The stars are aligning for the year’s final Grand Slam event: The 2024 US Open main-draw entry lists have been revealed, and tennis’ biggest names will take to the sport’s grandest stage when the spotlight falls upon the Flushing fortnight.
World No. 1s Jannik Sinner, January’s Australian Open champion, and Iga Swiatek, who won her third straight Roland Garros title in June, lead the men’s and women’s initial entry lists, and they are joined at the top by world No. 2s and defending champions Novak Djokovic and Coco Gauff. Sinner played his first Grand Slam tournament as the world’s top player at Wimbledon, having ascended to the top spot on June 10, while Swiatek tops the field in New York for the third year running since first ascending to the No. 1 ranking in the spring of 2022.
Click to view the full initial entry lists: Men’s Singles | Women’s Singles
All three of the year’s other Grand Slam champions are also on the list, including 2022 US Open champion Carlos Alcaraz, who after winning Roland Garros and Wimbledon is seeking to be the first man since Rafael Nadal in 2010 to win Paris, London and New York in the same year; reigning Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka, the 2023 US Open finalist who missed Wimbledon due to injury; and recently-crowned Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova, who returned to the Top 10 in this week’s WTA rankings that determined the entry lists.
Notably, four-time US Open champion Nadal has also entered the field with a protected ranking of No. 9. The 22-time major champion and former world No. 1 has played the US Open just once, in 2022, since winning his fourth Queens crown in 2019, and is one of 14 players using a protected ranking to earn main-draw entry. Also entered via a protected ranking are 2020 semifinalist Pablo Carreno Busta and quarterfinalist Denis Shapovalov, 2022 quarterfinalist Ajla Tomljanovic, 2020 quarterfinalist Shelby Rogers, and 2019 quarterfinalist Wang Qiang, as well as American Reilly Opelka, who is set to play his first Grand Slam tournament since 2022 after a long spell with injuries.
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Publish date : 2024-07-16 16:16:07
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