US Open Tennis 2011: Schedule, Seedings and Prize Money
The US Open Tennis tournament for 2011 is scheduled to begin on August 29, and will be held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Park, of Queens, New York City, United States. The final will be held on Sept 9, 2011.
This year, the USTA has increased the prize money at the US Open to a record $23.7 million, up by more than one million dollars, since last year. The top three men’s and top three women’s at the end of the event stand to gain a bonus of $2.6 million in addition to the base purse of $23.7 million, a total potential payout of $26.3 million. A record $1.8 million plus an additional $1 million bonus is up for grabs for both the men’s and women’s US Open singles champions.
The reigning men’s champion is Spain’s Rafael Nadal, while the reigning women’s champion is Belgium’s Kim Clijsters.
Barring 29th ranked player, Canada’s Milos Raionic, who has withdrawn from this year’s event, the 32 mens’ seeds stick faithfully to the ATP rankings. World number 33, Crotia’s Ivan Dogic is the benificiary of Raonic’s withdrawal; Dodig is seeded 32nd.
The complete list of men’s singles seeds is as under:
- Novak Djokovic, Serbia
- Rafael Nadal, Spain
- Roger Federer, Switzerland
- Andy Murray, Great Britain
- David Ferrer, Spain
- Robin Soderlng, Sweden
- Gael Monfils, France
- Mardy Fish, USA
- Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic
- Nicolas Almagro, Spain
- Jo-Wilfred Tsonga, France
- Gilles Simon, France
- Richard Gasquet, France
- Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland
- Viktor Troicki, Serbia
- Mikhail Youzhny, Russia
- Juregn Melzer, Austria
- Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina
- Fernando Verdasco, Spain
- Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia
- Andy Roddick, USA
- Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukraine
- Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic
- Juan Ignecio Chela, Argentina
- Feliciano Lopez, Spain
- Florian Mayer, Germany
- Marin Cilic, Croatia
- John Isner, USA
- Michael Llodra, France
- Ivan Ljubicic, Croatia
- Marcel Granollers, Spain
- Ivan Dodig, Croatia
Among the women’s singles players, defending champion and world number three, Belgium’s Kim Clijsters, and number 30, Russia’s Alisa Klybanova, have withdrawn from the tournament, and the seedings which adhere to world rankings are:
- Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark
- Vera Zvonereva, Russia
- Maria Sharapova, Russia
- Victoria Azarenka, Belarus
- Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic
- Li Na, China
- Francesca Schiavone, Italy
- Marion Bartoli, France
- Samantha Stosur, Australia
- Andrea Petkovic, Germany
- Jelena Jankovic, Serbia
- Agnieska Radwanska, Poland
- Peng Shuai, China
- Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia
- Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia
- Ana Ivanovic, Serbia
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia
- Roberta Vinci, Italy
- Julia Gorges, Germany
- Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium
- Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia
- Sabine Lisicki, Germany
- Shahar Pe’er, Israel
- Nadia Petrova, Russia
- Maria Kirilenko, Russia
- Flavia Pennetta, Italy
- Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic
- Serena Williams, USA
- Jarmila Gajdosova, Australia
- Anabel Medina Garrigues, Spain
- Kaia Kanepi, Estonia
- Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Spain
Category: Match Time, Tennis, US Open
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