US Open 2010 Women’s 1st Round

photo credit:Dave Hogg

The 2010 US Open women’s main draw singles matches will begin this Monday 30 August at 11am local time in New York in the USA, which means 11pm Hong Kong time. There are 128 main draw spots divided up between 16 Qualifiers (Q), 8 Wild Cards (WC) and 104 Direct Acceptances.

The US Open, which is known as The Open is the 4th and final Grand Slam tournament of the year. The Open is the 2nd Grand Slam of the year that is played on hard courts and the only one that plays a final set tie-break to decide the match.

Pictured above is 2010 Australian Open singles champion Serena Williams just after making contact with the ball for this serve. The 28 year old 1.75m American made the semi finals of the 2009 US Open before being defaulted after an outburst by the World No.1 about being foot faulted against eventual champion Kim Clijsters. This year Serena is still injured and is unable to compete at the US Open, which means her No.1 ranking can be taken by 20 year old Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark.

Since Wimbledon 2001 the Grand Slam tournaments have seeded the Top 32 ranked players in the singles events to meet in the 3rd round. Prior to that there were only 16 seeds in the Grand Slams, which used to ensure that the seeded players did not player each other until the round of 16.

The seeded players do not receive a BYE in the 1st round of a Grand Slam event. To win the title a player must win 7 best of 3 set matches in a row. For further details about the women’s event you can visit -> US Open 2010 Women’s Schedule of Play and US Open 2010 Women’s Singles Draw.

The United States Tennis Association (USTA) chose to give 6 of the 8 wild cards to Americans; Chelsea Gullickson, Beatrice Capra, Jamie Hampton, Shelby Rogers, Coco Vandeweghe and Christina McHale and of these 6 Americans only McHale received a wild card last year as well as this year.

The final 2 Wild Cards are used in a reciprocal arrangement with 2 other Grand Slam tournaments Roland Garros and the Australian Open. Therefore, Tennis Australia and the French Tennis Federation are able to choose 1 Wild Card entrant each into the US Open. The French chose native Virginie Razzano and the Australians chose Aussie Sophie Ferguson. This arrangement gives the USTA a Main Draw Wild Card at these 2 events in return.

Being seeded means that you the earliest round in the event that you can meet another seeded player is 3rd round in which only 32 players remain. The bottom half of both the men’s and women’s draws will be played on Day 1 of the main draw singles events. The player’s name that is bolded in the 1st round singles draw below is OCA’s prediction of who will win each match.

The 2010 US Open women’s singles draw for the 1st round is:

(1) Caroline Wozniacki v. (WC) Chelsea Gullickson
Chang Kai-Chen v. Carla Suarez Navarro
Anne Keothavong v. Chan Yung-Jan
(Q) Tamira Paszek v. (26) Lucie Safarova
(18) Aravane Rezai v. Magdalena Rybarikova
(WC) Beatrice Capra v. Karolina Sprem
(Q) Nuria Llagostera Vives v. Iveta Benesova
Jarmila Groth v. (14) Maria Sharapova
(11) Svetlana Kuznetsova v. Kimiko Date Krumm
Regina Kulikova v. Anastasija Sevastova
Yvonne Meusburger v. Jill Craybas
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova v. (23) Maria Kirilenko
(30) Yaroslava Shvedova v. (Q) Lourdes Dominguez Lino
Anna Chakvetadze v. Urszula Radwanska
Dominika Cibulkova v. Stefanie Voegele
Katernya Bondarenko v. (8) Li Na
(4) Jelena Jankovic v. Simona Halep
Alicia Molik v. (Q) Mirjana Lucic
Chanelle Scheepers v. (Q) Akgul Amanmuradova
Alize Cornet v. (31) Kaia Kanepi
(22) Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez v. (WC) Jamie Hampton
Kirsten Flipkens v. Patty Schnyder
Romina Oprandi v. Julia Goerges
Alla Kudryavtseva v. (15) Yanina Wickmayer
(9) Agnieszka Radwanska v. Aranxta Parra Santonja
Peng Shuai v. (WC) Shelby Rogers
Bethanie Mattek-Sands v. Anabel Medina Garrigues
Andrea Petkovic v. (17) Nadia Petrova
(25) Alexandra Dulgheru v. Julie Coin
Sofia Arvidsson v. Sorana Cirstea
(WC) Coco Vandeweghe v. Sabine Lisicki
(Q) Zuzana Kucova v. (7) Vera Zvonareva
(6) Francesca Schiavone v. Ayumi Morita
(Q) Maria Elena Camerin v. (WC) Sophie Ferguson
Melanie Oudin v. (Q) Olga Savchuk
Vera Dushevina v. (29) Alona Bondarenko
(20) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova v. Kristina Barrois
(Q) Michelle Larcher de Brito v. (Q) Sania Mirza
Gisela Dulko v. Angelique Kerber
(Q) Monica Niculescu v. (10) Victoria Azarenka
(16) Shahar Peer v. Jelena Kostanic Tosic
Pauline Parmentier v. Alberta Brianti
Agnes Szavay v. Sandra Zahlavova
(Q) Irina Falconi v. (19) Flavia Pennetta
(32) Tsvetana Pironkova v. Renata Voracova
Polona Hercog v. (Q) Mandy Minella
(Q) Rebecca Marino v. Ksenia Pervak
Roberta Vinci v. (3) Venus Williams
(5) Samantha Stosur v. Elena Vesnina
Bojana Jovanovski v. Anastasia Rodionova
Sara Errani v. Tathiana Garbin
Johanna Larsson v. (28) Alisa Kleybanova
(24) Daniela Hantuchova v. Dinara Safina
Vania King v. (WC) Christina McHale
(Q) Zuzana Ondraskova v. Sybille Bammer
Olga Govortsova v. (12) Elena Dementieva
(13) Marion Bartoli v. Edina Gallovits
(WC) Virgine Razzano v. Klara Zakopalova
Ana Ivanovic v. Ekaterina Makarova
Timea Bacsinszky v. (21) Zheng Jie
(27) Petra Kvitova v. Lucie Hradecka
Elena Baltacha v. Petra Martic
(Q) Sally Peers v. Aleksandra Wozniak
Greta Arn v. (2) Kim Clijsters

Stay tuned to this tennis website for full coverage of every Grand Slam tournament and every major women’s and men’s tennis tournament on the WTA Tour and ATP Tours. Click this link for further details about the US Open including the schedules of play -> US Open 2010 August 24-September 12.