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Submitted by dgec on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 22:08.
By: www.usopen.org

Roger Federer is feeling good physically and mentally and his first two matches at the 2010 US Open could not have gone much better.

On Thursday, the five-time US Open champion moved into the third round with a solid 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 victory over Andreas Beck of Germany, ranked No. 104 in the world. He was broken just once in the match and stayed firmly in control.

 

 

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Submitted by dgec on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 22:05.
By: www.usopen.org

Number four seed Jelena Jankovic survived a feisty match against Croatia's Mirjana Lucic with a 6-4 3-6 6-2 victory at the U.S. Open on Thursday that booked the Serb's ticket into the third round.

The pair had repeated spats with the umpire over a host of contested line calls during their two-hour two-minute match on another steamy day inside Louis Armstrong Stadium.

Prior to the contest, Lucic described being at the U.S. Open, only her second grand slam appearance since 2002, as "incredible."

 

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Submitted by dgec on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 22:02.
By: www.usopen.org

In a matchup that looked to be an intriguing contrast at the outset and then became a brutal war of attrition on a blistering Court 13, the qualifier Kei Nishikori of Japan, ranked No. 147 in the world, outlasted and upset Marin Cilic, the 11th-seeded Croat, 5-7, 7-6, 3-6, 7-6, 6-1.

The match lasted 4 hours, 59 minutes.

 

 

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Submitted by dgec on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 21:58.
By: www.usopen.org
Top seed Caroline Wozniacki must have been in some kind of hurry Thursday afternoon. In just 47 minutes, the 20-year-old Dane dispatched Chang Kai-Chen of Taipei in a 6-0, 6-0 rout.

Wozniacki used a strong attacking game against the world No. 84, but Chang deserves a little credit herself. She tried to implement the same strategy against Wozniacki, coming in to the net and going for her shots. Unfortunately for her, those shots just weren't finding the court, as they either sailed long or landed in the net.

 

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Submitted by dgec on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 21:55.
By: www.usopen.org
The 28-year-old Minnesota native famous for slimming down for the summer could be on his way to being remembered for something far more significant: a deep run in the 2010 US Open. Fish dispatched Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas in straight sets; 7-5, 6-0, 6-2 in front of a raucous, pro-American crowd at Louis Armstrong Stadium on Thursday.

"This is the spot that I want to be in," said Fish. "You want to be the favorite and winning a lot."

 

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Submitted by dgec on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 21:51.
By: www.usopen.org
Vera Zvonereva fought off the second set advances of Germany's Sabine Lisicki at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Thursday, booking her place in round three with a 6-1, 7-6 (7-5) win.

It was the first-ever meeting between Lisicki and Zvonereva, in a match that would see far more errors than winners.

 

 

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Submitted by dgec on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 12:28.
By: www.usatoday.com

In her first public comments about the mysterious injury and surgery that forced her to miss this year's U.S. Open, Serena Williams told USA TODAY on Wednesday evening that she had surgery to repair a lacerated tendon on the top of her right foot July 15 at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in Los Angeles a week after receiving 12 stitches in one foot and six in another when she was cut by glass at a restaurant in Munich.

 

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Submitted by dgec on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 12:24.
By: www.TENNIS.com

It wasn’t quite 11 A.M. in Ashe Stadium, but the seats were already burning, the Blackberries were blazing, and the few tentative spectators scattered around the stands appeared to be cowering in their seats, frightened of what the air might do to them. Whoever was programming the music over the loudspeakers did his best to make it all seem like fun by pumping out the Beatles’ cheerful “Good Day Sunshine.” Nobody was buying it.

 

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Submitted by dgec on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 09:01.
By: www.usopen.org

Roger Federer has heard the talk and read some of the press about him losing his greatness and starting the decline of his career.

The talk first started back in 2008 when he only won one Grand Slam tournament at the US Open and lost the world No.1 ranking. However, the mighty Federer rebounded to complete the career Grand Slam in 2009 with his first French Open title and then became the all-time Grand Slam tournament titles leader with his 15th at Wimbledon and regained the top ranking.

 

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Submitted by dgec on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 08:58.
By: www.usopen.org
Andy Roddick battled more than Janko Tipsarevic on Arthur Ashe Stadium Wednesday. A foot fault call in the third set sent him into a verbal tirade reminiscent of the one delivered by countrywoman Serena Williams on the same court last year.

But Roddick's bigger problem came not between his lips, but between his ears.

Once one of the more aggressive and powerful players on tour, the 2003 US Open champion pushed groundstrokes with little pace and less angle, rarely taking risks against an opportunistic opponent.

 

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