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Serena Williams was seeded 28th for the U.S. Open, which stuck with its policy of following the rankings instead of taking into account players' past performances.
That decision means Williams could face one of the Grand Slam tournament's top eight seeded players as early as the third round.
The 29-year-old American leads active women with 13 major championships, including three at Flushing Meadows -- in 1999, 2002 and 2008. She recently won consecutive hard-court tuneup tournaments at Stanford and Toronto, making her one of the favorites to win the U.S. Open, which starts next Monday.
A former No. 1, the American is ranked 29th this week. That's up from 175th in July, a few weeks after she returned to the tour following nearly a year off because of a series of health problems.
"After careful deliberation regarding Serena Williams' seeding, we decided to maintain the objective criteria in place to determine the women's singles seeds at this year's U.S. Open," tournament director Jim Curley said in a statement released Tuesday by the U.S. Tennis Association.
Read more: http://espn.go.com/tennis/usopen11/story/_/id/6888209/2011-us-open-serena-williams-seeded-28th
That decision means Williams could face one of the Grand Slam tournament's top eight seeded players as early as the third round.
The 29-year-old American leads active women with 13 major championships, including three at Flushing Meadows -- in 1999, 2002 and 2008. She recently won consecutive hard-court tuneup tournaments at Stanford and Toronto, making her one of the favorites to win the U.S. Open, which starts next Monday.
A former No. 1, the American is ranked 29th this week. That's up from 175th in July, a few weeks after she returned to the tour following nearly a year off because of a series of health problems.
"After careful deliberation regarding Serena Williams' seeding, we decided to maintain the objective criteria in place to determine the women's singles seeds at this year's U.S. Open," tournament director Jim Curley said in a statement released Tuesday by the U.S. Tennis Association.
Read more: http://espn.go.com/tennis/usopen11/story/_/id/6888209/2011-us-open-serena-williams-seeded-28th
