Five-time former champion Roger Federer has been named the top seed for the 2012 US Open, which begins on 27 August.
Federer, who has a 61-7 record at the hard-court Grand Slam championship in New York, won five straight titles from 2004 to 2008. He is tied with Jimmy Connors and Pete Sampras for most US Open titles in the Open Era (since 1968). The Swiss superstar will be bidding to capture his 18th major title.
Serbian Novak Djokovic, who beat Rafael Nadal 6-2, 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-1 in last year’s final, is the second seed. Britain’s Andy Murray, the singles gold medallist at the London 2012 Olympics and 2008 US Open runner-up, is No. 3 seed. Spain’s David Ferrer, the 2007 semi-finalist, is fourth seed. John Isner is the highest-seeded American at No. 9, while 2003 titlist Andy Roddick is No. 20 seed.
US Open organisers have followed the South African Airways ATP Rankings of Monday, 20 August to determine the seeds. This is the 11th consecutive year that the US Open has seeded 32 players.
1. Roger Federer 5/2
2. Novak Djokovic 6/4
3. Andy Murray 10/3
4. David Ferrer 50/1
5. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 28/1
6. Tomas Berdych 40/1
7. Juan M Del Potro 8/1
8. Janko Tipsarevic 150/1
9. John Isner 40/1
10. Juan Monaco 500/1
11. Nicolas Almagro 400/1
12. Marin Cilic 100/1
13. Richard Gasquet 125/1
14. A. Dolgopolov 150/1
15. Milos Raonic 40/1
16. Gilles Simon 200/1
17. Kei Nishikori 200/1
18. Stanislas Wawrinka 200/1
19. P. Kohlschreiber
20. Andy Roddick 100/1
21. Tommy Haas 200/1
22. Florian Mayer
23. Mardy Fish 80/1
24. Marcel Granollers
25. Fernando Verdasco 200/1
26. Andreas Seppi
27. Sam Querrey
28. Mikhail Youzhny 300/1
29. Viktor Troicki
30. Feliciano Lopez 250/1
31. Julien Benneteau
32. Jeremy Chardy
