The Spanish left-hander, 38, will enter the sphere for the Flushing Meadows fortnight, which begins on August 26, with a protected rating of ninth.
The 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal defeated Leo Borg 6-3, 6-Four on Tuesday in his first singles match since Could 27 on the Nordea Open. Nadal hadn’t competed since falling to Alexander Zverev on the purple clay of Paris within the opening spherical.
Since profitable his fourth New York hard-court title in 2019, Nadal has solely participated in a single US Open, in 2022, as per AFP.
He was certainly one of 14 gamers to safe a protected score and a berth in the principle occasion.
Along with profitable the US Open in 2013, 2017, and 2019, Rafael Nadal accomplished a profession Grand Slam in 2010 within the occasion. After making it to the fourth spherical in 2022, he has solely participated in two Slams and has by no means superior previous the second spherical.
The lads’s and ladies’s fields are led by world primary Jannik Sinner, an Italian who received the Australian Open this 12 months, and top-ranked Iga Swiatek, who received the French Open in June for the third time in a row.
There are additionally two world quantity twos, Novak Djokovic and Coco Gauff, who’re the defending champions.
After profitable the French Open and Wimbledon titles, Carlos Alcaraz of Spain, the 2022 US Open champion, has the potential to turn into the primary participant to win each the US Open and each trophies in the identical 12 months since Rafael Nadal in 2010.
Aryna Sabalenka, the reigning Australian Open champion, Barbora Krejcikova, the Wimbledon champion, and the 2023 US Open runner-up, who was sidelined by damage, are all within the lineup.
As a consequence of damage, American Reilly Opelka, who can be entered by a protected rating, will compete in his first Grand Slam occasion since 2022.
Sloane Stephens and Emma Raducanu on the ladies’s aspect and Daniil Medvedev on the lads’s have been the opposite three former US Open champions that have been listed in the principle occasion.
Raducanu certified for the US Open and the world rankings’ high 100 due to her run to the fourth spherical of Wimbledon.
Previous US Open champions Andy Murray, Dominic Thiem, and Stan Wawrinka for the lads, and Bianca Andreescu, Angelique Kerber, and Naomi Osaka for the ladies, didn’t make the direct acceptance checklist.
As a consequence of accidents sustained by Andreescu, maternity leaves taken by Osaka and Kerber, and the exhaustion of their protected rankings for majors earlier this 12 months, all three of those women missed the US Open final 12 months.
On the ladies’s alternate checklist, Osaka is ranked sixth. Wawrinka is the lads’s seventh alternate, adopted by Murray (26th) and Thiem (36th), who has said that he intends to retire after 2024.
As well as, the US Open subject will encompass 16 wild playing cards, eight males’s and eight girls’s qualifiers, and 16 qualifiers every for the women and men.
