New York: The latest example of John Isner's knack for playing marathon matches - and, lately, losing them - was a 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 third-round exit at the US Open against Philipp Kohlschreiber that ended at 2:26 am on Monday, tying the tournament record for latest finish. Isner left all four Grand Slam tournaments this year with five-set losses, and he didn't make it past the third round...
02:48 PM, Sep 03, 2012
New York: Veteran Indian tennis star Leander Paes enjoyed an all-win outing to enter the quarter-finals of both the men's doubles and mixed doubles events but it was a mixed day for Sania Mirza in the season's last Grand Slam - the US Open - here. Paes and his Czech men's doubles partner Radek Stepanek sailed into the last-eight stage after the fifth seeds defeated the American-Australian combination of the...
01:00 PM, Sep 03, 2012
London: Actress Nicole Kidman and her singer husband Keith Urban indulged in some public display of affection at the US Open in New York. The country singer played up to the cameras after spotting himself and his wife on the giant screen at the tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows. He especially pounced on his wife and gave her a smack on the lips, reported Sun online. The crowd at the...
12:59 PM, Sep 03, 2012
New York: Maria Sharapova is back in the US Open quarter-finals for the first time since winning the title in 2006. Shrieking loudly during points, screaming and pumping her fist after winning them, Sharapova grabbed control after a 75-minute rain delay to beat 19th-seeded Nadia Petrova 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 on Sunday night. Sharapova improved to 11-0 this season in three-set matches. She trailed 2-0 in the final set against Petrova,...
09:12 AM, Sep 03, 2012
New York: Defending champion Sam Stosur ended the giant-killing run of 18-year-old Briton Laura Robson with a hard-fought 6-4, 6-4 win in the fourth round of the U.S. Open on Sunday. The Australian came from a break down to win the first set and held off a late fight-back by Robson in the second to advance to the last eight after one hour, 38 minutes. Robson saved eight match points...
08:40 AM, Sep 03, 2012
New York: Channeling his inner Jimmy Connors, Andy Roddick pounded a forehand passing shot down the line to win a 20-stroke point and thrust both arms overhead, motioning to the US Open spectators to make more noise. Moments later, Roddick hit a volley into an open court and chugged back to the baseline, wagging his right index finger. Yes, Roddick is having a grand ol' time at his retirement party...
03:24 AM, Sep 03, 2012
New York: Juan Martin del Potro beat countryman Leonardo Mayer in a 20-point tiebreaker, which included a shot by Mayer that bounced off the net post while headed wide and landed in, to return to the fourth round of the US Open for the first time since his 2009 title run. The seventh-seeded Argentine won 6-3, 7-5, 7-6 (9) in 3 hours, 20 minutes Sunday. Del Potro was unable to...
03:15 AM, Sep 03, 2012
New York: The No. 4 seed David Ferrer saved five set points in a first-set tiebreaker on Sunday and went on to defeat 2001 champion Lleyton Hewitt 7-6 (9), 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 in the third round of the US Open. After saving the fifth set point, Ferrer scrambled from side to side at the net to pick up back-to-back volleys by Hewitt, then angled off a backhand winner to set...
02:01 AM, Sep 03, 2012
New York: Novak Djokovic woke up early and got things over with in a hurry Sunday at the US Open. Serving as the warm-up act for Andy Roddick in Arthur Ashe Stadium, the defending champion completed his second straight match without facing a break point and defeated No. 31 Julien Benneteau 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the fourth round for the sixth straight year. Djokovic needed only 1 hour,...
12:10 AM, Sep 03, 2012
New York: Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands entered the women's doubles third round with a straight-set win on a mixed day for the Indians in the US Open here. The 13th seeded combination of Sania and Bethanie got the better of Croatian Darija Jurak and Hungary's Katalin Marosi 6-4 6-2. The Indo-American pair now have a tough match on hand as they will take on second-seeded Italians...
04:42 PM, Sep 02, 2012
New York: Kim Clijsters hit her last shot as a pro tennis player into the net. Doubtful anyone will remember that, though. Smiling right until the end in front of 2,800 buzzing fans on Court 17 at Flushing Meadows, Clijsters officially made her way into retirement on Saturday night. She and mixed doubles partner Bob Bryan fell 6-2, 3-6, 12-10 to Ekaterina Makarova and Bruno Soares in a back-and-forth match...
08:33 AM, Sep 02, 2012
New York: Serena Williams does not enjoy viewing videos of her losses. Not one bit. She used to engage in that sort of film work, Williams said, but "it was so painful; it was like stabbing myself." So even though Williams knew her third-round opponent at the US Open would be the same woman she lost to at the Australian Open, preparing by studying a replay of that January defeat...
08:29 AM, Sep 02, 2012
New York: Second-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska beat former top-ranked player Jelena Jankovic in straight sets to match her best result at the US Open. Radwanska won 6-3, 7-5 on Saturday to make the fourth round at Flushing Meadows for the first time since 2008. The Pole was broken four times, but she converted six of seven break-point chances against the 30th-seeded Jankovic. Jankovic, who ascended to No. 1 in the rankings...
11:07 PM, Sep 01, 2012
New York: Indo-Czech pair of Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek moved into the U.S. Open third round here at the Flushing Meadows. The fifth seeds defeated unseeded Brazilian duo of Thomaz Bellucci and Joao Souza in straight sets, 7-5, 7-6 (3), in one hour and 45 minutes Friday. In the first set, Paes-Stepanek broke Bellucci-Souza on their second break point and sealed the set without losing a single game on...
02:58 PM, Sep 01, 2012
New York: Maria Sharapova continued her imperious march through the draw at the US Open as she crushed American college player Mallory Burdette 6-1 6-1 on Friday. The French Open champion needed just 58 minutes to send world number 252 Burdette packing. "I expected her to play a big, solid match," said Sharapova, the 2006 US Open champion. "She came out, she has pretty huge groundstrokes, and she likes to...
05:32 AM, Sep 01, 2012
New York: British teenager Laura Robson faces a former Grand Slam champion in her next match at the US Open, which shouldn't feel the least bit intimidating. Not after she beat four-time major winner Kim Clijsters and 2011 French Open champ Li Na in three days. Next up is Sam Stosur, the defending champion at Flushing Meadows. "She's obviously full of confidence and had two very, very good wins," Stosur...
01:46 AM, Sep 01, 2012
New York: Defending champion Novak Djokovic needed only 99 minutes to win and didn't face a single break point as he beat Rogerio Dutra Silva at the US Open on Friday, breezing into the third round. As Djokovic blasted past the Brazilian, three other former champions also advanced: Andy Roddick, Juan Martin del Potro and Lleyton Hewitt. Roddick, having announced this tournament will be his last, dominated Australian Bernard Tomic...
01:10 AM, Sep 01, 2012
