Pete Sampras defeated Andre Agassi in the final, 6–3, 6–4, 5–7, 6–4 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2002 US Open. It was his fifth US Open title (an Open Era record) and his all-time record-extending 14th major title overall. The final was a rematch of the 1990 and 1995 US Open finals, where Sampras won his first and seventh major titles respectively. It was Sampras' last professional appearance, though he did not officially declare his retirement until 2003. Sampras became the only man in the Open Era to win the final major he played. Lleyton Hewitt was the defending champion, but lost to Agassi in the semifinals. This marked the most recent occasion where eight different men appeared in the four major singles finals of a calendar year.

Seeds

• # 🇦🇺 Lleyton Hewitt (semifinals) • # 🇷🇺 Marat Safin (second round) • # 🇩🇪 Tommy Haas (fourth round) • # 🇷🇺 Yevgeny Kafelnikov (second round) • # 🇬🇧 Tim Henman (third round) • # 🇺🇸 Andre Agassi (final) • # 🇪🇸 Juan Carlos Ferrero (third round) • # 🇪🇸 Albert Costa (second round) • # 🇪🇸 Carlos Moyá (second round) • # 🇫🇷 Sébastien Grosjean (second round) • # 🇺🇸 Andy Roddick (quarterfinals) • # 🇸🇪 Thomas Johansson (withdrew) • # Roger Federer (fourth round) • # 🇨🇿 Jiří Novák (fourth round) • # 🇦🇷 Guillermo Cañas (withdrew) • # 🇦🇷 David Nalbandian (first round) • # 🇺🇸 Pete Sampras (champion) • # 🇪🇸 Àlex Corretja (third round) • # 🇧🇪 Xavier Malisse (third round) • # 🇲🇦 Younes El Aynaoui (quarterfinals) • # 🇦🇷 Gastón Gaudio (third round) • # Marcelo Ríos (third round) • # 🇩🇪 Rainer Schüttler (first round) • # 🇳🇱 Sjeng Schalken (semifinals) • # 🇺🇸 James Blake (third round) • # 🇦🇷 Juan Ignacio Chela (fourth round) • # 🇪🇨 Nicolás Lapentti (first round) • # Fernando González (quarterfinals) • # 🇸🇪 Thomas Enqvist (third round) • # 🇷🇴 Andrei Pavel (first round) • # 🇪🇸 Tommy Robredo (third round) • # 🇧🇾 Max Mirnyi (quarterfinals) • # 🇬🇧 Greg Rusedski (third round) • # 🇫🇮 Jarkko Nieminen (first round)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Other entry information

Wild cards

• 🇮🇳 Prakash Amritraj • 🇺🇸 Alex Bogomolov Jr. • 🇺🇸 Jack Brasington • 🇺🇸 Matías Boeker • 🇺🇸 Mardy Fish • 🇺🇸 Justin Gimelstob • 🇺🇸 Alex Kim • 🇺🇸 Brian Vahaly

Protected ranking

• Richard Krajicek • 🇮🇱 Harel Levy • 🇸🇪 Magnus Norman

Qualifiers

• 🇦🇷 Gastón Etlis • Ivo Heuberger • Edwin Kempes • 🇫🇮 Tuomas Ketola • 🇷🇺 Igor Kunitsyn • 🇫🇷 Jean-René Lisnard • 🇧🇬 Radoslav Lukaev • 🇧🇪 Dick Norman • 🇮🇱 Noam Okun • 🇸🇪 Björn Rehnquist • Slimane Saoudi • 🇸🇪 Robin Söderling • 🇺🇸 Eric Taino • John van Lottum • Martin Verkerk • 🇩🇪 Alexander Waske

Lucky losers

• Mario Ančić • 🇩🇪 Lars Burgsmüller

Withdrawals

• Goran Ivanišević (68) → replaced by 🇦🇹 Jürgen Melzer (103) • 🇦🇹 Markus Hipfl (95) → replaced by Kenneth Carlsen (104) • 🇫🇷 Nicolas Escudé (40) → replaced by 🇮🇹 Andrea Gaudenzi (105) • 🇦🇷 Guillermo Cañas (23) → replaced by 🇩🇪 Lars Burgsmüller (LL) • 🇸🇪 Thomas Johansson (9) → replaced by Mario Ančić (LL)