The American Open brings something new to the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center for 2025: three days of action in the first round.
The tournament presenting a Sunday departure, the opening matches are more distributed. The n ° 1 of the world and the reigning champion Aryna Sabalenka, the Grand Chelem champion 24 times Novak Djokovic and the champion of the 2021 Jokers Emma Raducanu are all in action on Sunday August 24.
Here is what to look at, on the three show shorts and around the field.
Start time: Noon and, 9 a.m.
TV: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN +, ABC
Ben Shelton (6) against Ignacio Buse (q)
Not far from his first ATP Masters 1000 title in Toronto, Shelton wants to go from a level below a large slam, to one by winning one. He opens Stade Arthur Ashe in what could be his first and last day match of the tournament against noise, a Peruvian qualifier. He came out of a semi-final in a challenger event in Cancun, Mexico, where he beat the world No. 60 Daniel Altmaier on a hard ground. The seeded n ° 6 is a very different proposal for a first main print match of the Grand Chelem, but noise will have nothing to lose.
Aryna Sabalenka (1) against Rebeka Masarova
The world n ° 1 of women comes to New York in a strange position. She is comfortable in the front row and went deep in almost all the events she played in 2025 … But Iga świątek tries to revise it and she did not win a major this year. She won 50 of the 60 games played this year and 18 of the 19 Tieurs, but playing 19 tieurs shows how her service was vulnerable at regular intervals.
Masarova took the Belarusian to one of these equality of equality to the Berlin Open, but expect Sabalenka to pass in his quest to defend his title.
Novak Djokovic (7) against the shadow of the learner
A classic of the genre in the first round – the veteran of the elite against a promising hope at home – but has ample as much as possible. Tien, 19, beat four best players this year with his parabolic services and his cut blows and his delicate mastery of balloon control. Djokovic, 38, is entirely on the Grand Colem and likes to attract younger players, especially players like Tien, who thrive on crafts and motifs, in a general skills battle that he is convinced that he will win. The Grand Chelem champion 24 times has not played since Wimbledon and will have to find his pace quickly against the American.
Jessica Pegula (4) vs. Sherif Mayar
Pegula entered the US Open last year with confidence after defending his title of Canadian Open in Toronto and reached the final of the Cincinnati Open. She was still looking for her first appearance in the semi-finals during a major, after reaching the quarter-finals six times.
She arrives at this year’s tournament as a finalist last year, after crossing this Grand Slam bridge to her major, but she also arrives with less confidence. Pegula was indifferent to several events and admitted to her press conference before the tournament she did not feel entirely confident in her game. Sherif has a 2-7 sheet against the 10 best players in her career, but with Pegula defending so many classification points in front of her crowd, she will try to test her confidence.
Jessica Pegula enters the last major of the year with points to defend from the end of the final. (Charly Triballeau / AFP via Getty Images)
Louis Armstrong
Start time: 11 a.m., 9 a.m. PT
TV: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN +, ABC
Emma Raducanu against Ena Shibahara (Q)
The title of Raducanu in 2021 did not produce any results in New York: she has not won a match at the US Open since then. But she enters this event with a new coach to Francisco Roig, the former lieutenant of Rafael Nadal, at the back of one of his best tracks since this famous round. The qualifier Shibahara, a double specialist who made a single boost, is unlikely to disturb her given this.
Emilio Nava (WC) against Taylor Fritz (4)
Two solid rock talents at very different stages of their careers meet in a completely American confrontation. Nava is a joker, but he won the USTA challenge, which rewards recent field performance, to obtain it. Fritz is a finalist defeated from last year and the first name on a long list that seeks to end a Grand Slam drought for the United States on the men’s side. Fritz is likely to have too much firepower on the service and too much solidity on the return, but Nava will question the best players in the first stages of the majors for a while.
DESTANE AIAVA (Q) against Jasmine Paulin (7)
Paolini, beaten by świątek in the final of Cincinnati Open, fell back the two major finals of last year with a presence in the last laps of certain WTA 1000 events – but not with strong performances in the majors themselves. She begins her campaign against Australia’s AIAVA, which has ahead of the German talent up Ella Seidel to qualify.
Daniil Medvedev (13) against Benjamin Bonzi
Medvedev is in a bad place. The archetype of archetypal thoroughness, which made Djokovic and Rafael Nadal evolve to their reference games when he entered the stage, lost a zip on his service and a punch in his backlash. Bonzi beat him in Wimbledon, and Medvedev is firmly on the upset watch here, to the point that if it would be an upheaval is in question.
Taylor Fritz’s mission is to win a first Grand Slam title to his major. (Kirsty Wrigglesworth / Associated Press)
Tribune
Start time: 11 a.m., 9 a.m. PT
TV: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN +, ABC
Jakub Menšík (16) against Nicolás Jarry
A difficult mission for Menšík, the prodigiously talented teenager who has luggage at the start of his career in the majors who consists mainly of close defeats in the matches he could have put aside. Expect a lot of service and first shot in it, because Jarry can go aside with the Czech, and the two players can fight against tolerance in the rally. If Menšík loses the accent, the Chilean will be ready to enjoy it.
Alexandra Eala against Clara Tauson (14)
The first year of Eala on the tour made her a star for the Philippines, and she upset some best players. Tauson, a formidable ball ball but not always comfortable when maneuvered on the left and right, can find crafts and the use of angles.
Emma Navarro (10) against Wang Yafan
If Pegula is in a delicate moment, Navarro is very difficult. From a battery in the hands of Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro to the French Open in which she lost the first set 6-0, the American – generally the quintessence of confident and aggressive coherence – has sought a shape. She should obtain a victory in her first game here, but she defends the semi-final points and always finds how to live with a much smaller number next to her name than 12 months ago.
Brandon Nashed (30) against Jesper de Jong (Q)
Nakashima is one of the most coherent players among American men: an extremely underestimated place with impeccable tenacity. De Jong, a thread with winners to burn and an eye for Flair, will try to disturb the rhythm of Nakashima and try to take it off from the base line; Nakashima will do his best to put the Dutch asleep with a tennis metronome.
Around the field
Start time: 11 a.m., 9 a.m. PT
TV: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN +, ABC
Rebecca Marino (Q) against Leylah Fernandez (31)
Second on Stadium 17: A Canadian All Confrontation and a Test for the recent form of earthworks of Fernandez who saw her win the WTA 500 title at the Citi Open in Washington, DC
Stefan Dobanic (WC) against Eliot Spizziriri (WC)
Second on the courtyard 11: a confrontation of the entirely American jokers. Spizzirri beat the phenomenon rising João Fonseca by qualifying last year, while Dostanic won the Tennis College qualifying series to make his first main draw in New York. Large for both.
Janice Tjen (Q) against Veronika Kudermetova (24)
First of all on the courtyard 13: Victoria Mboko and the Canadian and French Boisson Law races looked like Cinderella stories, but they were built on a relentless victory in the minor tennis leagues. The next player of this never lost school is Tjen, an Indonesian who plays university tennis in Pepperdine. Buried Alert is on.
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