{"id":242539,"date":"2025-09-20T23:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242539\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T23:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:12:14","slug":"the-spectacular-amount-of-honey-deuces-sold-at-2025-us-open-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242539\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘spectacular’ amount of Honey Deuces sold at 2025 US Open revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Game, set, sip!<\/p>\n

US Open fans went love-love for Honey Deuces<\/a> this year \u2013 slamming back a record $17 million worth of the famed, $23-a-pop cocktails, the United States Tennis Association reported this week<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200bThe Grey Goose vodka-and-lemonade concoction<\/a> \u2013 topped with a skewer of honeydew melon balls \u2013 was guzzled 738,459 times during the 2025 tournament, a jaw-dropping 32% jump from last year.<\/p>\n

But booze wasn\u2019t the only thing breaking records.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"AUS Open fans slammed back a record $17 million worth of Honey Deuces this year. REUTERS<\/p>\n

The Open itself drew a whopping 1.14 million spectators to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center between Aug. 24 and Sept. 7 \u2013 a 9% bump from last year and the biggest crowd in the event\u2019s history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Open also served up a record-shattering $90 million purse \u2013 the largest payday in professional tennis and a 20% spike from last year\u2019s $75 million haul.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Singles champs Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> each scored a staggering $5 million \u2013 the biggest winner\u2019s checks in tennis history and a 39% raise from the $3.6 million that last year\u2019s titlists took home.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"manThe famed cocktail \u2014 topped with its signature skewer of honeydew melon balls \u2014 was guzzled 738,459 times during the 2025 tournament, a jaw-dropping 32% jump from last year. Steven Vago\/NY Post<\/p>\n

And for the first time ever, the winning teams<\/a> from men\u2019s, women\u2019s and mixed doubles took home $1 million in prize money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even the gift shops hit aces, as sales of merch such as US Open-branded Ralph Lauren jackets worth $268, $130 Peter Millar polos and $42 teddy bears spiked 27% year-over-year, according to the USTA.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis year\u2019s US Open truly embodied the spirit of \u2018Spectacular,\u2019 surpassing expectations and setting new records across the board \u2013 from fan engagement and player impact to partner success that inspired a love for tennis to grow the sport at the community level,\u201d said Stacey Allaster, Chief Executive of Pro Tennis and US Open Tournament Director.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we achieved together over these three incredible weeks is a reminder of the power of sport and the extraordinary potential still waiting to be unlocked in tennis,\u201d Allaster said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game, set, sip! US Open fans went love-love for Honey Deuces this year \u2013 slamming back a record…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":242540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[12080,1165,5248,28882,10545,62,1464,5724,67,132,68,1154,20886],"class_list":{"0":"post-242539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-cocktails","9":"tag-lifestyle","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-records","12":"tag-reports","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-tennis-match","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-us-news","20":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115239160666373936","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}