Editor's note: In selecting our picks, the "toughest road" must be by a player seeded in the top eight, and a "sleeper" is someone seeded 17th or lower.
So, you think this year's US Open is wide open?
Check out the Experts' Picks standings heading into the season's fourth and final major:
1. Kamakshi Tandon (75), 2. Cliff Drysdale (70), 3. Matt Wilansky (69), 4. Mary Joe Fernandez (67), 5. Chrissie Evert (43), 6. Pam Shriver (38),7. Brad Gilbert (36), 8. Patrick McEnroe (34), 9. Darren Cahill (32), 10. Howard Bryant (27), 11. Greg Garber (20), 12. Steve Weissman (19), 13. Melissa Isaacson (16), 14. Jim Caple (11).
Drysdale, the venerable broadcaster, and ESPN.com tennis editor Matt Wilansky thrust themselves into the top of the fray at Wimbledon, correctly picking Djokovic to win the title. Realistically, it's a four-person race with ESPN.com writer Tandon and Fernandez, an ESPN analyst, tightly bunched.
Wilansky may not be enshrined in the International Tennis Hall of Fame as Drysdale is, but he's only one point behind with a maximum of 94 points available in the categories of winner, sleeper and toughest road on both the men's and women's sides.
"I had a terrific clay-court season," Wilansky observed, sounding a bit like Rafael Nadal. "It will be a daunting task trying to take down Cliffie, but I will try my best."
With Rafa, the defending champion, out and the top-seeded Djokovic coming in with two losses in his past three outings, it's going to be interesting. Serena has won 12 of 13 matches since that bizarre exit in doubles, but she has some solid support from our experts.
Let's go to the picks:
Darren Cahill
Men's winner: Novak Djokovic
Women's winner: Serena Williams
Men's toughest road: Tomas Berdych
Women's toughest road: Maria Sharapova
Men's sleeper: David Goffin
Women's sleeper: Camilla Giorgi
Cliff Drysdale
Men's winner: Novak Djokovic
Women's winner: Serena Williams
Men's toughest road: Andy Murray
Women's toughest road: Petra Kvitova
Men's sleeper: Feliciani Lopez
Women's sleeper: Venus Williams
Chris Evert
Men's winner: Roger Federer
Women's winner: Serena Williams
Men's toughest road: Stan Wawrinka
Women's toughest road: Petra Kvitova
Men's sleeper: Gael Monfils
Women's sleeper: Madison Keys
Mary Joe Fernandez
Men's winner: Novak Djokovic
Women's winner: Serena Williams
Men's toughest road: Tomas Berdych
Women's toughest road: Petra Kvitova
Men's sleeper: Gael Monfils
Women's sleeper: Petra Kvitova
Brad Gilbert
Men's winner: Roger Federer
Women's winner: Simona Halep
Men's toughest road: Stan Wawrinka
Women's toughest road: Eugenie Bouchard
Men's sleeper: Steve Johnson
Women's sleeper: Svetlana Kuznetsova
Pam Shriver
Men's winner: Roger Federer
Women's winner: Serena Williams
Men's toughest road: Tomas Berdych
Women's toughest road: Eugenie Bouchard
Men's sleeper: Jerzy Janowicz
Women's sleeper: Sloane Stephens
Howard Bryant
Men's winner: Novak Djokovic
Women's winner: Serena Williams
Men's toughest road: Grigor Dimitrov
Women's toughest road: Simona Halep
Men's sleeper: Gael Monfils
Women's sleeper: Garbine Muguruza
Greg Garber
Men's winner: Novak Djokovic
Women's winner: Serena Williams
Men's toughest road: Tomas Berdych
Women's toughest road: Angelique Kerber
Men's sleeper: Feliciano Lopez
Women's sleeper: Sloane Stephens
Melissa Isaacson
Men's winner: Roger Federer
Women's winner: Serena Williams
Men's toughest road: Andy Murray
Women's toughest road: Petra Kvitova
Men's sleeper: Mikhail Youzhny
Women's sleeper: Madison Keys
Kamakshi Tandon
Men's winner: Roger Federer
Women's winner: Maria Sharapova
Men's toughest road: Tomas Berdych
Women's toughest road: Simona Halep
Men's sleeper: Gael Monfils
Women's sleeper: Venus Williams
Matt Wilansky
Men's winner: Roger Federer
Women's winner: Serena Williams
Men's toughest road: Tomas Berdych
Women's toughest road: Maria Sharapova
Men's sleeper: Gael Monfils
Women's sleeper: Andrea Petkovic