US Open 2025 draw live: Jack Draper, Emma Raducanu and Novak Djokovic discover first round opponents

The pair are the leading British hopes for success in New York, with Draper bidding to follow up last year’s breakthrough run to the semi-finals.

Seeded fifth, the draw initially appears to have been kind to the 23-year-old, although he could face defending champion Jannik Sinner a round earlier than last year in the last eight.

“I feel great,” she told the People. “I feel really good and healthy. I feel light physically and light mentally.”

But Raducanu could face a tricky third-round opponent in the shape of former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina, if she gets past another seeded opponent in Veronika Kudermetova in round two, while fifth seed Draper has landed in the same quarter as defending men’s champion Jannik Sinner.

It’s a tougher opening draw for Katie Boulter and Sonay Kartal, who begin against seeded opponents in Marta Kostyuk and Beatriz Haddad-Maia respectively. Cameron Norrie also faces a tricky test against American Sebastian Korda while Jacob Fearnley begins against the experienced Roberto Bautista Agut.

On the women’s side, defending champion Aryna Sabalenka begins against Rebeka Masarova but has avoided landing on the same side of the draw as Coco Gauff or Madison Keys. They join Iga Swiatek in the bottom half, and the second seed could face a Wimbledon final rematch with eighth seed Amanda Anisimova in New York.

On the men’s side, Novak Djokovic will play American Learner Tien in the first round and has landed in the same quarter as fourth seed Taylor Fritz, as well as the same half as Carlos Alcaraz, who begins against Reilly Opelka. World No 1 Sinner plays Vit Kopriva in his first-round match.

Elsewhere, former champion Venus Williams, who is back at the US Open as a 45-year-old wildcard, will play 11th seed and two-time US Open semi-finalist Karolina Muchova on her return to Flushing Meadows.

Iga Swiatek hopes to dethrone Aryna Sabalenka and the draw has opened up nicely for her.

She faces Colombia’s Emiliana Arango in the first round and will avoid a seeded player until the third round where she could face Anna Kalinskaya.

Kalinskaya has only ever reached the third round once though meaning Swiatek’s first ‘tricky’ match would likely come in the fourth round against 13th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova.

These are all hypotheticals of course but things like to be set up well for the No.2 seed and Cincinnati Open champion.

The French Open champion, Coco Gauff, is set to face Australian Ajla Tomljanovic in the first round.

Tomljanovic has reached the quarter-finals of this grand slam before so is no slouch and Gauff will need to find her A-game at her home grand slam.

Teenager Victora Mboko, fresh off her win at the Canadian Open, came into the draw seeded 22nd.

She faces Barbora Krejcikova in the first round with the Czech a two-time grand slam winner having triumphed at the French Open and at Wimbledon.

Her best effort on the hard courts of the US Open is the quarter-final in 2021, but she also reached that stage at the similar Australian Open in 2024.

The US fans would have loved 45-year-old Venus Williams to go on a strong run at the US Open and it is still possible.

It’s not just extremely more difficult.

Williams have been drawn against Karolina Muchova in the opening round.

The 29-year-old Czech is the 11th seed for the tournament and reached the semi-finals here in both 2023 and 2024.

Still be aiming to do better this time around which could mean an early exit for Williams, unfortunately.

And for the women, last year’s finalists Aryna Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula could meet in the semi-finals this time around:

(1) Sabalenka vs Paolini (7)

(4) Pegula vs Andreeva (5)

(8) Anisimova vs Swiatek (2)

Should all the seeded players make it through to their respective quarter-finals this is how the men’s draw is shaping up:

(3) Zverev vs de Minaur (8)

(7) Djokovic vs Fritz (4)

(6) Shelton vs Alcaraz (2)

Aryna Sabalenka, meanwhile, gets her campaign going against Rebeka Masarova of Switzerland.