2013 US Open (tennis)

 

The 2013 US Open was the 133rd edition of the tournament and was held at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City, United States.

The tournament was an event run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the 2013 ATP World Tour and the 2013 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as a mixed doubles event. There were singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which was part of the Grade A category of tournaments, and after one-year break due to Paralympic Games in London singles, doubles and quad events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the NEC tour under the Grand Slam category.

The tournament was played on hard courts and took place over a series of 17 courts, including the three main showcourts, Arthur Ashe Stadium, Louis Armstrong Stadium and Grandstand.

• In 2008–2012, due to inclement weather conditions, the tournament lasted 15 instead of the scheduled 14 days, ending on the third Monday. In 2013, the schedule was extended to 15 days, potentially giving the players one more day to prepare for the final match.^[2]
• Maria Sharapova, 2006 champion, ranked third in the world (formerly first), withdrew from the tournament due to a shoulder injury.^[3]
• In a second round match which pitted the 2001 and 2009 men's champions against each other, Lleyton Hewitt defeated Juan Martín del Potro in five grueling sets lasting over four hours; this marked the first time since he won the title in 2001 that Hewitt had defeated a top ten opponent at the US Open.^[4]
• By winning the first set in her fourth round loss to Victoria Azarenka, Ana Ivanovic won her first set against a top ten opponent at a Grand Slam since she won the 2008 French Open, ending a streak of 15 consecutive sets lost against a top ten seed.^{[note a][5]}
• Serena Williams won 24 consecutive games from 1–1 in the second set against Sloane Stephens in the fourth round through to 1–0 in the second set against Li Na in the semi-finals, breaking her own record of 23 games at last year's US Open.^[6]
• For the second consecutive year, Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka contested the women's final, marking the first time since 2001–2 in which two consecutive US Open finals were contested between the same two players.^[6]
• With Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal contesting the men's final, this marked the first time since the 2000 Australian Open in which both the men's and women's finals were contested between the top two.^[7]
• By winning the tournament, both Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams collected the biggest payday in tennis history of $3.6M ($2.6M for the championship and an added $1M bonus for winning the 2013 US Open Series). Also, with the win, Williams and Nadal have now won each Grand Slam together – the Australian Open (2009), the French Open (2013), Wimbledon (2010) and the US Open (2013). They are the first male-female pair in the entire history of tennis, not just in the Open Era, to win all four Grand Slams together.^a[8]
• By winning the US Open, Rafael Nadal became the first player since Andy Roddick in 2003 to capture the 3 major consecutive US hardcourt season titles, namely the Roger's Cup, Cincinnati Masters and US Open.

Note:

Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event.

The US Open total prize money for 2013 was increased by almost nine million dollars to tournament record $34,300,000.^[9]

In the 2013 season, the US Open prize money was the highest out of four grand slam tournaments, compared to $30m at the Australian Open, $29m at the French Open, and $34m at the Wimbledon Championships.^[10]

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Top three players in the 2013 US Open Series received bonus prize money, depending on where they finish in the 2013 US Open, according to money schedule below.^[11]

2013 Emirates Airline US Open Series Finish	2013 US Open Finish								Awardees
	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 128
1st place	$1,000,000	$500,000	$250,000	$125,000	$70,000	$40,000	$25,000	$15,000	Rafael Nadal	$1,000,000
									Serena Williams	$1,000,000
2nd place	$500,000	$250,000	$125,000	$62,500	$35,000	$20,000	$12,500	$7,500	John Isner	$20,000
									Victoria Azarenka	$250,000
3rd place	$250,000	$125,000	$62,500	$31,250	$17,500	$10,000	$6,250	$3,750	Juan Martín del Potro	$6,250
									Agnieszka Radwańska	$17,500

2013 US Open – Men's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Rafael Nadal [2]		Novak Djokovic [1]
Semifinals out
Stanislas Wawrinka [9]		Richard Gasquet [8]
Quarterfinals out
Mikhail Youzhny [21]	Andy Murray [3]	David Ferrer [4]	Tommy Robredo [19]
4th round out
Marcel Granollers	Lleyton Hewitt	Denis Istomin	Tomáš Berdych [5]
Milos Raonic [10]	Janko Tipsarević [18]	Roger Federer [7]	Philipp Kohlschreiber [22]
3rd round out
João Sousa	Tim Smyczek (WC)	Tommy Haas [12]	Evgeny Donskoy
Florian Mayer	Andreas Seppi [20]	Marcos Baghdatis	Julien Benneteau [31]
Dmitry Tursunov [32]	Feliciano López [23]	Jack Sock	Mikhail Kukushkin
Adrian Mannarino	Dan Evans (Q)	John Isner [13]	Ivan Dodig
2nd round out
Benjamin Becker	Jarkko Nieminen	Alex Bogomolov Jr.	Rajeev Ram
Lu Yen-hsun	Alexandr Dolgopolov	Peter Gojowczyk	Juan Martín del Potro [6]
Leonardo Mayer	Donald Young	Somdev Devvarman	Tobias Kamke
Ivo Karlović	Kevin Anderson [17]	Jérémy Chardy	Denis Kudla
Stéphane Robert	Guillaume Rufin (WC)	Bradley Klahn (WC)	Pablo Andújar
Máximo González (Q)	Dudi Sela	Andreas Haider-Maurer	Roberto Bautista Agut
Carlos Berlocq (WC)	Sam Querrey [26]	Frank Dancevic (Q)	Bernard Tomic
Gaël Monfils	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Nikolay Davydenko	Rogério Dutra da Silva (Q)
1st round out
Ričardas Berankis	Lukáš Rosol	Łukasz Kubot	Grigor Dimitrov [25]
Benoît Paire [24]	James Duckworth (WC)	Jürgen Zopp	Fabio Fognini [16]
Paul-Henri Mathieu	Daniel Gimeno Traver	David Goffin	Nicolas Mahut
Jürgen Melzer [29]	Igor Sijsling	Brian Baker (WC)	Guillermo García López
Michaël Llodra	Victor Hănescu	Martin Kližan	Juan Mónaco [28]
Xavier Malisse	Lukáš Lacko	Steve Johnson	Nicolás Almagro [15]
Radek Štěpánek	James Blake	Go Soeda (Q)	Daniel Brands
Michał Przysiężny	Sergiy Stakhovsky	Jiří Veselý	Paolo Lorenzi
Michael Russell	Albano Olivetti (Q)	Jan-Lennard Struff	Aljaž Bedene
Florent Serra (Q)	Kenny de Schepper	Thiemo de Bakker	Thomas Fabbiano (Q)
Jerzy Janowicz [14]	Philipp Petzschner (Q)	Andrey Kuznetsov	Pablo Cuevas (PR)
Ernests Gulbis [30]	Andrej Martin (LL)	Thomaz Bellucci	Nick Kyrgios (Q)
Grega Žemlja	Santiago Giraldo	Horacio Zeballos	Guido Pella
Marinko Matosevic	Robin Haase	Albert Ramos	Kei Nishikori [11]
Filippo Volandri	Adrian Ungur	Albert Montañés	Collin Altamirano (WC)
Fernando Verdasco [27]	Rhyne Williams (WC)	Vasek Pospisil	Ryan Harrison (WC)

2013 US Open – Women's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Serena Williams [1]		Victoria Azarenka [2]
Semifinals out
Li Na [5]		Flavia Pennetta
Quarterfinals out
Carla Suárez Navarro [18]	Ekaterina Makarova [24]	Roberta Vinci [10]	Daniela Hantuchová
4th round out
Sloane Stephens [15]	Angelique Kerber [8]	Agnieszka Radwańska [3]	Jelena Janković [9]
Camila Giorgi (Q)	Simona Halep [21]	Alison Riske (WC)	Ana Ivanovic [13]
3rd round out
Yaroslava Shvedova	Jamie Hampton [23]	Zheng Jie	Kaia Kanepi [25]
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [32]	Sabine Lisicki [16]	Kurumi Nara (Q)	Laura Robson [30]
Caroline Wozniacki [6]	Karin Knapp	Maria Kirilenko [12]	Svetlana Kuznetsova [27]
Petra Kvitová [7]	Julia Glushko (Q)	Christina McHale	Alizé Cornet [26]
2nd round out
Galina Voskoboeva	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner (LL)	Kristina Mladenovic	Urszula Radwańska
Venus Williams	CoCo Vandeweghe (Q)	Anna Karolína Schmiedlová	Eugenie Bouchard
María Teresa Torró Flor	Ashleigh Barty (WC)	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Paula Ormaechea
Alisa Kleybanova (PR)	Sorana Cîrstea [19]	Caroline Garcia	Sofia Arvidsson
Chanelle Scheepers	Hsieh Su-wei	Elena Vesnina [22]	Lucie Šafářová
Michelle Larcher de Brito (Q)	Donna Vekić	Peng Shuai	Sara Errani [4]
Bojana Jovanovski	Mona Barthel [28]	Sachia Vickery (WC)	Victoria Duval (Q)
Alexandra Dulgheru	Elina Svitolina	Ajla Tomljanović (Q)	Alexandra Wozniak
1st round out
Francesca Schiavone	Monica Niculescu	Olga Puchkova	Magdaléna Rybáriková [29]
Lara Arruabarrena	Anabel Medina Garrigues	Irina-Camelia Begu	Mandy Minella
Kirsten Flipkens [12]	Kiki Bertens	Aleksandra Krunić (Q)	Lauren Davis
Vania King (WC)	Stefanie Vögele	Karolína Plíšková	Lucie Hradecká
Sílvia Soler Espinosa	Marina Erakovic	Estrella Cabeza Candela	Virginie Razzano (WC)
Polona Hercog	Mathilde Johansson	Kimiko Date-Krumm	Vera Dushevina (Q)
Madison Keys	Monica Puig	Alexandra Cadanțu	Sharon Fichman (Q)
Lourdes Domínguez Lino	Shelby Rogers (WC)	Petra Cetkovská (PR)	Olga Govortsova
Duan Yingying (Q)	Chanel Simmonds (Q)	Jana Čepelová	Klára Zakopalová [31]
Annika Beck	Grace Min (Q)	Lesia Tsurenko	Tímea Babos
Yanina Wickmayer	Eleni Daniilidou	Mariana Duque Mariño	Heather Watson
Mallory Burdette	Yvonne Meusburger	Nicole Gibbs (WC)	Olivia Rogowska (LL)
Misaki Doi	Andrea Petkovic	Tsvetana Pironkova	Johanna Larsson
Nadia Petrova [20]	Mirjana Lučić-Baroni (Q)	Maria Sanchez (WC)	Samantha Stosur [11]
Anna Tatishvili	Varvara Lepchenko	Julia Görges	Dominika Cibulková [17]
Maria João Koehler (Q)	Casey Dellacqua (Q)	Vesna Dolonc	Dinah Pfizenmaier

•   Rafael Nadal defeated   Novak Djokovic, 6–2, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1

• This was Nadal's 13th career Grand Slam singles title and his 2nd at the US Open

•   Serena Williams defeated   Victoria Azarenka, 7–5, 6–7^(6–8), 6–1

• This was Williams' 17th career Grand Slam singles title and her 5th at the US Open

•   Leander Paes /   Radek Štěpánek defeated   Alexander Peya /   Bruno Soares, 6–1, 6–3

• This was Paes' 8th career Grand Slam doubles title and his 3rd at the US Open

• This was Štěpánek's 2nd career Grand Slam doubles title and his 1st at the US Open

•   Andrea Hlaváčková /   Lucie Hradecká defeated   Ashleigh Barty /   Casey Dellacqua, 6–7^(4–7), 6–1, 6–4

• This was Hlaváčková's 2nd career Grand Slam doubles title and her 1st at the US Open

• This was Hradecká's 2nd career Grand Slam doubles title and her 1st at the US Open

•   Andrea Hlaváčková /   Max Mirnyi defeated   Abigail Spears /   Santiago González, 7–6^(7–5), 6–3

• This was Hlaváčková's 1st career Grand Slam mixed doubles title

• This was Mirnyi's 4th career Grand Slam mixed doubles title and his 3rd at the US Open

•   Borna Ćorić defeated   Thanasi Kokkinakis, 3–6, 6–3, 6–1

•   Ana Konjuh defeated   Tornado Alicia Black, 3–6, 6–4, 7–6^(8–6)

•   Kamil Majchrzak /   Martin Redlicki defeated   Quentin Halys /   Frederico Ferreira Silva, 6–3, 6–4

•   Barbora Krejčíková /   Kateřina Siniaková defeated   Belinda Bencic /   Sara Sorribes Tormo, 6–3, 6–4

•   Stéphane Houdet defeated   Shingo Kunieda, 6–2, 6–4

•   Aniek van Koot defeated   Sabine Ellerbrock 3–6, 6–2, 7–6^(7–3)

•   Lucas Sithole defeated   David Wagner, 3–6, 6–4, 6–4

•   Michaël Jérémiasz /   Maikel Scheffers defeated   Gustavo Fernández /   Joachim Gérard, 6–0, 4–6, 6–3

•   Jiske Griffioen /   Aniek van Koot defeated   Sabine Ellerbrock /   Yui Kamiji, 6–3, 6–4

•   David Wagner /   Nick Taylor defeated   Andrew Lapthorne /   Lucas Sithole, 6–0, 2–6, 6–3

The following are the seeded players. Ranking and seeding are according to ATP and WTA rankings on August 19, 2013.

Seed	Rank	Player	Points Before	Points defending	Points won	Points After	Status
1	1	Novak Djokovic	10,980	1,200	1,200	10,980	Runner-up, lost to   Rafael Nadal [2]
2	2	Rafael Nadal	8,860	0	2,000	10,860	Champion, defeated   Novak Djokovic [1]
3	3	Andy Murray	8,700	2,000	360	7,060	Quarterfinals lost to   Stanislas Wawrinka [9]
4	4	David Ferrer	7,210	720	360	6,850	Quarterfinals lost to   Richard Gasquet [8]
5	5	Tomáš Berdych	5,075	720	180	4,535	Fourth round lost to   Stanislas Wawrinka [9]
6	6	Juan Martín del Potro	4,740	360	45	4,425	Second round lost to   Lleyton Hewitt
7	7	Roger Federer	4,695	360	180	4,515	Fourth round lost to   Tommy Robredo [19]
8	9	Richard Gasquet	2,625	180	720	3,165	Semifinals lost to   Rafael Nadal [2]
9	10	Stanislas Wawrinka	2,610	180	720	3,150	Semifinals lost to   Novak Djokovic [1]
10	11	Milos Raonic	2,555	180	180	2,555	Fourth round lost to   Richard Gasquet [8]
11	12	Kei Nishikori	2,405	90	10	2,325	First round lost to   Dan Evans (Q)
12	13	Tommy Haas	2,185	10	90	2,265	Third round lost to   Mikhail Youzhny [21]
13	14	John Isner	2,025	90	90	2,025	Third round lost to   Philipp Kohlschreiber [22]
14	15	Jerzy Janowicz	2,110	10	10	2,110	First round lost to   Máximo González (Q)
15	16	Nicolás Almagro	2,110	180	10	1,940	First round lost to   Denis Istomin
16	18	Fabio Fognini	2,025	90	10	1,945	First round lost to   Rajeev Ram
17	20	Kevin Anderson	1,740	10	45	1,775	Second round lost to   Marcos Baghdatis
18	21	Janko Tipsarević	1,685	360	180	1,505	Fourth round lost to   David Ferrer [4]
19	22	Tommy Robredo	1,620	45	360	1,935	Quarterfinals lost to   Rafael Nadal [2]
20	23	Andreas Seppi	1,550	10	90	1,630	Third round lost to   Denis Istomin
21	24	Mikhail Youzhny	1,475	10	360	1,825	Quarterfinals lost to   Novak Djokovic [1]
22	25	Philipp Kohlschreiber	1,445	180	180	1,445	Fourth round lost to   Rafael Nadal [2]
23	26	Feliciano López	1,435	90	90	1,435	Third round lost to   Milos Raonic [10]
24	27	Benoît Paire	1,415	45	10	1,380	First round lost to   Alex Bogomolov Jr.
25	28	Grigor Dimitrov	1,375	10	10	1,375	First round lost to   João Sousa
26	29	Sam Querrey	1,310	90	45	1,265	Second round lost to   Adrian Mannarino
27	30	Fernando Verdasco	1,325	90	10	1,245	First round lost to   Ivan Dodig
28	31	Juan Mónaco	1,275	10	10	1,275	First round lost to   Florian Mayer
29	32	Jürgen Melzer	1,425	10	10	1,425	First round lost to   Evgeny Donskoy
30	33	Ernests Gulbis	1,191	45	10	1,156	First round lost to   Andreas Haider-Maurer
31	34	Julien Benneteau	1,185	45	90	1,230	Third round lost to   Tomáš Berdych [5]
32	35	Dmitry Tursunov	1,190	16	90	1,264	Third round lost to   Richard Gasquet [8]

Rank	Player	Points	Points defending	Points won	New points	Withdrew due to
8	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	3,470	45	0	3,425	Knee injury[12]
17	Gilles Simon	2,040	90	0	1,950	Pertussis[13]
19	Marin Čilić	1,805	360	0	1,445	Suspension[14]

Seed	Rank	Player	Points Before	Points defending	Points won	Points After	Status
1	1	Serena Williams	12,260	2,000	2,000	12,260	Champion, defeated   Victoria Azarenka [2]
2	2	Victoria Azarenka	9,505	1,400	1,400	9,505	Runner-up, lost to   Serena Williams [1]
3	4	Agnieszka Radwańska	6,335	280	280	6,335	Fourth round lost to   Ekaterina Makarova [24]
4	5	Sara Errani	5,125	900	100	4,325	Second round lost to   Flavia Pennetta
5	6	Li Na	4,825	160	900	5,565	Semifinals lost to   Serena Williams [1]
6	8	Caroline Wozniacki	3,490	5	160	3,645	Third round lost to   Camila Giorgi (Q)
7	9	Petra Kvitová	3,290	280	160	3,170	Third round lost to   Alison Riske (WC)
8	10	Angelique Kerber	3,420	280	280	3,420	Fourth round lost to   Carla Suárez Navarro [18]
9	11	Jelena Janković	3,125	160	280	3,245	Fourth round lost to   Li Na [5]
10	12	Roberta Vinci	3,065	500	500	3,065	Quarterfinals lost to   Flavia Pennetta
11	13	Samantha Stosur	3,210	500	5	2,715	First round lost to   Victoria Duval (Q)
12	14	Kirsten Flipkens	2,961	160	5	2,806	First round lost to   Venus Williams
13	15	Ana Ivanovic	2,940	500	280	2,720	Fourth round lost to   Victoria Azarenka [2]
14	16	Maria Kirilenko	2,620	160	160	2,620	Third round lost to   Simona Halep [21]
15	17	Sloane Stephens	2,925	160	280	3,045	Fourth round lost to   Serena Williams [1]
16	18	Sabine Lisicki	2,615	5	160	2,770	Third round lost to   Ekaterina Makarova [24]
17	19	Dominika Cibulková	2,281	160	5	2,126	First round lost to   Elina Svitolina
18	20	Carla Suárez Navarro	2,375	100	500	2,775	Quarterfinals lost to   Serena Williams [1]
19	21	Sorana Cîrstea	2,250	100	100	2,250	Second round lost to   Kurumi Nara (Q)
20	22	Nadia Petrova	2,212	280	5	1,937	First round lost to   Julia Glushko (Q)
21	23	Simona Halep	2,450	100	280	2,630	Fourth round lost to   Flavia Pennetta
22	24	Elena Vesnina	2,125	100	100	2,125	Second round lost to   Karin Knapp
23	25	Jamie Hampton	1,881	5	160	2,036	Third round lost to   Sloane Stephens [15]
24	26	Ekaterina Makarova	1,935	160	500	2,275	Quarterfinals lost to   Li Na [5]
25	27	Kaia Kanepi	1,781	0	160	1,941	Third round lost to   Angelique Kerber [8]
26	28	Alizé Cornet	1,730	100	160	1,790	Third round lost to   Victoria Azarenka [2]
27	29	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1,679	0	160	1,839	Third round lost to   Flavia Pennetta
28	30	Mona Barthel	1,550	5	100	1,645	Second round lost to   Alison Riske (WC)
29	31	Magdaléna Rybáriková	1,575	160	5	1,420	First round lost to   Patricia Mayr-Achleitner (LL)
30	32	Laura Robson	1,561	280	160	1,441	Third round lost to   Li Na [5]
31	33	Klára Zakopalová	1,600	5	5	1,600	First round lost to   Hsieh Su-wei
32	34	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1,560	100	160	1,620	Third round lost to   Agnieszka Radwańska [3]

Rank	Player	Points	Points defending	Points won	New points	Withdrew due to
3	Maria Sharapova	8,766	900	0	7,866	Right shoulder bursitis[15]
7	Marion Bartoli	4,365	500	0	3,865	Retired from tennis[16]

Below are the lists of the wild card awardees entering in the main draws.

1.   Kaitlyn Christian /   Dennis Novikov
2.   Victoria Duval /   Donald Young
3.   Martina Hingis /   Mahesh Bhupathi
4.   Megan Moulton-Levy /   Eric Butorac
5.   Melanie Oudin /   Austin Krajicek
6.   Sabrina Santamaria /   Jarmere Jenkins
7.   Yasmin Schnack /   Eric Roberson
8.   Sloane Stephens /   Jack Sock

The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:

The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew with injuries, suspensions or personal reasons.

Men's Singles

•   Pablo Cuevas
•   Juan Mónaco
•   Philipp Petzschner
•   Guillaume Rufin
•   Dmitry Tursunov

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