Tennis great Roger Federer and Russian Dinara Safina were officially announced as the top seeds for next week’s U.S. Open, according to the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) on Tuesday.
Federer, the five-time defending champion of the season’s last grand slam tournament, had a phenomenal year after his highly emotional finals loss to Rafael Nadal at the Australian Open earlier this year.
The Swiss went on to win the French Open in May to tie Pete Sampras’s grand slam record (14), and then battled Andy Roddick in an epic Wimbledon final that ended in a 16–14 set and his 15th grand slam. He is now only the sixth man to ever complete the career Grand slam.
Federer has wrestled the world No. 1 spot back from Nadal after previously holding it for a record 237 consecutive weeks, and is followed in the U.S. Open seeding by Britain’s Andy Murray at No. 2, Nadal at No. 3, Novak Djokovic at No. 4, and Andy Roddick at No. 5.
Federer, the five-time defending champion of the season’s last grand slam tournament, had a phenomenal year after his highly emotional finals loss to Rafael Nadal at the Australian Open earlier this year.
The Swiss went on to win the French Open in May to tie Pete Sampras’s grand slam record (14), and then battled Andy Roddick in an epic Wimbledon final that ended in a 16–14 set and his 15th grand slam. He is now only the sixth man to ever complete the career Grand slam.
Federer has wrestled the world No. 1 spot back from Nadal after previously holding it for a record 237 consecutive weeks, and is followed in the U.S. Open seeding by Britain’s Andy Murray at No. 2, Nadal at No. 3, Novak Djokovic at No. 4, and Andy Roddick at No. 5.
