The 2019 US Open will be the 139th edition of tennis’ US Open and the fourth and final Grand Slam event of the year. It will be held on outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in NYC.

The US Open Tennis Championships was founded back in 1881, making it one of the oldest sports events in the US. Since 1987, the US Open has been the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the year, following the Australian Open, the French Open, and Wimbledon.

The Main Draw starts from August 26th and ends September 8th. While the Qualifiers are scheduled between 19th to 23rd August.

How to Watch US Open Tennis?

For those that weren’t lucky enough to buy tickets to Tennis US Open and won’t be sitting comfortably in the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center there are a number of streaming platforms that will let you enjoy Djokovic-Nadal rivalry on the tennis court.

For US residents, watching the upcoming 2019 US Open Tennis Championship is not going to be an issue since it’s going to be broadcasted live on ESPN due to exclusivity rights.

For people outside of the US, the process will be a little bit different, here’s a list of different streaming services that will broadcast Tennis US Open:

UK — Amazon Prime Video

Australia — ESPN International

Belgium — EuroSport

Brazil — SporTV

Canada — The Sports Network (TSN)

China — Fox Sports Asia

France, Norway, Russia & Germany — EuroSport

India — Star India

Indonesia — Fox Sports Asia

Italy — EuroSport

Japan — Wowow

South Africa — SuperSport

UAE — BeIN Media Group

How to avoid regional limitations?

Streaming services restrict access to their content to people that are outside of the region where they operate. One of the best ways to gain access to the streaming service is to use a VPN.

A VPN is like a secure tunnel for a web traffic. You connect to one of the servers and your web traffic which consists of requests you send to websites you wish to visit to responses from websites you receive back becomes encrypted by Military-grade encryption. Meaning that you will browse safely on any public Wi-Fi network while drinking coffee at Starbucks or waiting for a plane at the airport.

Trusted VPN providers have lots of servers to offer and your internet speed shouldn’t decrease as much. You should lose approximately 20% internet speed from the original, meaning you can torrent safely, stream online content without experiencing lag issues and play online games as well.

Some VPN providers have additional perks — inbuilt ad blockers that detect adware, Internet kill switches that ensure you won’t spill your personal information when disconnected from VPN, etc.

Here are some providers that are noteworthy of attention:

NordVPN ($3.49/month for 3 year subscription)

This VPN provider has a built-in adblocker that protects you from adware, perfectly works with streaming services such as Netflix and despite of using Military Grade encryption your Internet speed won’t be affected too much.

Is available on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and other systems too.

NordVPN has more than 5000 servers in 60+ countries meaning that you can connect to almost any place in the world. Your traffic isn’t logged.

NordVPN itself operates and answers by the laws of Panama meaning that your data isn’t collected and sold to the highest bidder.

ExpressVPN ($8.32/month for 1 year)

One of the Fastest VPNs in the world.

Remarkably reliable and consistent, whether you’re connecting to a local server, or one on the other side of the world.

AirVPN ($5.25/month)

AirVPN is an Italian-based, open-source virtual private network (VPN) solution designed to protect user’s privacy over the internet.