From August 28 to September 10, the US Open will be held in New York. As usual, this Grand Slam is the last Major of the season. In men’s singles, seven Russians have entered the US Open draw and 14 Russians will represent the country in women’s singles.
Men. Daniil Medvedev (third favourite)
Medvedev is the only Russian representative at the current US Open who has already won this tournament. In the 2021 final, Daniil defeated Novak Djokovic in three sets: 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. A year ago he reached the round of 16, where he lost in four games to Nick Kyrgios. Russia’s first racket will start a new attempt to win the title with a match against the 34-year-old Hungarian Attila Balazs, who put into the net according to the protected classification. Now Balazs is not in the world ranking. In the 2023 season he played only one match at the main draw level of the ATP tournaments and was defeated.
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Andrei Rublev (8)
Rublev still cannot reach the semifinals of the Grand Slam tournaments. The Russian has already reached the quarterfinals at the majors eight times, and each time he was defeated. Three of those failures came at the US Open, including last year. This time Andrey will start the tournament with a match against 24-year-old Finn Emil Ruusuvuori. In personal matches, the advantage is on the side of our compatriot: 2-1. At the same time, in 2023, the rivals defeated each other once. Rublev turned out to be stronger at the Australian Open and Ruusuvuori got his revenge at the Cincinnati Masters.
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Karen Khachanov (11)
Khachanov returns to the field after a three-month absence. Due to injury, the Russian did not play at Roland Garros, missing Wimbledon in particular. A year ago, Karen reached the semifinals of the US Open. This season he also has good results in TBSH: Australian Open-semifinals, Roland Garros-quarterfinals. Khachanov’s first opponent in New York will be 25-year-old American Michael Mmo, who has been given a wild card into the tournament. This will be his first head-to-head match.
roman safiullin
Safiullin is the author of one of the most outstanding sensations of Wimbledon 2023. In that tournament, the 26-year-old Russian reached the quarterfinals, where he lost to Yannick Sinner; this is how Roman made his debut in the main draw of the Grass Major. At the US Open he will also play the main event for the first time. Safiullina’s opponent in the first round is 30-year-old Italian Marco Chekkinato. Previously, the tennis players had never played each other.
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aslan karatsev
At the 2021 Australian Open, Karatsev sensationally reached the semifinals, but hasn’t come close to this achievement since. His best result at the US Open is to reach the third round in 2021. The Russian will start the current US Open with the 21-year-old Czech Jiri Legechka. Before Karatsev and Legechka did not meet on the court.
Alexander Shevchenko
This year, the 22-year-old Shevchenko made her TBSh main draw debut. At Roland Garros she reached the second round, but at Wimbledon she lost in the first match. The draw at the US Major presented the Russian with a difficult opponent in the first round. Alexander will face Britain’s Cameron Norrie, who is ranked 16th. This will be his first meeting.
Pavel Kotov
Kotov never made it past the first round barrier on TBSh. The three previous attempts at the main draw in the majors have ended in first-round losses, including at the US Open – 2022. This time, Pavel will start the tournament with a match with 22-year-old Australian of Japanese origin Rinki Hijikata. , which used the wildcard. Previously, Kotov and Hijikata did not face each other.
Women. Daria Kasatkina (13)
The first racket from Russia is not very successful in the big hard leagues. In her entire career, she only reached the fourth round at the US Open once: in 2018. And at the Australian Open, Kasatkina also failed to do so, despite reaching the semifinals at Roland Garros and at Wimbledon, in 1/ 4. This time, Daria’s first rival will be 22-year-old American Alicia Parks. This will be her first head-to-head match.
Lyudmila Samsonova (14)
A year ago, Samsonova reached the fourth round of the US Open, and this was a repeat of her best result in the majors (after Wimbledon 2021). The Russian will begin the current tournament with a match against Claire Liu, 23, the representative of the United States. The tennis players have already played with each other, and this season. In the first round in Abu Dhabi, Samsonova won a resounding 3:6, 6:2, 6:0 victory.
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Veronica Kudermetova (16)
Kudermetova is not doing very well this season. The Russian started in the ninth racket in the world, but then fell to 16th place. However, it was at the US Open that Veronika showed the best result of her career on TBSh. A year ago she reached the round of 16 here, where she lost to Ons Jaber. The US Open 2023 Kudermetova will kick off with a match against 28-year-old Bernarda Pera (USA), whom she already knows how to beat. The personal meeting score is 2-1 in favor of the Russians.
Ekaterina Alexandrova (22)
At Wimbledon 2023, Alexandrova reached the fourth round of the TSH for the first time in her career. The Russian showed good form on the grass-court season and won the title by defeating Veronica Kudermetova in the final in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. In the tough “thousand” in Cincinnati she lost in the first round, but in Cleveland she reached the final. In New York, Ekaterina’s first opponent will be 2021 US Open finalist Leila Fernández, who will turn 21 during the current tournament. In the 2022 season, the rivals met twice, earning one win each.
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Anastasia Potapova (27)
The US Open is the only Grand Slam tournament in which Potapova has not yet reached the third round. The rival of the Russians in the first round will be the Danish representative Clara Tauson, 20 years old. Anastasia hadn’t played with her before.
Anna Blinkova
In the 2023 season, Blinkova reached the third round of the Grand Slam tournaments twice in a row, at Roland Garros and Wimbledon. However, this time it will be difficult to do it, since the potential rival of the Russian in the second round is the second racket in the world, Arina Sobolenko. And in the opening match, Anna will face 24-year-old Briton Jody Burrage. Previously, tennis players did not cross each other on the court.
Elina Avanesian
At Roland Garros, the 20-year-old Avanesyan delivered an upset by reaching the fourth round. This was the second major league main draw appearance for him. A year ago, the Russian lost in the first round of the US Open. And this time he will open the tournament with a meeting with the French Alize Cornet, 33 years old, former 11th racket in the world, with whom he had never played before.
Mirra Andreeva
Andreeva, 16, finalist of the junior US Open – 2023, has already shown that she is capable of going far on the grid of the majors for adults. At Roland Garros in 2023, the young Russian reached the third round, and at Wimbledon, she reached the fourth. In addition, she showed these results in qualifying status and has already entered the US Open draw by rating. Who Mirra will play in the first round, will be known later. The draw determined her to compete with the qualifier: Olivia Gadeki from Australia.
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Camila Rakhimova
The best performance of Rakhimova’s career on TBSH was reaching the third round. She achieved this result at the US Open-2021 and at Wimbledon this year. The Russian, who will turn 22 on August 28, on the first day of the tournament, will play the round of 16 with Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion Belinda Bencic, seed number 15. This will be her first meeting.
Anna Kalinskaya
Kalinskaya will try for the first time to reach the third round of the TSH. At the US Open she reached the second round three times, but at the other three majors she did not win a single main draw match. This time her first opponent will be the Czech Katerzhina Sinyakova, racket number 47 in the world in singles, but world ranking leader in doubles. They had not faced each other before.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Pavlyuchenkova, a finalist at Roland Garros 2021, reached the quarterfinals this time in Paris. And she then she completely skipped marijuana season. In the summer, Anastasia competed in two small clay tournaments and reached the final in 125 nick in Contrexéville (France). And in the Cincinnati “Thousand” she lost in the first round. At the US Open, the first rival of the Russian will be the qualifier: the American Fiona Crowley.
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Tatiana Prozorova (Q)
Prozorova (née Barkova), 19, made her professional tour debut this year. Her statistics in official matches of hers at the level of the main draws of the WTA tournaments are one win and two losses. Tatyana entered the TBSH main draw for the first time. In the US Open qualifying final she beat Tamara Zidansek 7:6 (13:11), 3:6, 7:6 (10:8). The Russians’ opponent in the first round was Caroline Wozniacki, who received a wild card from the organizers.
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Vera Zvonareva (Q)
The 38-year-old Russian tennis legend made his main draw debut at the US Open in 2002 and then reached the third round. In the 2010 season he became a tournament finalist, losing in the decisive match to Kim Clijsters. And this time Zvonareva successfully passed the qualification, beating 22-year-old Japanese Moyuka Uchijima in the final 7:5, 6:3. Vera’s opponent in the first round was lucky loser Janina Wickmayer from Belgium.
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Margarita Betova (SR)
Betova (née Gasparyan) is still trying to get back on tour after the birth of her son. The 28-year-old has yet to win a match this season, having suffered eight losses in tournaments at various levels. His first rival at the US Open was the winner of the qualification: the British Yuriko Mayazaki.
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