Can This Power Serb Play the Role of Spoiler?

Wait one second: What’s this? Is the Power Serb back? Ana Ivanovic played on Ashe today and defeated Australian Open semifinalist Jie Zheng in straight sets. Ivanovic is going to the third round. This also means this is the farthest she’s gotten at a U.S. Open since 2007 (she was bounced in the second round Read More

Matches to Watch, Day Three

There’s a nice mix of first and second round matches today, and this also presents really good stuff we’ve been looking forward to since the tournament began. Play!

Richard Gasquet v. Rafael Nadal; Arthur Ashe, Late Afternoon:

Gasquet has been gone all summer thanks to a suspension after low doses of cocaine was discovered in Read More

Serena Picks Up Easiest Win

The difference between this match and the last was striking for Serena Williams. In the last, Williams entered the women’s locker room on the verge of tears. Today, she came in smiling and gave a big thumbs up.

Serena Williams had her easiest win of the tournament today, blowing away Marion Bartoli in straight sets. Read More

Bartoli Sizes Up Serena

Marion Bartoli wishes she could replay the Wimbledon Finals when she lost to Venus Williams. She said she would changed her strategy. Instead of hitting the ball in the corners, she would have hit the ball down the center of the court, preventing Venus an opportunity to get good angles on passing winners.

This Read More

Lots to Watch, Especially Mardy Fish!

After last night's exhilarating action, we've got some great tennis to follow up.

At 11am, Justine Henin plays at Ashe while Novak Djokovic plays at Louis Armstrong. In the afternoon, Ana Ivanovic, Tim Henman, Marion Bartoli and Serena Williams all play.

Lleyton Hewitt will play on Louis Armstrong at night, while Venus Williams and Read More

Bartoli to Navratilova: Enough Already

Marion Bartoli begs to differ — strongly — with tennis legend Martina Navratilova’s assessment of her game.

Bartoli told me yesterday that she didn’t care for Navratilova’s criticism when the 5759-time Grand Slam champion told the The New York Times, “[Bartoli] can beat a top-10 player here and there, but not day in and day Read More