Serena Williams enters the 2015 tennis season’s final Grand Slam event, the U.S. Open, with three Grand Slams in the rearview mirror. Chasing history, Williams could become the first player to sweep the season’s four major events and win the properly dubbed Grand Slam since the great Steffi Graf back in 1988.
US Open tickets at Championship Tennis Tours currently start at just $39 for the opening rounds, but get steeper and steeper in price as the tournament continues. The cheapest tickets available for Labor Day weekend are Friday evening at $65 for promenade seating.  Quarterfinals tickets start at $69 for promenade and $675 courtside.
Those prices pale in comparison, however, to ticket prices for the semifinals and finals. The Men’s Finals has the highest get-in price, currently, at $235 for promenade seating and $3,995 to sit courtside. Women’s Finals tickets start at $195 currently and $1,895 courtside, but those numbers could jump up in price if Serena can advance all the way to the Finals on September 12th, according to Championship Tennis Tours.
Serena is coming off of an impressive victory at the Western and Southern Open last week, losing just one set during the entire tournament. If she can repeat her performance from last week, chances are strong she’ll be holding the trophy on September 12th.  And if she does win, she’ll not only win the first Grand Slam by any professional tennis player in 27 years, but she’ll have twenty career victories for her career, only two behind the career-record holder, the aforementioned Steffi Graf.

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