By Richard Pagliaro | Thursday, August 21, 2025
Photo Credit: Jon Buckle/Rolex
New York –Aryana Sabalenka Great Mental Mental Mountains beating Jessica Pegula and the American crowd to claim her US US Open girl’s crown last September.
The open drawing of the US 2025 appears with challenging ridges for world No.1 in protecting its title.
The draw was discovered today. Here are our main receipts.
Draw the winners
(2) IgA SWIT (POL)
Strong SwiateThek title directed at Queen City placed it for a kick in the crown in Queens. Winning cincinnati, where she did not throw a set, Swiatek arched Coco Gauff for Seed 2 in New York. The result is a better draw with Sabalenka on the opposite side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju2o-2qoc-u
Wimbledon winner opens against Emiliana Arango with her first possible opponent planted no. 29 Anna Kalinskaya, who possesses a difficult victory over the pole that swiatek was thrown on stage, 6-3, 6-4, in Cincinnati. If you’ve seen the double mixed event in the US Open, then you have seen Swiatek Volley, as well as I have seen its volleyball over the years. Her service has been a fortune on both trips of her title Wimbledon and Cincinnati. If the seeds are true to form Swiattek would face Amanada Animova in an open quarter -finals of the US that would be a final Wimbledon match.
(4) Jessica Pegula (US)
The bad news for Pegula is that she is defending her last 2024 US Open points and after she defeated Swiatek to get the Bad Homburg title in the bar in June, she has gone a weak 2-4.
Good news for J-PEG: She looked happy, healthy and effective in open doubles of mixed doubles and actually played better-in the net and in return-then partner Jack Draper. So this has to inject it with a little confidence after a summer summer. The question is whether the conditions are Windy can Pegula, who plays more than nearly 10 top players, keep the ball in court and go after her shooting? Pegula has a good draw, but there are dangerous players in her quarter including Mirra Andreeva with the fifth seed, former gold medal champion Belinda Bencic and Lieudmila Samsonova often overlooked but very dangerous but very dangerous. Montreal champion Victoria Lurko and the big champion Barbora Krekikova twice are also in this quarter, but given the latest Pegula wars, she should be glad she has a place to move.
(6) Madison Keys (USA)
The Australian Open Champion Keys is capable of high magic and lowest crazy levels, but it has reached the quarter -finals or better on four of its last eight beginnings. Remember, Keys is an open American Finstalist, capable of bringing the best to a collision. Keys, who opens against Renata Zarazua, has reached the US Open semifinal twice (2018 and 2023) since its loss to Buddy Sloane Stephens in the 2017 final. Keys is in a complicated quarter along with the double US Open Champion, Naomi Osaka and the holder of Title 2023, She will only have to face one of them in the quarter-finals-if she gets so far. Keys can still crush high hip hip and her service remains a gun even though she sometimes hits herself in trouble satisfying her back-down-to-line desire than to play that stroke or even below the middle until she can give up
Draw loser
(1) Aryna Sabalenka
Of course, world no. 1 can go all the way if she is in her game. The challenge is that Sabalenka was not sharp in Cincinnati, where she sailed her favored by losing the former Wimbledon Elena Rybakina’s champion – and she is facing the 2,000 -point protection pressure for her open championship in the US 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ujqtxo0jsi
Sabalenka can beat anyone, but her quarter is gathered with Rybakina, who just beat her, 2021 finalist Leylalah Fernandez, who is going outside Washington, Clara Tauson, one of the best servers in sports, and the finalist of Cincinnati Jasmine Paolini, fierce first. However, Sabalenka has reached the semifinals or better in nine out of her last 10 appearances, so she remains preferred – it’s just her way, on paper, is much tougher than 2022 Champion Swiatek.
(3) Coco Gauff (USA)
Some are colliding with the Matt Daly axis coach to the US open to bring biomechanical coach Gavin Macmillan, who helped Sabalenka once strangely serve.
Personally, I cannot blame Gauff, given the agile state of her service and the importance of her hunt for a second open US title. She wrapped 43 double mistakes in three games in Montreal, including a 23 doubles that blows in mind against Danielle Collins, which she still managed to beat. Gauff runs the tour with double mistakes and knows better than all of us, you can’t win the US Open by coughing 20-plus in a match. This is a catastrophe recipe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFAGNB0TQAC
That is to say, can Gafff make enough progress with Macmillan in four days to refine than to completely rebuild it? In today’s practice, the pair also placed a lot of work on the front swinging of the gaff.
Consider that Gauff is often in her best tennis playing instinctual, so you need to ask yourself if the changes she is making in practice can cause paralysis by analyzing and making it reversed it? Service is a real problem, but there are other challenges. Gauff has gone 4-4 since she gathered Sabalenka to win her second major championship in Roland Garros. GAUFF quarter includes Madison Keys and Naomi Osaka and it opens against Aussie Ajla Tomljanovic, which handed Serena Williams to her latest loss to US Open. Her speed, bold and competitiveness make Guff a threat whenever she goes to trial, but given everything that is happening, it is a great request to expect a deep run here.
Emma Raducanu (GBR)
The Open Open 2021 champion played one of the most dramatic WTA matches this season nearly knocking No.1 Aryna Sabalenka from Cincinnat just a few weeks after Raducanu led Belarus to both groups before bending to Wimledon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9c8qy1oizy
Working with former coach Mark Petchey, Raducanu rediscovered joy in her game. In this draw, she may face some dangerous energy players, including Veronika Kuddermeva in the second round followed by a possible third round meeting with Elena Rybakina with the ninth seed which Raducanu press in their single meeting. Raducanu is playing its best tennis in the years this season, but this draw presents major obstacles for a favorite of the fans.
The first siege to see
(11) Carolina Muchova (cze) vs (toilet) Venus Williams (USA)
Head to head: Muchova runs 1-0
In Tenis Pro, you often don’t get what you deserve, you get what you get. What 45-year-old Venus Williams received her possible farewell is a very difficult task against the talent of the entire Muchova court, who defeated the US Open 6-3, 7-5 championship in the first round of Open 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub-4p2ydwgi
The duo faced the doubles this week with Muchova and Andrey Rublev beating Williams and Reilly Opelka. This can be a night match with New York fans greeting the legendary Venus 25 years after she won her US US Open daughter.
(14) Clara Tauson (Den) vs Alexandra Eala (PHI)
Head -to -head: first meeting
Tauson is one of the best servers on the WTA tournament and showed that Iga Swiatek and Madison Keys in a row to reach the Montreal semifinal, where she ended with gas against Naomi Osaka earlier this month. 20-year-old Eala sparked Miami Open Jelena Ostapenko, Madison Keys, Paula Badosa and Swiatek on the way to the semifinals. Left -handed Ela is a favorite for a crowd with a skill for The Line Line Kill Strike. Tauson VS Eala’s return service will be a key component for the outcome here.
Barbora Prekikova (CZE) VS (22) Victoria Lill (Can)
The first meeting
Grand Slam champion Krekikova can twice be mixed with rolls and speed and is also a great volume. 18-year-old Lundoco lit up her birthplace by collecting Naomi Osaka to win Montreal this month. Lurko made history as the youngest woman in the history of WTA to defeat four Grand Slam-Sofia Kenin, Coco Guff, Elena Rybakina and Osaka’s way to a championship. Only the legendary legend Serena Williams, who was a 17-year-old Dynamo dressed in a canary-colored Puma gown when she overthrew four big samples, including the World Martina Hingis to win the 1999 US Open, was younger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLDWQ-T9XU
This match marks the speed of all the judges of Kishkikova against the speed and protective blindness of Mboko, but Canadian plays not just running and chase, it is fearless running the ball below the line. Lundoco wounded the ankle by colliding in court in her victory over Rybakina and bypassed Cincinnati to rest and recover so that health could be a factor here.
Ashlyn Krueger (USA) vs (26) Sofia Kenin (USA)
Head-to-head: even 1-1
Former Australian champion Open Kenin won their only difficult clash, 6-4, 6-4 in Doha earlier this year. Trained by Michael Joyce, Krueger posted a win over Elena Rybakina, Daria Kasatkina and Leylalah Fernandez this season. Kenin used her cunning fall well in their last meeting and that could be a major shock in the match.
