the US Open gets underway on Monday and as always there is a strong American contingent looking to take their home Grand Slam by storm plenty of attention will be on Coco goof and Jessica Pula in the women's draw while Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton headlin home interest in the men's draw however there is a huge pool of talent across both men's and women's draws ahead of us open Action we look at five unseated us stars to watch Taylor Townsen point one of the form players of the summer townzen is a top 50 ranked singles player for the first time and now looks to ride that form into her home major after winning The Wimbledon doubles title the 28-year-old lost in Canadian open qualifying but entered the main draw as a lucky loser and she thrived once in the draw beating fourth seed yena ostapenko on her way to the last eight before coming through qualifying to reach the round of 16 in Cincinnati a popular figure within the Us game the world number 48 could be primed to star in New York her draw Townson begins her campaign against Martina trison before a potential round two versus 26 seed Paula Bosa mikkelson is making headlines for all the wrong reasons at the moment with the world number 52 lucky not to be defaulted in his Winston Salem final loss to Lorenzo sonigo however there is no denying that Nicholson celebrating his 20th birthday today is an immense talent and in great form the 20-year-old will make his top 50 debut on Monday and has reached two finals this summer reaching a second straight Final in Newport before his Winston Salem run the Californian made his US Open debut last year reaching round two. his draw mikkelson faces us qualifier Elliot speed Siri in round one and could then face world number one genic Center in a blockbuster round two Clash