The 2024 US Open will be held between August 26th and September 8th, and the entry list for the season’s final major has been revealed.
Last year, the home crowd at the Flushing Meadows was delighted as their player lifted the trophy after two weeks at the US Open. Coco Gauff won her first major, and she will try to do the same also in 2024.
However, the young American wasn’t able to add to her collection of Grand Slam titles during the 2023 season, as Aryna Sabalenka won the Australian Open, Iga Swiatek won the French Open, and Barbora Krejcikova won Wimbledon.
Those three will be among the top favorites with Gauff, especially Swiatek, who is a former champion, having won the tournament in 2022, and Sabalenka, who was the player who lost in last year’s final, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, and she also played in two back-to-back semi-finals prior to that.
One player not to count out will be Elena Rybakina. The Kazakhstani player knows how it feels to win a Grand Slam title, having won the 2022 Wimbledon Championships, but so far, she couldn’t make a deep run at Flushing Meadows.
The last major of the season has been Rybakina’s worst so far, as she never made it past the third round, losing more matches than she won in New York, with a shocking 4-5 record. Last year, after two first-round, one second-round, and one third-round exits, she made it to the third round again, but lost in a three-set match to Sorana Cirstea, who will compete in 2024 too.
One of the top dark horses in the United States will be Jasmine Paolini. In her career, she never made it past the second round in New York, and in her four appearances, she won only one match, but there is one big however.
Prior to the 2024 season, she won only three matches at Roland Garros, and she has never won a match at Wimbledon, yet, she reached back-to-back finals at those Grand Slams and climbed into the Top 3 of the 2024 WTA Race, surpassing even the likes of Rybakina and Gauff.