2022 US Open – Men's singles

Carlos Alcaraz defeated Casper Ruud in the final, 6–4, 2–6, 7–6(7–1), 6–3 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2022 US Open. It was his first major title. He claimed the world No. 1 singles ranking with the win; Ruud, Rafael Nadal, Daniil Medvedev, and Stefanos Tsitsipas were also in contention for the top position. Alcaraz saved a match point en route to the title, in the quarterfinals against Jannik Sinner. Alcaraz became the youngest major champion since Nadal at the 2005 French Open, the youngest US Open champion since Pete Sampras in 1990, the first man born in the 2000s to win a major singles title, and the youngest man to be ranked world No. 1, surpassing Lleyton Hewitt's record. At 23 hours and 39 minutes of play duration across his seven matches, Alcaraz spent the longest time on court in major history (a record later broken by Medvedev at the 2024 Australian Open). Ruud became the first Norwegian to reach the final.

Medvedev was the defending champion, but lost in the fourth round to Nick Kyrgios. Medvedev became the first man outside the Big Four to be the top seed at a major since Andy Roddick at the 2004 Australian Open.

This marked the third consecutive US Open where a player claimed his first major title, after Dominic Thiem in 2020 and Medvedev in 2021. The quarterfinal line-up guaranteed a first-time major champion, while the semifinal line-up marked the first time all four players made their US Open semifinal debut since the inaugural edition in 1881.

Frances Tiafoe became the first American man to reach the semifinals since Roddick in 2006, and the semifinals of any major since John Isner at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships. Tiafoe also became the first African American man to reach the semifinals since Arthur Ashe in 1972 and the first to reach any major semifinal since MaliVai Washington in 1996. Sinner became the youngest man to reach the quarterfinals at all four majors since Novak Djokovic in 2008.

Nadal was vying for a record-extending 23rd major singles title, but lost in the fourth round to Tiafoe. That marked the first US Open since 2000 and the first major since the 2017 Australian Open with neither of the top two seeded men reaching the quarterfinals. Three-time champion and nine-time finalist Djokovic withdrew prior to the tournament as he could not travel to the United States, due to not having complied with the federal government's vaccination policy for non-US citizens against COVID-19.

This was the first edition of US Open to feature a 10-point tie-break, when the score reaches six games all in the deciding set. Pedro Cachin defeated Aljaž Bedene in the first round in the first main-draw 10-point tie-break at the US Open.

Seeds
• Daniil Medvedev (fourth round)

• 🇪🇸 Rafael Nadal (fourth round)

• 🇪🇸 Carlos Alcaraz (champion)

• Stefanos Tsitsipas (first round)

• 🇳🇴 Casper Ruud (final)

• 🇨🇦 Félix Auger-Aliassime (second round)

• 🇬🇧 Cameron Norrie (fourth round)

• 🇵🇱 Hubert Hurkacz (second round)

• Andrey Rublev (quarterfinals)

• 🇺🇸 Taylor Fritz (first round)

• 🇮🇹 Jannik Sinner (quarterfinals)

• 🇪🇸 Pablo Carreño Busta (fourth round)

• 🇮🇹 Matteo Berrettini (quarterfinals)

• 🇦🇷 Diego Schwartzman (third round)

•  Marin Čilić (fourth round)

• 🇪🇸 Roberto Bautista Agut (first round)

• 🇧🇬 Grigor Dimitrov (second round)

• 🇦🇺 Alex de Minaur (third round)

• 🇨🇦 Denis Shapovalov (third round)

• 🇬🇧 Dan Evans (third round)

•  Botic van de Zandschulp (second round)

• 🇺🇸 Frances Tiafoe (semifinals)

• 🇦🇺 Nick Kyrgios (quarterfinals)

• 🇦🇷 Francisco Cerúndolo (first round)

•  Borna Ćorić (second round)

• 🇮🇹 Lorenzo Musetti (third round)

• Karen Khachanov (semifinals)

•  Holger Rune (third round)

• 🇺🇸 Tommy Paul (third round)

• 🇺🇸 Maxime Cressy (first round, retired)

•  Nikoloz Basilashvili (first round)

• 🇷🇸 Miomir Kecmanović (second round)

Seeded players
The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP rankings as of August 22, 2022. Rankings and points before are as of August 29, 2022.

Points for the 2021 tournament were not mandatory and are included in the table below only if they counted toward the player's ranking as of August 29, 2022. Players who are not defending points from the 2021 tournament will instead have their 19th best result replaced by their points from the 2022 tournament.

† This column shows either the player's points from the 2021 tournament or his 19th best result (shown in brackets). Only ranking points counting toward the player's ranking as of August 29, 2022, are reflected in the column.

Withdrawn players
The following players would have been seeded, but withdrew before the tournament began.

Wild cards
• 🇦🇺 Rinky Hijikata

• 🇫🇷 Ugo Humbert

• 🇺🇸 Emilio Nava

• 🇺🇸 Sam Querrey

• 🇺🇸 Ben Shelton

• 🇦🇹 Dominic Thiem

• 🇺🇸 Learner Tien

• 🇺🇸 J. J. Wolf Source:

Protected ranking
• Stan Wawrinka (22)

•  Borna Ćorić (27)

• 🇬🇧 Kyle Edmund (48)

•  Aljaž Bedene (75)

Qualifiers
• 🇦🇷 Facundo Bagnis

• Nuno Borges

•  Gijs Brouwer

• 🇫🇷 Enzo Couacaud

• 🇦🇷 Federico Delbonis

• 🇺🇸 Christopher Eubanks

• 🇨🇴 Daniel Elahi Galán

• 🇸🇰 Norbert Gombos

• 🇺🇸 Brandon Holt

•  Nicolás Jarry

• Pavel Kotov

• 🇨🇿 Tomáš Macháč

• 🇩🇪 Maximilian Marterer

•  Alexander Ritschard

• 🇨🇳 Wu Yibing

• 🇨🇳 Zhang Zhizhen

Lucky losers
• 🇫🇷 Hugo Grenier

• 🇫🇷 Corentin Moutet

• 🇪🇸 Fernando Verdasco

Withdrawals
The entry list was released by the United States Tennis Association based on the ATP rankings for the week of July 18. • Lloyd Harris (46) → replaced by  Tim van Rijthoven (101)

• 🇫🇷 Gaël Monfils (20) → replaced by 🇯🇵 Taro Daniel (102)

• 🇩🇪 Alexander Zverev (2)  → replaced by 🇺🇸 Stefan Kozlov (103)

• 🇺🇸 Reilly Opelka (17) → replaced by 🇺🇸 Jack Sock (104)

• 🇷🇸 Novak Djokovic (7)  → replaced by 🇫🇷 Corentin Moutet (LL)

• 🇧🇴 Hugo Dellien (74) → replaced by 🇪🇸 Fernando Verdasco (LL)

• 🇪🇸 Pablo Andújar (92) → replaced by 🇫🇷 Hugo Grenier (LL)