US Open 2021: draw, results, how to watch, play, live updates, scores, TV channel

The tennis calendar has been re-launched in 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic was disrupted for much of the 2020 season. The US Open has returned to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York and will showcase some of the biggest stars in the sport.

The men’s field won’t have much star strength for the second year in a row. Neither Roger Federer nor Rafael Nadal will take part in the US Open. Federer underwent knee surgery in the early summer and hopes to return to the court in 2022. The Swiss tennis star took part in Wimbledon earlier this summer, but suffered another knee injury in the Grand Slam tournament. Meanwhile, Nadal has suffered a chronic shoe injury and has recently announced that he is sitting for the rest of the 2021 season.

U.S. Open champion Dominic Thiem will defend the U.S. Open this year as well, dealing with a wrist injury. Like Federer and Nadal, Thiem will be on the shelf at the end of the 2021 tennis season. Thiem injured his wrist in Mallorca in early summer.

Although the biggest stars of the sport will be seated, Novak Djokovic will take part in the US Open. Djokovic wanted to beat Federer and Nadal to win the most Grand Slam titles in history. Djokovic, Federer and Nadal currently hold 20 Grand Slam titles. Djokovic won his 20th Grand Slam title in July when he won at Wimbledon. Winning, Djokovic also opened the year as the calendar to be the first man to win a Grand Slam, after winning the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon this year.

For women, Serena Williams will not be taking part in the US Open due to a writing injury. It’s the same injury that caused Williams to miss the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In addition, Sofia Kenin, a 5th-ranked player in the world, will miss the US Open due to a positive COVID-19 test. Kenin suffered a shoe injury at Wimbledon earlier this summer.

Ashleigh Barty and Naomi Osaka are the two-time U.S. Open champions at this year’s U.S. Open. Earlier this year, Osaka made headlines when it said it would not comply with media obligations and eventually withdrew from the French Open. Osaka left Wimbledon before returning to light the cauldron and competing in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Although some of the biggest sports stars will be at the US Open, the area will have plenty of exciting action in the coming weeks.

Timetable

The first round of the men’s individual

• Novak Djokovic vs No. 1 TBD
• No. 14 Alex de Minaur vs. Taylor Fritz
• Hubert Hurkacz No. 10 vs. Egor Gerasimov
• No. 20 vs. Lorenzo Sonego TBD
• No. 6 Matteo Berrettini vs. Jeremy Chardy
• No. 4 Alexander Zverev vs. Sam Querrey
• Gael Monfils No. 17 and Federico Coria
• No. 13 Jannik Sinner vs. Max Purcell
• No. 9 Pablo Carreno Busta vs. TBD
• No. 7 Denis Shapovalov vs. Federico Delbonis
• No. 5 Andrey Rublev Vs. TBD
• No. 18 Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Nick Kyrgios
• Felix Auger-Aliassime No. 12 vs. TBD
• No. 16 Cristian Garin vs. Norbert Gombos
• No. Stefanos Tsitsipas 3 Andy Murray
• Casper Ruud Vs. No. 8 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
• No. 19 John Isner vs. Brandon Nakashima
• No. 11 Diego Schwartzman Vs. Ricardas Berankis
• No. 15 Grigor Dimitrov Sam Riffice
• Number 2: Daniil Medvedev and Richard Gasquet

The first round of the women’s individual

• No. 1 Ashleigh Barty vs. Vera Zvonareva
• No. 13 Jennifer Brady vs. TBD
• No. 11 Belinda Bencic vs. Arantxa Rus
• No. 7 Iga Swiatek vs. TBD
• No. 4 Karolina Pliskova vs. Catherine McNally
• No. 14 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Alison Riske
• No. 10 Petra Kvitova Polona Herzog
• Well. 17 Maria Sakkari vs Marta Kostyuk
• Bianca Andreescu vs No. 6 Victoria Golubic
• No. 5 Elina Svitolina vs. TBD
• No. 19 Elena Rybakina vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Simona Halep No. 12 vs. Camila Giorgi
• No. 16 Angelique Kerber vs. Dayana Yastremska
• No. 3 Naomi Osaka vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Barbora Krejcikova No. 8 vs. TBD
• No. 18 Victoria Azarenka Vs. Tereza Martincova
• No. 9 Garbine Muguruza vs. Donna Vekic
• Elise Mertens No. 15 and Rebecca Peterson
• No. 20 Ons Jabeur Vs. Alize Cornet
• No. 2 vs. Aryna Sabalenka Nina Stojanovic

How to see the 2021 US Open

• Days: August 30-September. 12
• Hour: It changes
• Place: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, New York, New York
• TV: ESPN
• Stream: fuboTV (try it for free)