2025 US Open draw: Novak Djokovic-Carlos Alcaraz, Coco Gauff-Iga Swiatek in same halves

NEW YORK—The 2025 US Open men’s and women’s singles draws were revealed at noon ET on Thursday, with defending champions Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka both serving as top seeds.

Sinner will play his first round against Vit Kopriva with a potential meeting with 2024 National Bank Open champion Alexei Popryin looming in the second round.

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No. 14 seed Tommy Paul could face Sinner in the fourth round for a second straight year, while 2024 semifinalist Jack Draper is Sinner’s projected quarterfinal opponent, seeded fifth.

No. 2 seed Carlos Alcaraz, who will be competing with Sinner for the No. 1 ranking in addition to the US Open title, landed in the same half of the draw as 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic, who is seeded seventh. The 2022 champion will play his first round against big-serving American Reilly Opelka and could face a rematch of his 2023 US Open semifinal against Daniil Medvedev in the fourth round.

Djokovic will be competing for the first time since Wimbledon, where he lost in a third straight Grand Slam semifinal. The former world No. 1 will open against American Learner Tien, with No. 28 seeded American Alex Michelsen looming in the third round.

2024 finalist Taylor Fritz, seeded fourth, is Djokovic's projected quarterfinal opponent. Frances Tiafoe and Holger Rune, seeded No. 17 and No. 11, respectively, are both in Djokovic's section of the draw. A two-time semifinalist, Tiafoe will play his first match against Yoshihito Nishioka, while Rune will face Botic van de Zandschulp.

In the women’s singles draw, Sabalenka will kick off her title defense against Rebeka Masarova. 2021 finalist Leylah Fernandez is her projected third round opponent, the No. 31 seed coming off a title run at the Mubadala Citi DC Open earlier this summer. No. 9 seed Elena Rybakina is her projected fourth round opponent; Rybakina defeated Sabalenka in straight sets last week at the Cincinnati Open.

Sabalenka is in the same half as 2024 finalist Jessica Pegula, who reached the semifinals of the revamped mixed doubles tournament alongside Jack Draper. Pegula will first face Egypt’s Mayar Sherif with No. 5 seed Mirra Andreeva her projected quarterfinal opposition.

No. 2 seed Iga Swiatek and No. 3 seed Coco Gauff headline the bottom half of the draw. The streaking Swiatek fell just short of the mixed doubles title with Casper Ruud, losing to Italians Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori on Wednesday.

Swiatek will kick off her quest for a second US Open title against Colombia’s Emiliana Arango; No. 29 seed Anna Kalinskaya is her projected third round opponent. She could face a dangerous fourth-round opponent in No. 13 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova, who beat Swiatek at last year’s Miami Open.

Wimbledon finalist and No. 8 seed Amanda Anisimova is Swiatek’s projected quarterfinal opponent; the American will play her first round against Australian Kimberly Birrell, and 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin is her first seed on her path to the second week.

Gauff landed in a tricky quarter with Australian Open champion Madison Keys, the No. 6 seed, and two-time champion Naomi Osaka, who is seeded at a major tournament for the first time since returning to action from maternity leave. Osaka, the No. 23 seed, could face Gauff in the fourth round, but Gauff will first have to take on Ajla Tomljanovic in the first round. Tomljanovic famously handed Serena Williams the final defeat of her career at the 2022 US Open.

Gauff’s road only gets tougher in the second round, as she could face Olympic silver medalist Donna Vekic or an in-form Jessica Bouzas Maneiro. No. 28 seed Magdalena Freçh is her projected third round opponent.

In the same quarter, Venus Williams is back in the women’s singles draw for the first time in two years; the wild card former world No. 1 will take on No. 11 seed Karolina Muchova in the first round.

Elsewhere, Omnium Banque Nationale champion Victoria Mboko will play her first major tournament as a seed; the No. 22 will open against two-time Grand Slam champion Barbora Krejcikova.