The occasions in the past 26 years that the No 1 men's seed at the US Open has won the title. Ivan Lendl was the last, in 1987, successfully defending the title. The others since the first Open in 1968 were Laver (1969), Connors (1974, 1976) and McEnroe (1981, 1984).
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