 Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name's Cam Williams and with the US Open only a week away There are some players that played very well last year that have a lot of points to defend at this year's event We all know Rado Khannu is the defending champion But let's go through the players that played well here last year and what sort of points they have to defend So let's start with the WTO. So last year players that made the semi-finals or better We had Sabalankar and Sakuri both making the semi-finals. They're gonna have to defend 780 points over the next two weeks and they're both in the top 10 So they're playing for their ranking. Of course Fernandez with the runner-up She had 1,300 points to defend and Rado Khanna with that 2,000 points So a lot of players who are up the top of the rankings have the US Open as their sole Source of points and we could see some massive drops if those players don't do well over the next few weeks Let's grab a look at the ATP now having a look at the semi-finals onwards last year We had Zverev, Ozealia Seem both making the semis now We know Zverev isn't playing so he's gonna drop down the ranks after losing those 720 points he made last year But Felix Ozealia Seem, I think a lot of people forget that he actually made it this far last year I know I did. Djokovic has 1,200 points to defend and Medvedev's got 2,000 points to defend So he has a lot of points up for grabs the world number one and if he doesn't go back to back Or at least make the final his number one ranking is at stake Let's go have a look at the players that haven't got any points to defend or at least don't have that many points To defend Rafa Nadal has zero points to defend so everything that he does at the US Open will add to his total Meaning that he might be able to be world number one by the end of the event Paola Berasa, she also has only 70 points to defend Which means that she can sort of play the US Open without that burden of losing her spot in the rankings Cam Norrie, he's only got 10 points to defend after a poor US Open last year So he also will be looking to add to his total and Coco Goff She has only 70 points to defend at this year's US Open as well So if she has a good run and she is healthy, she could go back up the rankings and finally break in the top 10 So there are four players that have nothing to lose at this US Open Which might help them with no pressure of losing their ranking So there you go They're the players that have a lot of points to defend because of what they did last year and of course the players That don't have anything to defend they can play for free and of course that Rafa Medvedev battle that's going for the world number one That's gonna be very interesting to see let me know down in the comments below Is Rafa gonna be world number one and what is it gonna look like after these two weeks in the rankings?