Andre Agassi, Kim Clijsters Receive 2003 US Open Top Seeds
Monday, August 18, 2003
FLUSHING, N.Y., August 18, 2003 – The USTA announced that two-time US Open champion Andre Agassi of the United States and World No. 1 Kim Clijsters of Belgium will be seeded No. 1 at the 2003 US Open in men’s and women’s singles, respectively. The 2003 US Open will be played at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y., August 25 - September 7.
Agassi, the reigning Australian Open champion and current World No. 1, will be followed by No. 2 Roger Federer of Switzerland, the current Wimbledon champion; No. 3 Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain, the reigning French Open champion; and No. 4 Andy Roddick of the United States, who won consecutive Tennis Masters Series events in Montreal and Cincinnati during the past two weeks.
Clijsters, a two-time Grand Slam runner-up, will be followed by countrywoman Justine Henin-Hardenne, the reigning French Open Champion; and two Americans: No. 3 Lindsay Davenport, the 1998 US Open champion and No. 4 Venus Williams, a two-time US Open champion in 2000 and 2001 and last year’s runner-up.
Clijsters and Henin-Hardenne are the first women ever from the same country other than the United States to be seeded Nos. 1 and 2 at the US Open.
For 2003, the US Open continued the practice of following the ATP Entry System and WTA Tour rankings to determine the men’s and women’s singles seeds. This is the third consecutive year that the US Open has seeded 32 players in both singles events.
Agassi, 33, the oldest player to be ranked No. 1 in the ATP Entry System, enters the US Open as the No. 1 seed for the third time in his career (1995, 2000). He won his eighth career Grand Slam singles title at the Australian Open in January. Agassi owns a 62-15 record at the US Open and has reached the singles final here five times since 1990. He was runner-up last year to Pete Sampras. Agassi won the first of his two US Open titles as an unseeded player in 1994.
Clijsters, 20, took over the No. 1 spot on the WTA Tour rankings on August 11 after winning her tour-leading sixth singles title of the year. Clijsters reached her second French Open final in June and was a semifinalist at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon this year. She owns as a 10-4 record in four appearances at the US Open with her best showing in 2001 when she reached the quarterfinals. Clijsters ended 2002 ranked No. 4 after defeating Serena Williams in the final of the WTA Tour season-ending
championships.
The draw for the 2003 US Open will take place on Wednesday, August 20 at 12 noon at the United Nations in New York City.
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