Reigning Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic has been seeded No 1 for the US Open with five-time winner Roger Federer seeded second, the United States Tennis Association announced on Tuesday.
Should both players reach the final of the year's last Grand Slam tournament, they would compete in a mouth-watering rematch of this year's Wimbledon final, a five-set thriller won by Djokovic.
Serbian world No 1 Djokovic has reached the US Open final for the past four years at Flushing Meadows, winning the title in 2011.
Swiss Federer is seeded at the US Open for a 14th consecutive year, tying Ivan Lendl for the second longest streak in the Open era with only Jimmy Connors (18) ahead of them.
Spanish world No 2 Rafa Nadal, the reigning US Open champion, has withdrawn from the tournament because of an injured right wrist.
Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland has been seeded third with Spaniard David Ferrer fourth and big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic fifth. Czech Tomas Berdych is the sixth seed, Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov seventh and Britain's Andy Murray, the 2012 US Open champion, eighth.
The seeds for the women's tournament will be announced on Wednesday, with the draw to be conducted at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Thursday.
Reuters
(China Daily 08/21/2014 page23)
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