The Philippine Star
August 23, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — Carlos Alcaraz was placed on a US Open collision course with Novak Djokovic on Thursday because the draw for the lads’s and ladies’s singles tournaments had been revealed.
Spanish star Alcaraz faces a doubtlessly awkward path to the ultimate the place a potential showdown with world No. 1 Jannik Sinner might be ready at Flushing Meadows.
Alcaraz, who may supplant Sinner as world No. 1 relying on ends in New York over the subsequent fortnight, must hit the bottom operating ranging from Sunday.
Prime seed and defending champion Sinner in the meantime will start his marketing campaign towards Czech Vit Kopriva within the opening spherical.
Within the ladies’s singles draw, world No. 1 and defending Aryna Sabalenka will open her marketing campaign towards Switzerland’s Rebeka Masarova, the world No. 109.
Second seed Iga Swiatek, the reigning Wimbledon champion and 2022 US Open winner, is on the opposite facet of the draw and begins her bid for a seventh Grand Slam singles title towards Colombia’s Emiliana Arango.