Eric Butorac
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Sep 4, 2026
Ben RothenbergHOST
His, his match finished.
Ben RothenbergHOST
Um, I got the chance, thanks to cooperation, uh, from Eric Butorac, who's the US Open tournament director, and Brendan McIntyre, who's Game, Set, and Match's communications director, had to sign off on it as well, uh, to be in the, uh, scheduling room with the tournament, uh, administrators as they made an order of play for today, for, for Thursday.
Ben RothenbergHOST
The scheduling, the first session happened late Tuesday night, happened about 9:00 PM Tuesday night.
Ben RothenbergHOST
They did their first look at Thursday's schedule, and then, um, came back and did more on Wednesday afternoon.
Andy RoddickHOST
Yeah.
Jon WertheimHOST
Uh, you know, the, Craig Tiley came out with Eric Butorac and, and gave him, like, a little plaque-
Andy RoddickHOST
[laughs]
Jon WertheimHOST
... and did a, did the thing.
Rennae StubbsHOST
And they were going to move it over there.
Rennae StubbsHOST
And then right at the last minute, they decided to keep it on Ashe, which was a great decision really from the USTA and from Eric, uh, Butorac, the new referee.
Rennae StubbsHOST
Because all the people that'll have stayed, that stayed in that arena- For Venus ... would've had to go over to Armstrong to, to watch that match, and I don't think they would've been too happy because they paid a high and pretty penny for those seats on center court, and they thank- thankfully, they stayed there.
Rennae StubbsHOST
But to answer your question, yes, why not? She puts bums in seats.
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Rennae StubbsHOST
Yeah
Caitlin ThompsonHOST
... he's, he's not really fully, you know, running the show.
Caitlin ThompsonHOST
I mean, I think, you know, this is the tournament that Eric Butorac is running, and, and he's still-
Rennae StubbsHOST
Yeah
David LawHOST
Yes.
Catherine WhitakerHOST
And less so an Eric Butorac press conference.
Catherine WhitakerHOST
[laughs]
David LawHOST
Yeah, I mean, look, I suppose it's not really surprising in that Craig Tiley is the, the incoming USTA chief executive, president.
David LawHOST
I'm not exactly sure what his title is.
David LawHOST
Um, but the tournament director of the US Open is Eric Butorac.
David LawHOST
Now, in the past, Craig Tiley had both of those titles at the Australian Open and for Tennis Australia.
David LawHOST
And, and I mean, people are used to asking questions to him.
Blair HenleyHOST
But I stopped by her office last night.
Blair HenleyHOST
I was in there with tournament director Eric Butorac, and, uh, one of, one of their other staff members in the office.
Blair HenleyHOST
They were looking at the practice courts for tomorrow, seeing where the top players were going to end up.
Blair HenleyHOST
And we had a monitor up, and Coleman Wong was playing, and it was ...
Caitlin ThompsonHOST
100%.
Caitlin ThompsonHOST
And I think one thing that is not being talked about very much is Eric Butorac runs this tournament.
Caitlin ThompsonHOST
Eric Butorac replaced Stacey Allaster.
Caitlin ThompsonHOST
Stacey Allaster was the longtime tournament director.
Caitlin ThompsonHOST
I think everybody would agree that she was ultimately very successful.
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Alex GruskinHOST
And I think I speak for every tennis fan when I say I can't wait for year two of this mixed doubles experiment, to have the best doubles players in the world competing against the best singles players in the world, to have a pairing like Serena Williams and Carlos Alcaraz.
Alex GruskinHOST
It's everything tournament director Eric Butorac imagined.
Alex GruskinHOST
There's a reason they brought that experiment over here to year two in 2026.
Alex GruskinHOST
Looking forward to that action, the qualifying action, the tour-level action we have this week as, of course, the women, a 500 in Monterrey, the men, the 250 in Winston-Salem.