WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Defending men's champion Andre Agassi and 1997winner Martina Hingis were seeded No. 1 today for next week's U.S.Open tennis championships.
Agassi, who edged Todd Martin in a five-set final last year, wasseeded No. 1 at America's premier tennis tournament for only thesecond time in his career. He was the top seed in 1995 when he lostthe title match to Pete Sampras, and he was unseeded when he won theU.S. Open in 1994.
Agassi being seeded No. 1 makes it the ninth consecutive year anAmerican has been top-seeded in the men's singles.
Brazil's Gustavo Kuerten, the reigning French Open champion,received the No. 2 seeding, joining Marcelo Rios of Chile (1998) andGuillermo Vilas of Argentina (1975) as the only South Americans to beseeded as high as No. 2 in U.S. Open history.
Hingis, who has played in the last three women's singles finals,is seeded No. 1 for a fourth consecutive year. Lindsay Davenport, the1998 winner, is seeded No. 2 for a third consecutive year, whileWimbledon champion Venus Williams is seeded No. 3 for a secondstraight year.
Reigning French Open champion Mary Pierce of France is seededfourth, followed by defending women's champion Serena Williams.
Jennifer Capriati is seeded No. 15, her first U.S. Open seedingsince 1993.
The seedings were made directly from the Aug. 21 Sanex WTA Tourrankings and ATP Tour Entry System.
Following Agassi and Kuerten in the men's rankings are: Norman,Sampras, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Marat Safin, Thomas Enqvist, AlexCorretja, Lleyton Hewitt, Cedric Pioline, Tim Henman, Juan CarlosFerrero, Franco Squillari, Nicolas Kiefer, Mark Philippoussis andNicolas Lapentti.
Monica Seles is seeded sixth in the women's singles, followed byConchita Martinez, Nathalie Tauziat, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, AnkeHuber, Sandrine Testud, Anna Kournikova, Amanda Coetzer, DominiqueVan Roost, Capriati and Julie Halard-Decugis.
Associated Press
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