US Open Tennis 2015 Schedule: TV, Live Stream Info for Monday's Draw

The 2015 U.S. Open gets underway on Monday, August 31 in New York and both No. 1 seeds will be in action. The biggest storyline in this year's tournament has to be Serena Williams' quest to sweep the Grand Slam events during this calendar year.

If she wins, it'll be her 22nd Grand Slam title (five in a row), seventh U.S. Open championship, and that would include victories in each of the last three years.

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Benjamin Morris and Carl Bialik of FiveThirtyEight Sports penned an interesting piece questioning if Williams' post-30 accomplishments make her the greatest of all time. ELO ratings are used to compare Williams to the likes of Chris Evert, Margaret Court, Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf.

It's an interesting way to ask a question of which there's no definitive answer. While Morris and Bialik aren't sure Williams is the GOAT, they clearly acknowledge her greatness. They wrote:

"While she may be unlikely to ever take the top spot in the women’s tennis hierarchy—at least as far as recursive Bayesian ratings algorithms are concerned—she’s still young enough to accomplish a lot more in the game, and old enough to deserve extra credit for it."

Her journey at the 2015 U.S. Open begins in an afternoon match against Vitalia Diatchenko. It's hard to imagine Williams losing in the first round of a Grand Slam, but it's especially difficult to fathom Diatchenko beating the game's best player.

Diatchenko has lost her last three matches. In a not-so bold prediction, I'm predicting that streak will hit four on Monday. Here's a look at Monday's lineup of matches with seeded players as well as the viewing info for the day, per USOpen.org.

Time and Channels: 1-6 p.m., ESPN; 6-11 p.m., ESPN2 (All times are Eastern)

Live Stream: WatchESPN beginning at 11 a.m.

The following list is not the order of play. Click here to see the schedule.

• No. 1 Novak Djokovic vs. Joao Souza
• No. 4 Kei Nishikori vs. Benoit Paire
• No. 7 David Ferrer vs. Radu Albot    
• No. 8 Rafael Nadal vs. Borna Coric    
• No. 9 Marin Cilic vs. Guido Pella
• No. 10 Milos Raonic vs. Tim Smyczek
• No. 14 David Goffin vs. Simone Bolelli
• No. 16 Gael Monfils vs. Illya Marchenko
• No. 17 Grigor Dimitrov vs. Matthew Ebden     
• No. 18 Feliciano Lopez vs. Nikoloz Basilashvili
• No. 19 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga vs. Jarkko Nieminen
• No. 23 Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Pierre-Hugues Herbert    
• No. 25 Andreas Seppi vs. Tommy Paul
• No. 26 Tommy Robredo vs. Michael Berrer    
• No. 27 Jeremy Chardy vs. Ryan Shane
• No. 32 Fabio Fognini vs. Steve Johnson

Women's Singles

• No. 1 Serena Williams vs. Vitalia Diatchenko 
• Daria Kasatkina (replacing No. 3 Maria Sharapova) vs. Daria Gavrilova
• No. 7 Ana Ivanovic vs. Dominika Cibulkova
• No. 8 Karolina Pliskova vs. Anna Tatishvili
• No. 10 Carla Suarez Navarro vs. Denisa Allertova
• No. 12 Belinda Bencic vs. Sesil Karatantcheva
• No. 13 Ekaterina Makarova vs. Teliana Pereira
• No. 15 Agnieszka Radwanska vs. Katerina Siniakova
• No. 17 Elina Svitolina vs. Elizaveta Kulichkova
• No. 19 Madison Keys vs. Klara Koukalova
• No. 21 Jelena Jankovic vs. Oceane Dodin
• No. 23 Venus Williams vs. Monica Puig
• No. 25 Eugenie Bouchard vs. Alison Riske
• No. 29 Sloane Stephens vs. Coco Vandeweghe
• No. 30 Svetlana Kuznetsova vs. Kristina Mladenovic
• No. 31 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Magdalena Rybarikova

Djokovic is No Joke

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Williams is getting a lot of attention—and its warranted—but Djokovic is having a great year as well. If the men's top seed wins the 2015 U.S. Open, he'll have won all but one Grand Slam this year.

Djokovic isn't heading into the U.S. Open with a great deal of momentum. He failed to capture wins in tune-up tournaments in Montreal and Cincinnati where he fell to Andy Murray and Roger Federer, respectively.

Even with the defeats, Djokovic's confidence seems to be high. Per ATPWorldTour.com, Djokovic said:

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Of course, I did want to win both in Canada and Cincinnati, but it didn’t happen. But they (Murray and Federer) deserved to win because they were better players on the court. It only changes in terms of me understanding what I did wrong, what has happened in those matches, analyzing it, talking with my team, with my coach especially. Trying to develop the right approach to prepare myself and to get better.

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In Grand Slams, few have been better than Djokovic in 2015. His lone loss in one of the previous three came at the French Open to Stan Wawrinka in the final.

Djokovic takes on Joao Souza in the most high-profile evening match. Souza has lost his last four singles matches, and like Diatchenko, all signs point to that losing streak being extended on Monday night.