NEW YORK – The USA Tennis Affiliation introduced Monday that former participant Eric Butorac will exchange Stacey Allaster as event director of the U.S. Open.
Butorac is USTA’s senior director of participant relations and enterprise growth, and in addition served as event director for this yr’s U.S. Open, a brand new occasion, combined doubles.
“It is a dream come true in some ways and the fruits of my tennis life and profession,” Butolak mentioned.
He has been an expert tennis participant for 14 years, ranked within the prime 20 within the ATP doubles rankings, and was a doubles finalist on the 2014 Australian Open.
Butorac additionally served as president of the ATP Gamers Council.
He joined USTA in 2016 and served as event director for the Cincinnati Open in 2022.
“Eric has helped improve the U.S. Open expertise for each gamers and followers, and his management, perception and keenness for the sport make him the perfect individual to steer the event’s subsequent chapter of success,” mentioned Brian Vahari, interim co-CEO of the USTA.
Allaster was appointed because the US Open’s event director in 2020, changing into the primary girl to carry the place within the event’s historical past, which was first held in 1881. She has labored for the USTA since 2016 and beforehand served as president and CEO of the WTA Girls’s Skilled Tennis Tour.
Allaster will stay in his function as USTA’s chief govt {of professional} tennis till Might, after which he’ll transfer into an advisory function with the group.
