Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner – the two leading players in the men’s game – have not entered.<\/p>\n
Spain’s seven-time major champion Alcaraz, who played alongside Britain’s Emma Raducanu at Flushing Meadows last year, is still recovering from a wrist injury and it is not certain when he will return.<\/p>\n
Italy’s Sinner – who won his fifth major at Wimbledon last month – did not play in last year’s event and has pulled out of the upcoming Canadian Open to “prioritise” his health.<\/p>\n
There is also no place yet for Serena Williams. The 23-time major singles champion made her comeback at Wimbledon last month but sustained a knee injury which ruled her out of a planned doubles appearance alongside older sister Venus.<\/p>\n
But the announcement of the first wave of entries does not mean Williams will not play – nor does it guarantee the pairings who signed up already will end up taking part.<\/p>\n
When the entry window closes on 17 August, the six teams with the best combined singles ranking will be directly accepted into the main draw.<\/p>\n
Eight teams will be given wildcards, while the final two places will be decided by an eight-team qualifying round played on 24 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner – the two leading players in the men’s game – have not entered.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-788034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}