Serena,
Djokovic top seeds for U.S. Open
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[August 26, 2015]
(Reuters) - World number ones Serena
Williams, aiming to complete the first calendar-year grand slam in 27
years, and Novak Djokovic have been named the top seeds for the U.S.
Open championships starting on Monday in New York.
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Williams, winner of the last three U.S. women's singles crowns at
Flushing Meadows, is followed on the seeding list by number two
Simona Halep of Romania, a 2014 French Open finalist.
Russia's Maria Sharapova, the 2006 U.S. Open winner, is seeded third
with 2014 U.S. Open finalist Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark seeded
fourth.
Five-times U.S. Open champion Roger Federer is the second seed for
the men's event where the top-10 seeds feature five U.S. Open
champions and six grand slam winners in all.
In addition to 2011 champion Djokovic of Serbia and Switzerland's
Federer (2004-08), former U.S. champions include Andy Murray (2012),
Rafael Nadal (2010, 13) and last year's winner, Marin Cilic of
Croatia.
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Scotland's Murray is seeded third, Spaniard Nadal is eighth and
Cilic seeded ninth.
Kei Nishikori of Japan, runner-up last year to Cilic, is seeded
fourth, one spot ahead of reigning French Open champion Stan
Wawrinka of Switzerland.
Other prominent women's seeds include fifth-seeded Czech Petra
Kvitova, the 2011 and 2014 Wimbledon champion, followed at number
six by compatriot Lucie Safarova, this year’s French Open finalist.
Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, a U.S. Open finalist in 2012 and 2013,
is seeded 20th. Twice U.S. winner Venus Williams is seeded 23rd,
2011 champion Samantha Stosur of Australia is 22nd and 2004 U.S.
Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia is seeded 30th.
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A victory for Serena Williams would make her the fourth woman to
sweep all four slams in a single season, joining Maureen Connolly
(1953), Margaret Court (1970) and Steffi Graf (1988).
It would also be the American's seventh U.S. Open singles crown,
breaking her tie atop the all-time list with Chris Evert, and move
her into a tie for second on the career grand slam singles list with
Graf at 22, two behind Court.
The singles draws for the 2015 U.S. Open will be made at the
National Tennis Center on Thursday.
(Reporting by Larry Fine in Edison, New Jersey; Editing by Mark
Lamport-Stokes)
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