 Alright, so the US Open Drawers just come out and there are some crazy first round matches, but there are still some big names that are not playing on the women's side. Let's go over look at the withdrawal list. So we have a couple of players not playing on the WTA side. Shelby Rogers, she's pulled out. Krunic, Zong, McNally and Simona Halop have all pulled out of the US Open. Of course, Simona Halop's still waiting on her trial whether or not she'll be able to play tennis in the near future. OK, 32 seeds in this one for a Grand Slam. No one gets a buy in the first round and Sviantech, the world number one, the number one seed, the defending champion. She takes on Pedestrian in the first round, but she'll take on the winner of Ngonu versus Savill. So Sviantech's got a nice little start there. Davis takes on Kovnić. Winner of that will take on either a Qualifier or the 29-seed Chokireto. Then you've got Ostepenko, the 20th seed taken on Parleni. That's an interesting first round. Parleni's been in a little bit of form lately. Winner of that will take on either Kornay or Avanessian. Then you've got Grabber taking on Wong. Winner of that takes on either Perra or the number 16 seed Kudamatova. So Sviantech's biggest threat is Ostepenko. And maybe Kornay, Kornay has beaten her at Wimbledon last year, but I think the biggest threat is Ostepenko, and that's a fourth round potentially. So I think Sviantech's got a lot of chances of making it at least the fourth round. Next section of the draw, you've got Kovnić. Number 11 seed takes on Buxa. Winner of that will take on either a Qualifier or Wozniakki in the second round. Wozniakki-Kovnić, that's a flashback match. Could be a second round match. Then you've got a Qualifier taken on Brady. Winner of that will take on either Sacnević or Lynette, the 24-seed in the second round. Then you've got the 32-seed Mertens taking on a Qualifier. Winner of that will take on either Fruvatova or Collins in the second round. That's a fun first round. Then you've got a Qualifier taken on Andraeva. Winner of that will take on either another Qualifier or the number six seed Goff. But could be an interesting section. Kovnić, Wozniakki, Lynette made the semi-files of the Ostepenko. Of course, Goff's in form, probably the most informed player coming into this tournament on the women's side. And of course, this section of the draw will take on the Sviantech section. So we could be getting Sviantech take on Goff, which is what we got last week in Cincinnati, and it was a massive upset, or at least it was an upset in that match. Could be fun again to get the rematch. If you want to go a little different, you could go Sviantech versus Kovinova, who's been at good and on-hard courts this year. If you want to go a little bit different again, you could go Goff versus Ostepenko potentially. If you want to go a little more random from the Sviantech section. Next section of the draw, you've got the number four seed Rabakina taking on Kostuk. Winner of that will take on either Udvadi or Tomanovic in the second round. Then you've got Kallin Sky taking on Siniakova. Winner of that will take on either Day or the 30th seed Castella. Then you've got the 18th seed Azarenka taking on Ferro. Winner of that will take on either Zoo or Sharif in the second round. Then you've got a qualifier taken on Bitova. Winner of that will take on either Rakamova or another 15th seed Benchich in the second round. So, look, Rabakina's got a tough first round. Kostuk's been good at times this year. Tomanovic is back from injury. Took out Serena, of course, last year at the US Open. And Castella's been some big names. Azarenka we know, Benchich we know. Also difficult. So again, tricky draw for Rabakina. Get into the next section now. You've got the number 10 seed Mukava taking on Hunter. Winner of that will take on either Frey or Navarro in the second round. Then you've got Gacheva taking on Townsend. Winner of that will take on either Stevens or the number 19 seed Adajmaia. Fun first round there with Sloane Stevens taking on Adajmaia. Then you've got Kallinina, the 28th seed taken on Tomo. Winner of that will take on either a qualifier or Wong in the second round. Then you've got Schmidlova taken on Bandel. Winner of that will take on either Massarova or the number eight seed Sakari in the second round. Interesting section. Mukava, Adajmaia, Sakari, Stevens, Townsend. She's had some good matches in America, you know, at the US Open before. They're probably the names you'll be looking at. But again, this is kind of a really open section, this one. And of course, this section will take on the Rabakina section. So we could be getting Rabakina taken on Sakari. We could be getting Rabakina take on Mukava in the quarter finals. If you want to go something a little bit different, you can go with Benchich taking on either Sakari or Benchich taking on Mukava. Or if you want to go something really random, you could go Azarenka taken on Adajmaia if you want to go really out there. And of course, this section takes on the Shriontech section in the semis. So it could be Rabakina Shriontech. It could be Rabakina Goff. If you want to go a little different or it could be Shriontech versus Mukava or Shriontech versus Sakari, if you want to go with just those big names. And like I said, it could be a bunch of random names in that Rabakina section. All right, bottom half of the draw now we've got number seven seed Garcia taken on a qualifier. Winner of that will take on either Bolta or Parry in the second round. Then you've got Stearns taken on Tomova. Winner of that will take on either Towson or the number 27 seed Potapova. Then you've got the 22nd seed Alex Androva taken on Fernandez. Winner of that will take on either Andrescu or Sharenko in the second round. Then you've got Treverson taken on Putinseva. Winner of that will take on either a qualifier or the number nine seed Vondrusova in the second round. This section is wide open. I mean, Garcia's been in bad form this year. Vondrusova did well last week. The number nine seed could tree make it that far. Or someone like Andrescu or Fernandez who have obviously played well here before. Are they gonna do something here? So this section seems very open for me. Next part of the draw, you've got the number 14 seed Sampson overtaken on Lou. Winner of that will take on either Begu or Corpac in the second round. Then you've got two qualifiers going at it. Winner of that battle will go up against either Ruz or the number 17 seed Keyes. Of course, former finalists here. Then you've got the 26 seed Svedelina taken on Fridson. Winner of that will take on either Pavlia Chenkova or qualifier. Then you've got Teague taken on Marino. Winner of that will take on either Georgie or the number three seed Pagula. Crazy first round there between Pagula and Georgie. I mean, that is insane. But Pagula, if she can get through that match, it might actually be pretty good for her. Maybe a quarter final on the cards. And of course, this section will take on the Garcia section. So we could be getting Pagula versus Garcia. We could be getting Pagula versus Vondrusova. We could be getting Pagula versus Andrescu. If you wanna go a little bit out there and go with some players that have played well here before. Or if you wanna go the other way, you could go with Garcia taking on Svetolina or Garcia taking on Sampsonova. Or Vondrusova taking on Svetolina, which was what we saw at Wimbledon in the semi-finals a couple of weeks ago. And the bottom section of the draw, you've got Djibir taking on Osoria. Of course, the number five seed and defending finalist on Djibir. Winner of that will take on either Niskova or Bregel in the second round. Then you've got Maria taken on Mardic. Winner of that will take on either Kruger or the number 31 seed Buzkova. Then you've got the number 23 seed Zheng taking on Potorosko. Winner of that will take on either Strikava or Kinepi in the second round. Then you've got Montgomery taking on a qualifier. Winner of that will take on either Bronzetti on the number 12 seed Krijikava. And on Djibir, if she's a hundred percent, her foot's a little bit dodgy, but if she is a hundred percent coming in, she feels a lot better. I mean, there's a quarter final right there for her. Buzkova's been pretty good. Maybe someone to watch out for. Of course, Zheng can do things. Krijikava, I mean, she can light on fire as well. We know what she can do. And the bottom part of the draw, you've got Kazakina, the 13 seed taken on Parks. Winner of that will take on either Bogdan or Kennan in the second round. Then you've got Bedosa taking on Venus Williams. What a first round that is. Huge first round. Hopefully they're both healthy enough to play because of course they've both had injury buries over the last couple of months. Winner of that will take on either a qualifier or the 21 seed Vekage. Then you've got the 25 seed Pliskova taking on a qualifier. Winner of that will take on either Dolhide or Burl in the second round. Then you've got Blinkova taking on Burridge. Winner of that will take on either Zenevska or the number two seed Sabalenka. And look, Sabalenka has got to like her chances. I mean, she can beat Pliskova. She can beat both Vekage and Kazakina. Kennan's a bit wild. I mean, if she can get to the fourth round, she maybe can do some damage. She did beat Sabalenka earlier in the year. Bedosa, Venus, not sure what they can do. I mean, physically, are they able to hang with Sabalenka? And of course this section will take on the Jabur section. So we've got Sabalenka Jabur could be a quarter final. Or if you want to go with Sabalenka Krajikova, you know, if Krajikova could have a good week. But I mean, it's very hard to not see a rematch of what we saw last week in the Cincinnati quarterfinals between Jabur and Sabalenka. And we've seen them play the last couple of tournaments. We saw them play at Wimbledon as well in the semifinals. Could be a quarter final. Of course, this section of the draw will take on the Pagula section. So Sabalenka Pagula, it could be Sabalenka Garcia, Sabalenka Vondrusava. If you want to go a little bit different or it could be Jabur taking on Pagula, Jabur Vondrusava, a rematch of the Wimbledon final. It could be in the semis here or it could be Jabur versus Garcia. If Garcia does catch fire like she did last year. And in fact, they played in the semifinals last year. And there it is, the ladies draw. Let me know down in the comments below if you're watching this later. Who is going to win the US Open? Is it Shriontek again? Is it Sabalenka? I mean, Pagula? Goff? They've all played pretty well lately. I mean, Rebakken has got a tough draw. Man, I mean, I want to pick Sabalenka. I feel like Sabalenka's, I mean, especially with Jabur being a little injured and I think she can beat Pagula. But then I'll go with Sabalenka. I'm going to go with Sabalenka because I think that her draw is the nicest. We could get a random champion this year. That could happen too.