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WRAPUP 1-Tennis-Lightweights throw in the towel at U.S. Open

5 hours 14 min ago
NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) - There was an old-fashioned fight at the U.S. Open on Thursday but not the one tournament officials wanted to see.

UPDATE 6-Tennis-U.S. Open men's singles second round results

5 hours 46 min ago
Sept 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Open men's singles second round results from New York on Thursday (prefix denotes seeding, * new result). * Richard Gasquet (France) beat 6-Nikolay Davydenko (Russia) 6-3 6-4 6-2 3-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) beat Philipp Petzschner (Germany) 7-5 6-3 7-6(6) Kevin Anderson (South Africa) beat 26-Thomaz Bellucci (Brazil) 6-7(4) 6-4 5-7 6-4 7-6(2) 22-Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spain) beat Ricardo Mello (Brazil) 6-1 6-4 6-4 James Blake (U.S.) be

UPDATE 1-Tennis-Djokovic caps perfect day for centre court seeds

5 hours 54 min ago
* Entertaining tilt ends seeds' perfect center court day

Tennis-Battered Blake hopes tap energy from rowdy Open crowd

6 hours 56 min ago
NEW YORK, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Rejuvenated by the familiar surroundings of the U.S. Open, New Yorker James Blake promised to deliver some inspired tennis if his broken-down body will allow him to compete at a higher level.

UPDATE 5-Tennis-U.S. Open women's singles second round results

7 hours 42 min ago
Sept 2 ,(Reuters) - U.S. Open women's singles second round results from New York on Thursday (prefix denotes seeding). *Peng Shuai (China) beat 9-Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 2-6 6-1 6-4 Andrea Petkovic (Germany) beat Bethanie Mattek-Sands (U.S.) 3-6 6-3 7-5 14-Maria Sharapova (Russia) beat Iveta Benesova (Czech Republic) 6-1 6-2 31-Kaia Kanepi (Estonia) beat Akgul Amanmuradova (Uzbekistan) 6-2 6-4 25-Alexandra Dulgheru (Romania) beat Sofia Arvidsson (Sweden) 7-6(5) 6-1 23-Maria Kirilenko

UPDATE 2-Tennis-All calm on U.S. Open courts as storms close in

8 hours 45 min ago
* Davydenko joins seeds making early exits (Updates after Sharapova wins)

Tennis-Underdogs gets their chance in limelight at U.S. Open

8 hours 57 min ago
NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) - It looms as a mismatch of classic proportions. Andy Murray, the world number four and one of the favourites to win the U.S. Open title against Dustin Brown, a dreadlocked Jamaican ranked 123rd in the world.

UPDATE 1-Tennis-Sharapova joins easy centre court winners

9 hours 7 min ago
* Advances to another Open clash with U.S. teenager (Adds detail, quote)

Tennis-America's latest sweetheart gunning for Sharapova

9 hours 21 min ago
NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) - A year after her surprise exit from the U.S. Open, Maria Sharapova will have another showdown with a little-known American teenager who will be battling for her own share of the Flushing Meadows spotlight.

UPDATE 1-Tennis-All calm on U.S. Open courts as storms close in

Sep 3rd 2010
* Davydenko joins seeds making early exits (Adds quotes, later matches)

UPDATE 1-Tennis-Sweden's Soderling fends off Dent for easy win

Sep 3rd 2010
* Dutchman De Bakker next up for fifth seed (Adds quotes)

UPDATE 3-Tennis-U.S. Open men's singles second round results

Sep 3rd 2010
Sept 2 ,(Reuters) - U.S. Open men's singles second round results from New York Thursday (prefix denotes seeding, * new result). *13-Juergen Melzer (Austria) beat Ricardas Berankis (Lithuania) 6-4 6-7(4) 6-3 1-6 7-5 *Thiemo de Bakker (Netherlands) beat Ivan Dodig (Croatia) 6-7(4) 6-2 6-2 3-2 (Dodig retired) 5-Robin Soderling (Sweden) beat Taylor Dent (U.S.) 6-2 6-2 6-4 Paul-Henri Mathieu (France) beat Guillaume Rufin (France) 7-6(3) 6-4 6-3 Kei Nishikori (Japan) beat 11-Marin Cilic (Croatia

Tennis-Jankovic edges Lucic in feisty U.S. Open contest

Sep 3rd 2010
* Both players had repeated spats with umpire (Adds quotes)

UPDATE 1-Tennis-Federer makes "perfect" start to steamy Open

Sep 3rd 2010
* Defeats German Beck to advance to third round (Recasts, adds quotes)

Tennis-Tattooed Kuznetsova aims to silence detractors

Sep 3rd 2010
NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Inked onto the left arm of 2004 U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova is a lengthy tattoo in Russian that translates as "only God is our judge."

UPDATE 2-Tennis-U.S. Open women's singles second round results

Sep 2nd 2010
Sept 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Open women's singles second round results from New York on Thursday (prefix denotes seeding). * 4-Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) beat Mirjana Lucic (Croatia) 6-4 3-6 6-2 * Lourdes Dominguez Lino (Spain) beat Urszula Radwanska (Poland) 6-2 7-5 * 11-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) beat Anastasija Sevastova (Latvia) 6-2 6-3 * Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia) beat Kateryna Bondarenko (Ukraine) 6-2 5-7 7-6(7) 1-Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) beat

Tennis-Friday's order of play at the U.S. Open

Sep 2nd 2010
NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Friday's order of play on the show courts on day five of the U.S. Open (prefix denotes seeding):

Tennis-Nice and easy does it for top seed Wozniacki

Sep 2nd 2010
NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Nice and easy works fine for top seed Caroline Wozniacki, who said on Thursday she is happy with her smooth ride through the first two rounds at the U.S. Open where a potential match-up with Maria Sharapova looms.

UPDATE 1-Tennis-Zvonareva's outlook not changed by Wimbledon run

Sep 2nd 2010
* Wimbledon runner-up beats Germany's Lisicki (Recasts, adds quotes)

Tennis-American Fish relishes high expectations at U.S. Open

Sep 2nd 2010
NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Mardy Fish woke up to the news Thursday that his close friend Andy Roddick had bowed out of the U.S. Open prematurely and in acrimonious fashion.