US Open 2021: Men's and Women's singles draws

The tennis schedule is in the groove again in 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic upset a large part of the 2020 season. The US Open is once again at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York and will be displaying probably the greatest stars in the game.

The men’s field will be without a portion of its star power for the second successive year. Neither Roger Federer nor Rafael Nadal will be participating in the US Open. Federer went through knee medical procedure recently and desires to get back to the court in 2022.

The Swiss tennis star partook in Wimbledon recently, however experienced one more knee injury at the Grand Slam competition. In the interim, Nadal has been managing a persistent foot injury and as of late reported that he is passing on the remainder of the 2021 season.

Defending US Open champ Dominic Thiem will likewise miss the current year’s US Open as he manages a wrist injury. Like Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, Domonic Thiem will be on the rack for the rest of the 2021 tennis season. Dominic Thiem experienced the wrist injury in Mallorca recently.

While there will be a lot of the game’s greatest stars sitting out, Novak Djokovic will be taking an interest in the US Open. Djokovic will be hoping to pass Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal for the most Grand Slam titles ever. Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal right now have 20 Grand Slam titles each.

Novak Djokovic acquired his twentieth Grand Slam title in July when he succeeded at Wimbledon. With a success, Djokovic would likewise turn into the first male player to win the schedule year Grand Slam in the Open Era, in the wake of winning the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon this year.

On the ladies’ side, Serena Williams will not be partaking at the US Open because of a hamstring injury. This is the very injury that made Williams miss the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Likewise, Sofia Kenin, who is the No. 5 positioned player, will miss the US Open because of a new certain COVID-19 test. Kenin had been managing a foot injury that she endured at Wimbledon recently.

Ashleigh Barty and defending US Open and Naomi Osaka are the two top picks in the women field of the current year’s US Open. Recently, Naomi Osaka stood out as truly newsworthy when she said that she wouldn’t satisfy her media commitments and in the end pulled out from the French Open.

She pulled out from Wimbledon prior to making her re-visitation of light the cauldron and take part in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

While there will be a bunch of the game’s greatest stars missing at the US Open, the field will in any case have a lot of invigorating activity in the coming weeks.

Schedule
Men’s singles first round

No. 1 Novak Djokovic vs. TBD
Alex de Minaur vs. Taylor Fritz
Hubert Hurkacz vs. Egor Gerasimov
Lorenzo Sonego vs. TBD
Matteo Berrettini vs. Jeremy Chardy
Alexander Zverev vs. Sam Querrey
Gael Monfils vs. Federico Coria
Jannik Sinner vs. Max Purcell
Pablo Carreno Busta vs. TBD
Denis Shapovalov vs. Federico Delbonis
Andrey Rublev vs. TBD
Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Nick Kyrgios
Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. TBD
Cristian Garin vs. Norbert Gombos
Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Andy Murray
Casper Ruud vs. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
John Isner vs. Brandon Nakashima
Diego Schwartzman vs. Ricardas Berankis
Grigor Dimitrov vs. Sam Riffice
Daniil Medvedev vs. Richard Gasquet

Women’s singles first round

Ashleigh Barty vs. Vera Zvonareva
Jennifer Brady vs. TBD
Belinda Bencic vs. Arantxa Rus
Iga Swiatek vs. TBD
Karolina Pliskova vs. Catherine McNally
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Alison Riske
Petra Kvitova vs. Polona Hercog
Maria Sakkari vs. Marta Kostyuk
Bianca Andreescu vs. Viktorija Golubic
Elina Svitolina vs. TBD
Elena Rybakina vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
Simona Halep vs. Camila Giorgi
Angelique Kerber vs. Dayana Yastremska
Naomi Osaka vs. Marie Bouzkova
Barbora Krejcikova vs. TBD
Victoria Azarenka vs. Tereza Martincova
Garbine Muguruza vs. Donna Vekic
Elise Mertens vs. Rebecca Peterson
Ons Jabeur vs. Alize Cornet
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Nina Stojanovic