U.S. Open Tennis Championships start Monday, August 31

I've been playing tennis and watching tennis all my life, and the last major championship of 2009 starts tomorrow in New York City, right here in the United States of America. Here are the top 10 seeds for men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, and women's doubles:

Men's Singles

1. Roger Federer
2. Andy Murray
3. Rafal Nadal
4. Novak Djokovic
5. Andy Roddick - United States
6. Juan Martin del Potro
7. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
8. Nicolay Davydenko
9. Gilles Simon
10. Fernando Verdasco

Women's Singles

1. Dinara Safina
2. Serena Williams - United States
3. Venus Williams - United States
4. Elena Dementieva
5. Jelena Jankovic
6. Svetlana Kuznetsova
7. Vera Zvonareva
8. Victoria Azarenka
9. Caroline Wozniacki
10. Flavia Panetta

Men's Doubles

1. Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan - United States
2. Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic
3. Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles
4. Lukas Dlouhy and Leander Paes
5. Max Mirnyi and Adam Ram
6. Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski
7. Wesley Moodi and Dick Norman
8. Bruno Soares and Kevin Ullyett
9. Lukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach
10. Frantisek Cermak and Michal Mertinak

Women's Doubles

1. Cara Black and Liezel Huber
2. Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual
3. Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs
4. Serena Williams and Venus Williams - United States
5. Daniela Hantuchova and Ai Sugiyama
6. Nuria Llagostera Vives and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez
7. Su-Wei Hsieh and Shuai Peng
8. Bethanie Matte-Sands and Nadia Petrova
9. Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Patty Schnyder
10. Maria Kirilenko and Elena Vesnina

The mixed doubles seedings and draw will be released during the first week of play.

Last year's winners:

• Men's Singles - Roger Federer
• Women's Singles - Serena Williams (United States)
• Men's Doubles - Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan (United States)
• Women's Doubles - Cara Black and Liezel Huber
• Mixed Doubles - Cara Black and Leander Paes

Things you might not know about the U.S. Open Tennis Championship:

1. The first U.S. Open was held in August 1881, at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island.
2. The first "tournament" was simply an "entertainment diversion" for "high society."
3. Over 700,000 fans are expected to enter the gates during the two weeks of play.
4. In 1968, when the U.S. National Championships became the U.S. Open, total prize money for 96 men and 64 women in all events was a whopping $100,000. This year's total prize money for over 600 men and women will be over $21.6 million. The men's and women's champions will take home a cool $1.6 million. Coming in second, which means losing to the champion, also means collecting $800,000. I wouldn't mind losing.

Keep up with all the matches at the official U.S. Open web site, and you can watch many of them on television from your own Mission Valley condo right here in San Diego, California.

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