US Open seeds in full as Raducanu, Nadal and Kyrgios miss ultimate 2023 Grand Slam
Carlos Alcaraz will defend his US Open title because the No 1 seed when the ultimate Grand Slam of the yr will get underway in New York on Monday. The Spaniard, who moved again to the highest of the world rankings after beating Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon, got here unstuck towards his Serbian rival within the ultimate of the Cincinatti Open final Sunday however edged out the 23-time Grand Slam champion by simply 20 factors to take the highest seed place at Flushing Meadows.
It is the third time that Murcia native Alacaraz has been put in as the highest seed for a Grand Slam after he was awarded the berth at each SW19 and the French Open. Alacaraz was set to be the No 1 seed on the Australian Open in January as effectively, earlier than withdrawing with an harm.
With Djokovic second seed, 2021 champion Daniil Medvedev is positioned third. Danish star Holger Rune takes his highest-ever Grand Slam seeding in fourth, adopted by Casper Ruud, Jannik Sinner, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Andrey Rublev. The American pair of Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe completes the highest 10.
Other US stars to make it into the record of 32 seeded gamers within the males’s draw embrace Tommy Paul (14), Chris Eubanks (28) and Sebastian Korda (31). It is a big second for Georgia-born Eubanks who’s seeded for the primary time in his profession having solely damaged into the world’s high 100 earlier this yr.
The 27-year-old one his maiden ATP title in Mallorca every week earlier than making it to the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, propelling him into the highlight.
Britain has two seeded representatives with Cameron Norrie ranked sixteenth and Dan Evans twenty sixth, however Andy Murray is 5 locations exterior the rankings and won’t be seeded. Notable absentees within the males’s draw embrace Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios who’re each nonetheless recovering from accidents which have wrecked their seasons, whereas Jan-Lennard Struff and Denis Shapovalov have each withdrawn.
In the ladies’s draw, there isn’t any Emma Raducanu. She is lacking after present process wrist surgical procedure as she appears to deal with an issue that has rendered her season a write-off. The 19-year-old grew to become the primary Brit to win a Grand Slam title since Virginia Wade when she surprised the tennis world in New York two years in the past with out dropping a set.
Polish star Iga Swiatek is the highest seed for the seventh consecutive time. Despite struggling a shock defeat to Coco Gauff within the Cincinnati Open semifinals, she remains to be world No 1 and can look to defend her title because the primary seed.
Aryna Sabalenka takes second spot, adopted by Jessica Pegula, Elena Rybakina, Ons Jabeur, Cincinnati Open winner Gauff, Caroline Garcia, Maria Sakkari, Marketa Vondrousova and Karolina Muchova who was crushed by Gauff in Sunday’s WTA 1000 occasion ultimate.
2023 US Open males’s singles seeds
1. Carlos Alcaraz
2. Novak Djokovic
3. Daniil Medvedev
4. Holger Rune
5. Casper Ruud
6. Jannik Sinner
7. Stefanos Tsitsipas
8. Andrey Rublev
9. Taylor Fritz
10. Frances Tiafoe
11. Karen Khachanov
12. Alexander Zverev
13. Alex de Minaur
14. Tommy Paul
15. Felix Auger-Aliassime
16. Cameron Norrie
17. Hubert Hurkacz
18. Lorenzo Musetti
19. Grigor Dimitrov
20. Francisco Cerundolo
21. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
22. Adrian Mannarino
23. Nicolas Jarry
24. Tallon Griekspoor
25. Alexander Bublik
26. Dan Evans
27. Borna Coric
28. Christopher Eubanks
29. Ugo Humbert
30. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
31. Sebastian Korda
32. Laslo Djere
2023 US Open girls’s singles seeds
1. Iga Swiatek
2. Aryna Sabalenka
3. Jessica Pegula
4. Elena Rybakina
5. Ons Jabeur
6. Coco Gauff
7. Caroline Garcia
8. Maria Sakkari
9. Marketa Vondrousova
10. Karolina Muchova
11. Petra Kvitova
12. Barbora Krejcikova
13. Daria Kasatkina
14. Liudmila Samsonova
15. Belinda Bencic
16. Veronika Kudermetova
17. Madison Keys
18. Victoria Azarenka
19. Beatriz Haddad Maia
20. Jeļena Ostapenko
21. Donna Vekic
22. Ekaterina Alexandrova
23. Zheng Qinwen
24. Magda Linette
25. Karolina Pliskova
26. Elina Svitolina
27. Anastasia Potapova
28. Anhelina Kalinina
29. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
30. Sorana Cirstea
31. Marie Bouzkova
32. Elise Mertens