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px-3 lg:border-caption\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-1.5 break-words !text-xs !text-content\">\n                                WTA stars Alex Eala and Aryna Sabalenka                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/aryna-sabalenka\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, Elena Rybakina, Coco Gauff, Iga Swiatek and Alex Eala are all set to star at the 2026 US Open, and the women\u2019s singles seeds have been locked in.<\/p>\n<p>The US Open singles draws will be revealed on Thursday 27 August at 12pm local time, while main draw singles action at Flushing Meadows will begin on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The cutoff date for the women\u2019s seeds at the US Open was Monday 24 August as the WTA Rankings will not be updated again before play gets underway.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, results at this week\u2019s WTA 500 tournament in Monterrey will have no bearing on seeding positions for the season\u2019s final major.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/us-open\">US Open<\/a> women\u2019s singles draw includes 128 players \u2014 32 of which are seeded.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/aryna-sabalenka\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> will be the top seed for the eighth consecutive Grand Slam tournament as she aims to win her fifth major.<\/p>\n<h2>More WTA Tour News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/most-wta-top-10-wins-2026-featuring-aryna-sabalenka-alex-eala-elena-rybakina\"><strong>Most WTA top 10 wins in 2026: Alex Eala with second-best win percentage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/wta-rankings-race-to-indian-wells-elena-rybakina-no-1-aryna-sabalenka-alex-eala\">WTA Rankings Race To Indian Wells: Aryna Sabalenka loses No 1 spot as Alex Eala 15th<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is uncertainty over the fitness of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/elena-rybakina\">Elena Rybakina<\/a>, who is yet to practice at the US Open after she retired with an injury in her Cincinnati quarter-final last week.<\/p>\n<p>As things stand, Rybakina is set to play, and she will be the No 2 seed.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff, who contested the Cincinnati Open final, will be seeded third and fourth respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Mirra Andreeva, Linda Noskova, Karolina Muchova and Iga Swiatek complete the top eight seeds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/alex-eala\">Alex Eala<\/a> is set to be seeded 17th, which will be the highest-ever Grand Slam seeding position for a player from the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>If Rybakina or another top 16 seed pulls out of the US Open before the draw on Thursday, Eala will move into the top 16.<\/p>\n<p>Seven American women will be seeded: Pegula, Gauff, Amanda Anisimova, Iva Jovic, Madison Keys, Emma Navarro and Ann Li.<\/p>\n<h2>Projected 2026 US Open WTA seedings<\/h2>\n<p>1. Aryna Sabalenka<br \/>\n2. Elena Rybakina<br \/>\n3. Jessica Pegula<br \/>\n4. Coco Gauff<br \/>\n5. Mirra Andreeva<br \/>\n6. Linda Noskova<br \/>\n7. Karolina Muchova<br \/>\n8. Iga Swiatek<br \/>\n9. Elina Svitolina<br \/>\n10. Amanda Anisimova<br \/>\n11. Marta Kostyuk<br \/>\n12. Belinda Bencic<br \/>\n13. Naomi Osaka<br \/>\n14. Iva Jovic<br \/>\n15. Diana Shnaider<br \/>\n16. Sorana Cirstea<br \/>\n17. Alex Eala<br \/>\n18. Ekaterina Alexandrova<br \/>\n19. Jasmine Paolini<br \/>\n20. Maja Chwalinska<br \/>\n21. Anna Kalinskaya<br \/>\n22. Madison Keys<br \/>\n23. Elise Mertens<br \/>\n24. Anastasia Potapova<br \/>\n25. Marie Bouzkova<br \/>\n26. Emma Navarro<br \/>\n27. Barbora Krejcikova<br \/>\n28. Sara Bejlek<br \/>\n29. Ann Li<br \/>\n30. Jelena Ostapenko<br \/>\n31. Leylah Fernandez<br \/>\n32. Maria Sakkari<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/stan-wawrinka-statement-us-open-announce-wildcard-u-turn\">Stan Wawrinka reacts to shock US Open wildcard turnaround after controversial snub<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 US Open women\u2019s seeds confirmed: Eala\u2019s record, Sabalenka No 1, Rybakina still set to play Ewan West 26 Aug 2026 9:30 PM WTA stars Alex Eala and Aryna Sabalenka Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina, Coco Gauff, Iga Swiatek and Alex Eala are all set to star at the 2026 US Open, and the women\u2019s singles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-2113525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2113525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}