Bookies' favourite Serena Williams has been seeded 28th at the US Open, which is sticking with its policy of following the world rankings.
World number one Caroline Wozniacki is top seed
Bookies' favourite Serena Williams has been seeded 28th at the US Open, which is sticking with its policy of following the world rankings instead of taking into account players' past performances.
Williams has won 13 Grand Slam titles and is as short as 6/4 with some oddsmakers to add a 14th in New York, where she has won three times.
The former world number one also recently won consecutive hard-court tournaments in Stanford and Toronto.
The American is currently ranked 29th, up from 175th in July, a few weeks after she returned to the tour following nearly a year off because of a series of health problems.
Top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki is seeded one, despite never having won a Grand Slam and with just one final to her name - a defeat at Flushing Meadows to Kim Clijsters two years ago.
Russian Vera Zvonareva is seeded two. Two-time reigning US Open champion Clijsters, currently ranked third in the world, will miss the tournament with a stomach muscle injury.
Women's seeds:
1 Caroline Wozniacki (Den); 2 Vera Zvonareva (Rus); 3 Maria Sharapova (Rus); 4 Victoria Azarenka (Blrs); 5 Petra Kvitova (Cze); 6 Li Na (Chi); 7 Francesca Schiavone (Ita); 8 Marion Bartoli (Fra); 9 Sam Stosur (Aus); 10 Andrea Petkovic (Ger); 11 Jelena Jankovic (Ser); 12 Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol); 13 Peng Shuai (Chi); 14 Dominika Cibulkova (Svk); 15 Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus); 16 Ana Ivanovic (Ser); 17 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Rus); 18 Roberta Vinci (Ita); 19 Julia Goerges (Ger); 20 Yanina Wickmayer (Bel); 21 Daniela Hantuchova (Svk); 22 Sabine Lisicki (Ger); 23 Shahar Peer (Isr); 24 Nadia Petrova (Rus); 25 Maria Kirilenko (Rus); 26 Flavia Pennetta (Ita); 27 Lucie Safarova (Cze); 28 Serena Williams (USA); 29 Jarmila Gajdosova (Aus); 30 Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spn); 31 Kaia Kanepi (Est); 32 Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (Spn)
