Rivals of Ukrainian tennis players at the start of the selection of the last Grand Slam tournament of the season - US Open-2023 became known. In total, six representatives of Ukraine will play in the qualification: in the men's bracket - Vitaly Sachko and Oleksiy Krutykh, in the women's bracket - Dayana Yastremska, Katarina Zavatskaya, Yulia Starodubtseva and Daria Snigur. In the first round of the selection, Sachko will play against the Italian Raul Brancaccio, and Krutykh will fight with the finalist of the US Open-2017 Kevin Anderson from South Africa. Yastremskaya at the start of the qualification will meet with the British Heather Watson, Zavatskaya will play against the Hungarian Anna Bondar, Starodubtseva will face Celine Nef from Switzerland, and Snigur will try to beat Yuriko Lily Miyazaki from the UK. Five more Ukrainian tennis players - Elina Svitolina, Angelina Kalinina, Marta Kostyuk, Lesya Tsurenko and Kateryna Beindl - automatically got into the main draw of the US Open-2023. The main draw of the US Open starts on August 28 and will last until September 10.. This year's tournament prize pool will be a record $65 million..