First female US Open tournament director Allaster to step down in 2025

Stacey Allaster, the first female US Open tournament director, will step down from her role in 2025. Also the chief executive of professional tennis at the USTA, Allaster is set to oversee the New York Major business for one final time in August-September next year.

“I am excited to close out my career in professional tennis with the USTA,” she told the US Open recently. “It has been an honor to lead one of the world’s most prestigious sport and entertainment events: a pinnacle point in a career that allowed me the privilege to collaborate with extraordinary athletes, leaders, staff, volunteers and fans.

“I am proud of the growth and innovation that propelled the US Open to new record level attendance and even more so to have become the first female tournament director of the US Open—an honor that will pave the way for more female leaders in the sport that I love. For now, I am focused and inspired to stage the most successful USO in 2025.”

Allaster, who took charge at Flushing Meadows in 2020, is a former chairman and CEO of the WTA. She will continue to serve USTA in an advisory role to help the organisation find her successor.

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