* News from : http://tinyurl.com/y79bo4y7 (Tennis World USA)
US Open, hard courts (28 August-10 September 2017) Six withdrawals at the
moment in the last Grand Slam event of the year. Serena Williams, Laura
Siegemund, Yaroslava Shvedova, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Kristina Kucova and
Mandy Minella won't play due to injury or maternity.
Angelique Kerber will be the defending champion, and so she will have to try
to defend 2,000 points in order not to drop even more in the Rankings (she is
World No. 3 at the moment). The new World No. 1 Karolina Pliskova leads the
field, while Simona Halep will try to reach her first final in New York.
The World No. 105 Julia Boserup is the last to enter directly, but five
players used the protected ranking: Victoria Azarenka, who came back to
compete last month after becoming mother in December, and then Sabine
Lisicki, Anna-Lena Friedsam, Alja Tomljanovic and Sloane Stephens, who all
come back from injuries that forced them to stay out of the competition for a
long time.
World No. 171 Maria Sharapova will be forced to play qualies unless she will
be awarded with a wild card, which is very unlikely.
* Women's main draw entry list:
1 Karolina Pliskova CZE
2 Simona Halep ROU
3 Angelique Kerber GER
4 Johanna Konta GBR
5 Garbine Muguruza ESP
6 Elina Svitolina UKR
7 Caroline Wozniacki DEN
8 Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS
9 Venus Williams USA
10 Agnieszka Radwanska POL
11 Dominika Cibulkova SVK
12 Jelena Ostapenko LAT
13 Kristina Mladenovic FRA
14 Petra Kvitova CZE
15 Madison Keys USA
16 Anastasija Sevastova LAT
17 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS
18 Elena Vesnina RUS
19 Caroline Garcia FRA
20 Coco Vandeweghe USA
21 Ana Konjuh CRO
22 Timea Bacsinszky SUI
23 Daria Gavrilova USA
24 Barbora Strycova CZE
25 Mirjana Lucic-Baroni CRO
26 Lauren Davis USA
27 Shuai Zhang CHN
28 Lesia Tsurenko UKR
29 Shuai Peng CHN
30 Daria Kasatkina RUS
31 Anett Kontaveit EST
32 Magdalena Rybarikova SVK
33 Carla Suárez Navarro ESP
34 Kiki Bertens NED
35 Roberta Vinci ITA
36 Samantha Stosur AUS
37 Alison Riske USA
38 Catherine Bellis USA
40 Kristyna Pliskova CZE
41 Lucie Safarova CZE
42 Timea Babos HUN
43 Katerina Siniakova CZE
44 Julia Goerges GER
45 Alizé Cornet FRA
46 Yulia Putintseva UKR
47 Johanna Larsson SWE
48 Naomi Osaka JPN
49 Mona Barthel GER
50 Qiang Wang CHN
51 Donna Vekic CRO
52 Sorana Cirstea ROU
53 Oceane Dodin USA
54 Elise Mertens BEL
55 Monica Niculescu ROU
56 Ashleigh Barty AUS
57 Irina-Camelia Begu ROU
58 Ekaterina Makarova RUS
59 Christina McHale USA
60 Lara Arruabarrena ESP
61 Shelby Rogers USA
62 Ying-Ying Duan CHN
63 Varvara Lepchenko USA
64 Natalia Vikhlyantseva RUS
65 Carina Witthoeft GER
66 Tatjana Maria GER
67 Monica Puig POR
68 Eugenie Bouchard CAN
69 Jelena Jankovic SRB
70 Saisai Zheng CHN
71 Camila Giorgi ITA
72 Misaki Doi JPN
73 Francesca Schiavone ITA
74 Madison Brengle USA
75 Marketa Vondrousova RUS
76 Risa Ozaki JPN
77 Magda Linette SWE
78 Heather Watson GBR
79 Jennifer Brady USA
80 Beatriz Haddad Maia BRA
81 Yanina Wickmayer BEL
82 Veronica Cepede Royg PAR
83 Evgeniya Rodina RUS
84 Kirsten Flipkens BEL
85 Sara Errani ITA
86 Nao Hibino JPN
87 Petra Martic CRO
88 Jana Cepelova CZE
89 Ekaterina Alexandrova RUS
90 Aleksandra Krunic SRB
91 Maria Sakkari GRE
92 Andrea Petkovic GER
93 Sara Sorribes Tormo ESP
94 Kurumi Nara JPN
95 Richel Hogenkamp NED
96 Aliaksandra Sasnovich BLR
97 Alison Van Uytvanck BEL
98 Ons Jabeur TUN
99 Viktorija Golubic SUI
100 Julia Boserup USA
101 Victoria Azarenka BLR (PR)
102 Sloane Stephens USA (PR)
103 Anna-Lena Friedsam GER (PR)
104 Sabine Lisicki GER (PR)
105 Alja Tomljanovic CRO (PR)
Alternates
1. Denisa Allertova CZE
2. Pauline Parmentier FRA
3. Ana Bogdan ROU