deportes
  2. Stream: The ESPN app — Select or Unlimited
  3. Language: English, Spanish

Home market — see the US setup below.

United Kingdom & Ireland

  1. Broadcaster: Sky Sports
  2. Stream: Sky Go / NOW (day & month passes)
  3. Language: English

NOW sells a day or month pass if you don’t have Sky.

Canada

  1. Broadcaster: TSN (English) / RDS (French)
  2. Stream: TSN+ / RDS app
  3. Language: English, French

Bilingual coverage — RDS carries the French feed.

Europe (most of the continent)

  1. Broadcaster: Eurosport / TNT Sports
  2. Stream: discovery+ / Eurosport app
  3. Language: Local languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish, and more)

Warner Bros. Discovery holds pan-European rights across most markets.

Latin America (Spanish-speaking)

  1. Broadcaster: ESPN Latin America
  2. Stream: Disney+ (with the ESPN plan)
  3. Language: Spanish

ESPN’s Spanish feeds stream through Disney+ across the region.

Brazil

  1. Broadcaster: SporTV / ESPN
  2. Stream: Disney+ (with the ESPN plan)
  3. Language: Portuguese

Portuguese-language coverage — separate from the Spanish LatAm feed.

Japan

  1. Broadcaster: WOWOW
  2. Stream: WOWOW On Demand
  3. Language: Japanese

WOWOW is the long-time home of the Slams in Japan.

Middle East & North Africa

  1. Broadcaster: beIN Sports
  2. Stream: beIN Sports Connect / TOD
  3. Language: Arabic, English

beIN carries the Slams across the MENA region.

East & Southeast Asia

  1. Broadcaster: SPOTV
  2. Stream: SPOTV NOW
  3. Language: English & local languages

SPOTV holds the rights across much of the region.

China (mainland)

  1. Broadcaster: CCTV-5
  2. Stream: Tencent Video / iQIYI
  3. Language: Mandarin

CCTV-5 on TV; Tencent Video and iQIYI stream in Mandarin.

Australia

  1. Broadcaster: Nine Network (9Now, free-to-air)
  2. Stream: Stan Sport (every match)
  3. Language: English

Nine shows featured matches free; Stan Sport streams every court.

India & the subcontinent

  1. Broadcaster: Star Sports (JioStar)
  2. Stream: JioHotstar
  3. Language: English, Hindi

JioStar holds rights across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.

In the United States

Your US setup, in three steps

Wherever you are in the country, it comes down to three choices — free, all-access, or nothing new to buy.

Free-ish$0/mo

Put up an antenna and pull your local ABC affiliate. You get the middle Sunday and both finals — free, over the air. No every-day coverage, and nothing but the marquee matches, but it costs nothing.

Finals & middle Sunday only
All-access$11.99/mo

Get the ESPN app and pick ESPN Select ($11.99) for every court and all of qualifying, or ESPN Unlimited ($29.99) to also get the ESPN, ESPN2, ABC and ESPN Deportes telecasts without cable.

Every court + qualifying
No new subscription$0 extra

Already have cable, Hulu + Live TV, Fubo, DirecTV or Spectrum? You’re done — those carry ESPN, ESPN2, ABC and ESPN Deportes, and several now include ESPN Unlimited so you get every court too.

Check what your plan already includes

The tournament runs on Eastern Time, and the US spans four-plus zones — a 7 PM ET night session is 4 PM on the West Coast. The time-zone converter below shows every session in your own local time.

When is it on for you?

Match times in your time zone

The Open runs on New York time. Here are the key sessions converted to wherever you are — live, from your own device’s clock, no location sharing.

Day session · most match days11:00 AM ET
Night session · under the lights7:00 PM ET
Women’s final · Sat Sep 124:00 PM ET
Men’s final · Sun Sep 132:00 PM ET

During the tournament New York is on Eastern Time (UTC−4). Western Europe is about 5–6 hours ahead, and much of East Asia is about 12–13 hours ahead, so night sessions land late at night or early morning abroad.

What it costs

Every US option, by price

From free to full cable-style bundle, and whether each one actually carries every court.

FreemarqueeAntenna(ABC)$11.99✓ every courtESPNSelect$29.99✓ every courtESPNUnlimited$76.99✓ every courtHulu +Live TV$79.99✓ every courtFubo$82.99marqueeYouTube TV$89.99✓ every courtDirecTVStream$45.99marqueeSling(Orange)

Cheapest to watch everything is ESPN Select at $11.99. The live-TV bundles cost more because you’re buying a whole channel line-up, not just tennis. Starting monthly prices, verified 2026-07-14; they change constantly — check each service before you subscribe.

Why is this so hard now?

How watching got complicated

It genuinely used to be simpler. Here’s the short history of how the free-and-easy TV era gave way to today’s patchwork.

19681968–201420152020s2025
1968
The Open Era begins
Amateurs and pros play the same draw. CBS is the US TV home — one channel, one broadcast.
1968–2014
The CBS era
For nearly half a century you turned on CBS, sat through the ads, and watched. Free, simple, over the air.
2015
ESPN goes exclusive
ESPN/Disney takes over all US rights. Network TV coverage ends; the answer moves to cable and streaming.
2020s
Streaming fragments
Every court moves to ESPN+, marquee matches to ESPN/ESPN2/ABC, and a half-dozen live-TV bundles all carry ESPN.
2025
ESPN’s own app
ESPN launches its standalone streaming app (Select and Unlimited) — the current front door, and where this page begins.

In your language

Languages, at a glance

In the US

Two languages: English on ESPN, and Spanish on ESPN Deportes. Both are carried by the ESPN app and the live-TV bundles.

Around the world

More than 15 languages across the official broadcasters on the map above — a sample:

FrenchGermanItalianSpanishPortugueseJapaneseArabicMandarinHindiDutchPolishSwedish

Compiled from the official US Open broadcast pages (usopen.org, US and International Broadcast Partners), ESPN’s press room and plan pages, and the listed broadcasters’ own sites. Prices, service names, per-country rights and the commentary roster all change — often yearly, sometimes mid-season — and were verified on 2026-07-14; check each service before you subscribe. This guide points only to legitimate local rights-holders; it does not cover VPNs or ways around regional blocks.

Companion pages: Commentators (who’s calling it, and which channel carries which court), Courts (where it’s played) and Qualifying (how players get in).

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