Defending champions Novak Djokovic and Coco Gauff will headline the US Open competitors, the ultimate Grand Slam competitors of the yr, ranging from August 26, with Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek, the primary duo being the highest seeds throughout males’s and girls’s classes. The competitors might be going down until September 8. Both Gauff and Djokovic are arriving within the US for this competitors with two totally different trajectories. Gauff has struggled as of late, holding an unremarkable document of 3-4 in her final seven matches. She couldn’t impress so much within the Paris Olympics as properly, exiting the competitors in third spherical, succumbing to the silver medalist Donna Vekic, as per Olympics.com.
The 20-year-old was on a roll final yr this level, successful titles in Washington and Cincinnati earlier than touchdown an enormous victory within the US Open. It could be fascinating to see how Gauff bounces again from current setbacks in house circumstances. She might be opening her marketing campaign towards France’s Varvara Gracheva, with a possible third-round conflict towards Elina Svitolina on the playing cards as properly.
On the opposite hand, Djokovic might be chasing a historic twenty fifth Grand Slam title after securing the landmark Paris Olympic gold medal with a win over Carlos Alcaraz, avenging his loss to him Wimbledon finals simply earlier than the summer season sporting extravaganza.
Sinner had examined optimistic for a prohibited substance, clostebol in March, however as per an impartial tribunal, he bore “no fault or negligence”. The Italian landed his first main title this yr, with a triumph at Australian Open in January. He has momentum by his facet as he secured the Cincinnati Open title this week and might be taking part in America’s Mackenzie McDonald within the first spherical.
In the lads’s draw, Sinner and Djokovic are on the reverse sides, whereas the world quantity three and present Wimbledon champion, Olympic silver medalist Alcaraz is within the prime half with Sinner. Number 4 seed Alexander Zverev joins Djokovic on the backside of the draw.
Swiatek has 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina in her half of the draw, whereas Gauff has second seed Aryna Sabalenka, who received the Cincinnati Open title as properly.
The Italian, who received his first main on the Australian Open in January and captured the Cincinnati Masters earlier this week (19 August), will face American Mackenzie McDonald within the first spherical.
The Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen is the seventh seed, with Sabalenka a seeded quarterfinal opponent. If this match takes place, it’ll mark a rematch of the Australian Open remaining from this January, the place Sabalenka emerged victorious.
US Open tennis: Schedule of play
Matches get underway each day at 1100 native New York time (EDT, GMT -4), with a night session inside each Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong Stadiums at 1900.
Monday & Tuesday, 26 & 27 August – Men’s & girls’s singles first spherical
Wednesday & Thursday, 28 & 29 August – Singles second spherical; doubles underway
Friday & Saturday, 30 & 31 August – Singles third spherical
Sunday & Monday, 1 & 2 September – Singles fourth spherical
Tuesday & Wednesday, 3 & 4 September – Singles quarter-finals
Thursday, 5 September
1500 – Women’s (or blended) doubles remaining
1900 – Women’s semi-finals
Friday, 6 September
1200 – Mixed (or girls’s) doubles remaining
1500 – Men’s semi-final (certainly one of two)
1900 – Men’s semi-final (two of two)
Saturday, 7 September
1200 – Men’s doubles remaining
1600 – Women’s singles remaining
Sunday, 8 September
1400 – Men’s singles remaining.
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