By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, June 8, 2026
Photograph credit score: Antoine Couvercelle/ROLEX
Darth Federer will gentle up Gotham Metropolis once more.
Twenty-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer will return to the 2026 US Open to play a doubles exhibition.
The five-time US Open champion Federer will play a doubles exhibition night time match alongside fellow former Flushing Meadows champions Andre Agassi, John McEnroe and Andy Roddick. Federer famously earned the nickname “Darth Federer” amongst New York followers when he performed US Open night time matches in all-black apparel.
The doubles exhibition is about for 7 p.m. Tuesday, August twenty fifth. Tickets go on sale to most people on Thursday, June eleventh at 9 a.m. Jap time by way of Ticketmaster and USOpen.org.
“The US Open has all the time been some of the particular tournaments for me,” Federer mentioned. “So many unforgettable moments of my profession occurred in New York, and Arthur Ashe Stadium is a spot which means an ideal deal to me.
“I’ve missed being a part of that environment and feeling the unimaginable vitality that the followers convey yearly. To return to Arthur Ashe and share the night with Andy, Andre and John makes it much more significant. I’m trying ahead to celebrating these reminiscences, seeing the followers once more, and having fun with a really particular night time collectively.”
Federer famously out-dueled Agassi within the 2005 US Open last.
It was Federer’s second US Open championship in a run of 5 consecutive Flushing Meadows crowns that ended together with his upset loss to Juan Martin del Potro in a spirited 2009 last.
The Swiss famous person returned to the US Open as a fan for a 2024 night time match and obtained a rousing and sustained standing ovation from Arthur Ashe Stadium followers.
Two days later, Federer advised Tennis Now in an interview at Wilson’s flagship Manhattan retailer that was some of the “stunning” receptions he’s obtained reinforcing the connection he feels with New York Metropolis’s festive followers.
“I used to be a bit of bit nervous to start with. As a result of I used to be feeling like everybody was trying in direction of me and I used to be additionally apprehensive simply to see how was it going to be for me, the expertise?” Federer advised Tennis Now. “As a result of I actually hadn’t been again to the US Open since I retired. So I received into the stadium and to see everybody so completely happy that I’m there. I’m completely happy they introduced me in a short time as a result of as soon as I used to be within the stadium that was finished. After which I might benefit from the night.
“The ovation I received was unimaginable.
“You recognize, I really like taking part in in New York. And I do know the New York folks, the New York tennis followers, know that. In order that’s why I believe.
“However to get an ovation like that, it’s all the time stunning.
“These days, I don’t get it fairly often anymore as a result of I’m driving youngsters round doing what I’m doing.”
Anticipate Arthur Ashe Stadium to be rocking once more when 4 of the US Open’s hottest males’s champion convene for the doubles exhibition.
