Thursday 6 September 2018 18:00, UK
The stage is set, the players are ready and Flushing Meadows is about to welcome the world's best wheelchair tennis players to battle it out for Grand Slam glory.
Among the contenders are four British players at the top of their game who will compete in both singles and doubles.
In the men's division are defending doubles champions Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett while Lucy Shuker leads the charge in the women's division.
And looking to defend his 2017 doubles title and go one better than last year's runners-up honours in singles is Britain's top quad Andy Lapthorne.
So what are the chances of a British player being crowned champion at the final Slam of 2018? Sky Sports spoke to the next generation of British wheelchair tennis talent to get their opinion.
Abbie Breakwell, Ruby Bishop and Greg Slade are not only gold medallists themselves having just triumphed at the recent School Games they are also currently counted among the next generation of Britain's top tennis talent as part of the Tennis Foundation's Junior Futures Potential Programme.
The groundbreaking programme and first of its kind within the sport has identified seven of the country's brightest young tennis aces, and sees them attending training camps and learning about all aspects of the game on and off court in order to help them transition to senior level competition.
In the quads division, all three are unanimous when it comes who they would like to see lift both the singles and doubles trophies.
Speaking to Sky Sports, Ruby said: "Andy (Lapthorne) and I have the same coach so I'd love to see him get the win.
"He's made it to a lot of finals this year and he's consistently finishing as runner-up but I honestly think he can go all the way this time."
Lapthorne last won the singles title in New York in 2014, an achievement which he always counts among one of his greatest on-court achievements, and has beaten all three of the other players in the draw - David Wagner, Dylan Alcott and Bryan Barten - multiple times throughout his career.
His most recent big singles win over one of them coming only last week in the semi-finals of the last Super Series of the year in St Louis, where he claimed a straight-sets victory over Paralympic gold medallist and current Australian Open champion Alcott.
He'll open his 2018 campaign in the round-robin stages against World No1 Wagner, his rival on the singles court but the player with whom he's formed a formidable doubles partnership at the Slams.
"It could be very close," Greg said. "The top quads, they're all playing at such a high level right now and it is going to be tough for all four.
"Andy let me train with him for a bit and I've seen how powerful his shots can be so like Ruby it's him who I'd love to see him succeed and lift that trophy and I think he can do it."
"You can see that Diede (de Groot) has the potential to go and win it this year," Abbie told Sky Sports. "She's high up in the rankings, where she just seems to keep extending her lead over the other women and she's winning a lot of tournaments."
Ruby agrees with Abbie, describing De Groot as "tough to beat right now" and added: "She's got that spin on the ball that's so tough for anyone who has to take her on."
A week after becoming the first woman in wheelchair tennis to win both singles and doubles titles in the same year at Wimbledon 2018, the Netherlands' Diede de Groot went on to do the double again at the British Open in Nottingham.
And for the past 18 months she's been the talk of the women's draw, making her mark on senior level competition in much the same way as Britain's Alfie Hewett has done in the men's division, and developing a rivalry with Japan's Yui Kamiji that keeps everyone on the edge of their seats.
She's got some tough openers though as both singles and doubles competition will be replays of her Wimbledon finals just months ago.
In singles, she will begin her 2018 US Open against compatriot Aniek van Koot, who claimed victory over her just last week in the semi-finals in St Louis.
And in doubles will be taking on Britain's Lucy Shuker, who will be teaming up once again with the player she made it all the way to this year's Wimbledon final with, Sabine Ellerbrock.
Greg is hoping for only one outcome to that semi-final doubles match-up though.
"I so want to see Lucy go one further and lift the title with Sabine and I really think they can do it," he said. "They work well together as a team and I see no reason why they can't become US Open champions."
The one draw though that all three of the next generation cannot easily call is the men's open division.
"It's wide open and all about who brings their best game on the day really," Abbie said. "It's so close it's a matter of one or two points in a game that will decide it.
"I'm hoping it's going to be an and all-Brit final between Gordon and Alfie but you never know. Shingo's (Kunieda) really good at the minute as he's beaten both of them before so they've just to be on their A-game and hopefully they can go all the way."
The US Open draw has consistently seen world No 1 Shingo Kunieda and world No 3 Stephane Houdet share the headlines when it comes to glory in New York, but with all eight men in the draw so closely matched, this year's singles and doubles draws are going to be anything but predictable.
It will be a match-up of two former world No 1s for Reid as he will take on Gustavo Fernandez and Hewett opens his campaign against an in-form Joachim Gerard.
So neither of the Brits have easy first matches but they have both have the game to come out on top against their quarter-final opponents.
And Ruby predicts Flushing Meadows will see a replay of last week's Super Series singles final between Britain's Hewett and Kunieda in St Louis, which saw the Brit come out on top 7-6 (7-2) 6-4 and level their 2018 head to head at two wins apiece.
She said: "I really think we'll see those two in the final and it will go down to a tie-break but Alfie will pull through right at the end, you know, standard Alfie."
And in the men's doubles, where Hewett and Reid go in as defending champions, it's an even tougher call with any of the four partnerships having the potential to make it through to the final and lift the trophy. Greg firmly believes we should back the Brits.
"It's Alfie and Gordon all the way, any day of the week," he said. "Maybe a few tie-breaks and moments where it feels like they're playing catch-up but they're used to that.
"They've got this 100 per cent, they're going to defend that title no doubt about it."
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