ANDY Murray has been seeded sixth for the US Open while Spain's Rafael Nadal will be the top seed in a grand-slam event for the first time in his career.
The newly-crowned world No1 will be followed by Roger Federer of Switzerland, Novak Djokovic of Serbia, David Ferrer of Spain and Nikolay Davydenko of Russia after the seedings were announced.
After spending 160 consecutive weeks ranked second, Na
dal officially became the new world No1 on Monday to end Federer's record reign of 237 successive weeks. A 12-time grand slam champion, Federer was the top seed at the last 18 majors.
American Andy Roddick, who won the event in 2003, is seeded eighth while countryman James Blake is No9.
Murray will be looking to overcome his disappointing early exit from the Beijing Olympics and rediscover the form that took him to success at the Cincinnati Masters.
The British No1's best effort in New York was in 2006 when he reached the fourth round, two years after shooting to prominence by winning the junior version.
Like the men's seedings, there were no major surprises in the women's draw, where top-ranked Ana Ivanovic is the number one, followed by Jelena Jankovic, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Serena Williams and Elena Dementieva.
French Open runner-up Dinara Safina is the number six seed, and Wimbledon champion Venus Williams is the seventh seed.
The singles draws for the US Open will be announced tomorrow.
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