US Open, hard courts (28 August-10 September 2017) Six withdrawals at the moment in the last Grand Slam event of the year. Serena Williams, Laura Siegemund, Yaroslava Shvedova, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Kristina Kucova and Mandy Minella won't play due to injury or maternity.

Angelique Kerber will be the defending champion, and so she will have to try to defend 2,000 points in order not to drop even more in the Rankings (she is World No. 3 at the moment). The new World No. 1 Karolina Pliskova leads the field, while Simona Halep will try to reach her first final in New York.

The World No. 105 Julia Boserup is the last to enter directly, but five players used the protected ranking: Victoria Azarenka, who came back to compete last month after becoming mother in December, and then Sabine Lisicki, Anna-Lena Friedsam, Alja Tomljanovic and Sloane Stephens, who all come back from injuries that forced them to stay out of the competition for a long time.

World No. 171 Maria Sharapova will be forced to play qualies unless she will be awarded with a wild card, which is very unlikely. Here below full main draw entry list:

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1 Karolina Pliskova CZE

2 Simona Halep ROU

3 Angelique Kerber GER

4 Johanna Konta GBR

5 Garbiñe Muguruza ESP

6 Elina Svitolina UKR

7 Caroline Wozniacki DEN

8 Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS

9 Venus Williams USA

10 Agnieszka Radwanska POL

11 Dominika Cibulkova SVK

12 Jelena Ostapenko LAT

13 Kristina Mladenovic FRA

14 Petra Kvitova CZE

15 Madison Keys USA

16 Anastasija Sevastova LAT

17 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS

18 Elena Vesnina RUS

19 Caroline Garcia FRA

20 Coco Vandeweghe USA

21 Ana Konjuh CRO

22 Timea Bacsinszky SUI

23 Daria Gavrilova USA

24 Barbora Strycova CZE

25 Mirjana Lucic-Baroni CRO

26 Lauren Davis USA

27 Shuai Zhang CHN

28 Lesia Tsurenko UKR

29 Shuai Peng CHN

30 Daria Kasatkina RUS

31 Anett Kontaveit EST

32 Magdalena Rybarikova SVK

33 Carla Suárez Navarro ESP

34 Kiki Bertens NED

35 Roberta Vinci ITA

36 Samantha Stosur AUS

37 Alison Riske USA

38 Catherine Bellis USA

40 Kristyna Pliskova CZE

41 Lucie Safarova CZE

42 Timea Babos HUN

43 Katerina Siniakova CZE

44 Julia Goerges GER

45 Alizé Cornet FRA

46 Yulia Putintseva UKR

47 Johanna Larsson SWE

48 Naomi Osaka JPN

49 Mona Barthel GER

50 Qiang Wang CHN

51 Donna Vekic CRO

52 Sorana Cirstea ROU

53 Oceane Dodin USA

54 Elise Mertens BEL

55 Monica Niculescu ROU

56 Ashleigh Barty AUS

57 Irina-Camelia Begu ROU

58 Ekaterina Makarova RUS

59 Christina McHale USA

60 Lara Arruabarrena ESP

61 Shelby Rogers USA

62 Ying-Ying Duan CHN

63 Varvara Lepchenko USA

64 Natalia Vikhlyantseva RUS

65 Carina Witthoeft GER

66 Tatjana Maria GER

67 Monica Puig POR

68 Eugenie Bouchard CAN

69 Jelena Jankovic SRB

70 Saisai Zheng CHN

71 Camila Giorgi ITA

72 Misaki Doi JPN

73 Francesca Schiavone ITA

74 Madison Brengle USA

75 Marketa Vondrousova RUS

76 Risa Ozaki JPN

77 Magda Linette SWE

78 Heather Watson GBR

79 Jennifer Brady USA

80 Beatriz Haddad Maia BRA

81 Yanina Wickmayer BEL

82 Veronica Cepede Royg PAR

83 Evgeniya Rodina RUS

84 Kirsten Flipkens BEL

85 Sara Errani ITA

86 Nao Hibino JPN

87 Petra Martic CRO

88 Jana Cepelova CZE

89 Ekaterina Alexandrova RUS

90 Aleksandra Krunic SRB

91 Maria Sakkari GRE

92 Andrea Petkovic GER

93 Sara Sorribes Tormo ESP

94 Kurumi Nara JPN

95 Richel Hogenkamp NED

96 Aliaksandra Sasnovich BLR

97 Alison Van Uytvanck BEL

98 Ons Jabeur TUN

99 Viktorija Golubic SUI

100 Julia Boserup USA

101 Victoria Azarenka BLR

102 Sloane Stephens USA

103 Anna-Lena Friedsam GER

104 Sabine Lisicki GER

105 Alja Tomljanovic CRO Alternates

1. Denisa Allertova CZE

2. Pauline Parmentier FRA

3. Ana Bogdan ROU

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