US Open Tennis 2011 Draw: Previewing the Tournament
The 130th edition of the U.S. Open begins on begins on Monday, August 29 and runs for nearly two weeks until Sunday, September 11.
Most of the big names will be competing in the event. However, Kim Clijsters has withdrawn due to an abdominal strain.
Venus Williams and Serena Williams have been fighting through injuries, but both have insisted that they will be good to go for the U.S. Open.
On the men's side, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer have conceded the No. 1 seed to Novak Djokovic.
Andy Roddick is in the midst of a free fall and will likely be seeded outside the top 10, while fellow American Mardy Fish has been playing much better. Fish just recently knocked off Nadal before losing to Andy Murray in the semifinals of the Cincinnati Open and is the only hope for the Americans on the men's side.
Here is the complete draws courtesy of the official website of the US Open:
| Novak Djokovic SRB (1) | vs | Qualifier |
| Pere Riba ESP | vs | Carlos Berlocq ARG |
| Potito Starace ITA | vs | Michael Berrer GER |
| Nikolay Davydenko RUS | vs | Ivan Dodiq CRO |
| Alexandr Dolgopolov UKR (22) | vs | Frederico Gil POR |
| Kei Nishikori JPN | vs | Flavio Cipolla ITA |
| Ivo Karlovic CRO | vs | Fernando Gonzalez CHI |
| Sergiy Stakhovsky UKR | vs | Richard Gasquet FRA (13) |
| Tomas Berdych CZE (9) | vs | Qualifier |
| Fabio Fognini ITA | vs | Horacio Zeballos ARG |
| Philipp Petzschner GER | vs | Albert Ramos ESP |
| Qualifier | vs | Janko Tipsarevic SRB (20) |
| Marcel Granollers ESP (31) | vs | Xavier Malisse BEL |
| Mikhail Kukushkin KAZ | vs | Albert Montanes ESP |
| Pablo Andujar ESP | vs | Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP |
| Grigor Dimitrov BUL | vs | Gael Monfils FRA (7) |
| Roger Federer SUI (3) | vs | Santiago Giraldo COL |
| Dudi Sela ISR | vs | Thomaz Bellucci BRA |
| Qualifier | vs | Bernard Tomic AUS |
| Ryan Harrison USA | vs | Marin Cilic CRO (27) |
| Radek Stepanek CZE (23) | vs | Philipp Kohlschreiber GER |
| Juan Monaco ARG | vs | Andreas Seppi ITA |
| Tommy Haas GER | vs | Qualifier |
| Alejandro Falla COL | vs | Viktor Troicki SRB (15) |
| Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA (11) | vs | Yen-Hsun Lu TPE |
| Andreas Haider-Maurer AUT | vs | Qualifier |
| Qualifier | vs | Qualifier |
| Jarkko Nieminen FIN | vs | Fernando Verdasco ESP (19) |
| Michael Llodra FRA (29) | vs | Victor Hanescu ROU |
| Kevin Anderson RSA | vs | Qualifier |
| Qualifier | vs | Thiemo de Bakker NED |
| Tobias Kamke GER | vs | Mardy Fish USA (8) |
| Robin Soderling SWE (6) | vs | Qualifier |
| Alex Bogomolov Jr. USA | vs | Steve Johnson USA |
| Robby Ginepri USA | vs | Qualifier |
| Marcos Baghdatis CYP | vs | John Isner USA (28) |
| Juan Martin Del Potro ARG (18) | vs | Filippo Volandri ITA |
| Diego Junqueira ARG | vs | Karol Beck SVK |
| Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP | vs | Daniel Gimeno-Traver ESP |
| Ricardo Mello BRA | vs | Gilles Simon FRA (12) |
| Stanislas Wawrinka SUI (14) | vs | Maximo Gonzalez ARG |
| Donald Young USA | vs | Qualifier |
| Dmitry Tursunov RUS | vs | Steve Darcis BEL |
| Marinko Matosevic AUS | vs | Juan Ignacio Chela ARG (24) |
| Feliciano Lopez ESP (25) | vs | Tatsuma Ito JPN |
| Qualifier | vs | Lukas Rosol CZE |
| Rui Machado POR | vs | Robin Haase NED |
| Somdev Devvarman IND | vs | Andy Murray GBR (4) |
| David Ferrer ESP (5) | vs | Igor Andreev RUS |
| James Blake USA | vs | Qualifier |
| Olivier Rochus BEL | vs | Qualifier |
| Adrian Mannarino FRA | vs | Florian Mayer GER (26) |
| Andy Roddick USA (21) | vs | Michael Russell USA |
| Jack Sock USA | vs | Marc Gicquel FRA |
| Denis Istomin UZB | vs | Ryan Sweeting USA |
| Julien Benneteau FRA | vs | Nicolas Almagro ESP (10) |
| Mikhail Youzhny RUS (16) | vs | Ernests Gulbis LAT |
| Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA | vs | Gilles Muller LUX |
| Matthias Bachinger GER | vs | Igor Kunitsyn RUS |
| Eric Prodon FRA | vs | Jurgen Melzer AUT (17) |
| Ivan Ljubicic CRO (30) | vs | Blaz Kavcic SLO |
| Bobby Reynolds USA | vs | David Nalbandian ARG |
| Nicolas Mahut FRA | vs | Qualifier |
| Andrey Golubev KAZ | vs | Rafael Nadal ESP (2) |
| Caroline Wozniacki DEN (1) | vs | Nuria Llagostera Vives ESP |
| Arantxa Rus NED | vs | Elena Vesnina RUS |
| Vania King USA | vs | Greta Arn HUN |
| Iveta Benesova CZE | vs | Jarmila Gajdosova AUS (29) |
| Daniela Hantuchova SVK (21) | vs | Pauline Parmentier FRA |
| Akgul Amanmuradova UZB | vs | Tamira Paszek AUT |
| Jamie Hampton USA | vs | Elena Baltacha GBR |
| Sara Errani ITA | vs | Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS (15) |
| Andrea Petkovic GER (10) | vs | Qualifier |
| Qualifier | vs | Jie Zheng CHN |
| Casey Dellacqua AUS | vs | Alize Cornet FRA |
| Irina-Camelia Begu ROU | vs | Roberta Vinci ITA (18) |
| Kaia Kanepi EST (31) | vs | Tamarine Tanasugarn THA |
| Kimiko Date-Krumm JPN | vs | Qualifier |
| Mathilde Johansson FRA | vs | Carla Suarez Navarro ESP |
| Simona Halep ROU | vs | Na Li CHN (6) |
| Victoria Azarenka BLR (4) | vs | Johanna Larsson SWE |
| Rebecca Marino CAN | vs | Gisela Dulko ARG |
| Qualifier | vs | Eleni Daniilidou GRE |
| Bojana Jovanovski SRB | vs | Serena Williams USA (28) |
| Shahar Peer ISR (23) | vs | Sania Mirza IND |
| Qualifier | vs | Sloane Stephens USA |
| Evgeniya Rodina RUS | vs | Petra Cetkovska CZE |
| Ksenia Pervak RUS | vs | Ana Ivanovic SRB (16) |
| Jelena Jankovic SRB (11) | vs | Alison Riske USA |
| Jelena Dokic AUS | vs | Olga Govortsova BLR |
| Petra Martic CRO | vs | Barbora Zahlavova Strycova CZE |
| Anna Tatishvili GEO | vs | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS (17) |
| Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez ESP (32) | vs | Mona Barthel GER |
| Chanelle Scheepers RSA | vs | Anne Keothavong GBR |
| Mirjana Lucic CRO | vs | Qualifier |
| Qualifier | vs | Francesca Schiavone ITA (7) |
| Petra Kvitova CZE (5) | vs | Alexandra Dulgheru ROU |
| Patricia Mayr-Achleitner AUT | vs | Monica Niculescu ROU |
| Jill Craybas USA | vs | Madison Keys USA |
| Magdalena Rybarikova SVK | vs | Lucie Safarova CZE (27) |
| Yanina Wickmayer BEL (20) | vs | Sorana Cirstea ROU |
| Alla Kudryavtseva RUS | vs | Anastasia Rodionova AUS |
| Lauren Davis USA | vs | Angelique Kerber GER |
| Qualifier | vs | Agnieszka Radwanska POL (12) |
| Shuai Peng CHN (13) | vs | Varvara Lepchenko USA |
| Virginie Razzano FRA | vs | Tsvetana Pironkova BUL |
| Misaki Doi JPN | vs | Laura Pous-Tio ESP |
| Kristina Barrois GER | vs | Julia Goerges GER (19) |
| Flavia Pennetta ITA (26) | vs | Aravane Rezai FRA |
| Melanie Oudin USA | vs | Qualifier |
| Anastasiya Yakimova BLR | vs | Qualifier |
| Heather Watson GBR | vs | Maria Sharapova RUS (3) |
| Marion Bartoli FRA (8) | vs | Qualifier |
| Christina McHale USA | vs | Qualifier |
| Vera Dushevina RUS | vs | Anastasija Sevastova LAT |
| Ekaterina Makarova RUS | vs | Maria Kirilenko RUS (25) |
| Nadia Petrova RUS (24) | vs | Qualifier |
| Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA | vs | Polona Hercog SLO |
| Coco Vandeweghe USA | vs | Alberta Brianti ITA |
| Sofia Arvidsson SWE | vs | Samantha Stosur AUS (9) |
| Dominika Cibulkova SVK (14) | vs | Shuai Zhang CHN |
| Klara Zakopalova CZE | vs | Irina Falconi USA |
| Vesna Dolonts RUS | vs | Venus Williams USA |
| Alona Bondarenko UKR | vs | Sabine Lisicki GER (22) |
| Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP (30) | vs | Qualifier |
| Qualifier | vs | Ayumi Morita JPN |
| Lucie Hradecka CZE | vs | Kateryna Bondarenko UKR |
| Qualifier | vs | Vera Zvonareva RUS (2) |
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