HOW THE LEADING MEN’S CONTENDERS AND BEST AUSSIE HOPE SHAPE UP FOR THE US OPEN:
CARLOS ALCARAZ (ESP)
Age: 20
Ranking: 1
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize cash: $US20,366,707
Career titles: 12
Grand slam titles: 2 (Wimbledon 2023; US Open 2022)
US Open win-loss document: 11-1
Best US Open end result: champion 2022
The Spanish wunderkind gained final 12 months’s title within the absence of unvaccinated grand slam large Novak Djokovic however proved himself the actual cope with victory over the Serb in an epic Wimbledon title decider in 2023. Seeded to resume their rising rivalry within the remaining.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC (SRB)
Age: 36
Ranking: 2
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize cash: $US172,281,484
Career titles: 95
Grand slam titles: 23 (Australian Open 2008, 2011-2013, 2015-16, 2019-21, 2023; French Open 2016, 2021, 2023; Wimbledon 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022; US Open 2011, 2015, 2018)
US win-loss document: 81-13
Best US Open outcomes: champion 2011, 2015, 2018; finalist 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2021
The nine-times Flushing Meadows finalist is probably the most prolific males’s grand slam winner in tennis historical past following his newest French Open triumph. Now the tremendous Serb is hungry to match Margaret Court’s all-time tally of 24 singles majors with a fourth US Open crown.
DANIIL MEDVEDEV (RUS)
Age: 27
Ranking: 3
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize cash: $US32,512,216
Career titles: 20
Grand slam titles: 1 (US Open 2021)
US Open win-loss document: 23-5
Best US Open outcomes: champion 2021; finalist 2019
The temperamental former world No.1 is flying underneath the radar considerably however is a confirmed performer in New York, as proved by his straight-sets victory over Djokovic within the remaining two years in the past that denied the Serb a calendar-year grand slam sweep.
HOLGER RUNE (DEN)
Age: 20
Ranking: 4
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize cash: $US5,998,617
Career titles: 4
Grand slam titles: 0
US Open win-loss document: 1-2
Best US Open end result: third spherical 2022
The Danish sensation endured a disappointing and disrupted build-up however his plain expertise has been on full show this season, serving to the 20-year-old to a career-high rating contained in the world’s prime 4.
CASPER RUUD (NOR)
Age: 24
Ranking: 5
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize cash: $US15,776,012
Career titles: 10
Grand slam titles: 0
US Open win-loss document: 9-5
Best US Open end result: finalist 2022
Nine of the Scandinavian’s 10 profession titles have come on clay, the opposite on a tough court docket, but it surely’s harmful to dismiss the possibilities of any participant who has made three grand slam finals in 13 months – two in Paris and final 12 months in New York.
JANNIK SINNER (ITA)
Age: 21
Ranking: 6
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize cash: $US10,708,198
Career titles: 8
Grand slam titles: 0
US Open win-loss document: 7-4
Best US Open end result: quarter-finalist 2022
The Italian tremendous expertise returns to Flushing Meadows filled with perception a 12 months after falling to eventual champion Alcaraz in a titanic quarter-final dubbed the match of the season. Fresh off profitable his maiden ATP Masters 1000 title in Toronto and having fun with a career-best rating.
BEST OUTSIDER
STEFANOS TSITSIPAS (GRE)
Age: 25
Ranking: 7
Plays: right-handed
Career prize cash: $US27,012,973
Career titles: 10
Grand slam titles: 0
US Open win-loss document: 5-5
Best US Open outcomes: third spherical 2020, 2021
The Greek famous person stays the very best participant but to win a grand slam males’s singles title following a second runner-up displaying to Djokovic, this time in Melbourne, after letting a two-set lead slip finally 12 months’s French Open. Seems inevitable he’ll break via sooner or later.
BEST AUSSIE HOPE
ALEX DE MINAUR
Age: 24
Ranking: 13
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize cash: $US10,141,954
Career titles: 7
Grand slam titles: 0
US Open win-loss document: 11-6
Best US Open end result: quarter-finalist 2020
With 4 top-10 scalps, a seventh ATP title and a career-high rating of twelfth already this season, the tenacious baseliner looms as a participant to keep away from on his favorite and quick Flushing Meadows onerous courts. Proved together with his run to the final eight three years in the past that he can go deep.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
