Serena Top Seed In Open

No. 1 and three-time defending US Open champion Serena Williams has been named the top seed in women’s singles at the 2015 US Open. The 2015 US Open will be played Aug. 31 – Sept. 13 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y.

This is the fourth time that Serena Williams has been the No. 1 seed at the US Open. She won the title on all prior occasions (2002, 2013, and 2014). FollowingWilliams will be No. 2 seed Simona Halep, of Romania, a 2014 French Open finalist; No. 3 and 2006 US Open champion Maria Sharapova,of Russia; No. 4 and 2014 US Open finalist Caroline Wozniacki,of Denmark; No. 5 Petra Kvitova, of the Czech Republic, who won Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014; and No. 6 Lucie Safarova, of the Czech Republic, this year’s French Open finalist.

Victoria Azarenka, of Belarus, who reached the US Open women’s final in 2012 and 2013, is seeded No. 20. Two-time US Open champion Venus Williams is seeded No. 23; 2011 champion Samantha Stosur is seeded 22nd; and 2004 US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, of Russia, is seeded 30th.

Last year, Serena Williams won her sixth US Open crown, tying her with Chris Evert for the most US Open women’s singles titles in the Open Era. This year, Williams is also going for the calendar Grand Slam at the US Open, last won in 1988 by Steffi Graf. Williams won her 21st Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon this summer, which ranks third all-time, just one behind Graf (an Open-era record of 22) and Margaret Court (24 all-time).

2015 US Open Women’s Singles Seeds