A lot will be written about Serena Williams’ remarkable run through this tournament (though unfortunately none of us could use her words—her press conference didn’t start until after 1 a.m., more than 90 minutes after the final point, so pretty much everyone on the East Coast had to write their stories without her thoughts). But [...]

Andy Murray got in the way of the final everyone outside of Great Britain wanted, defeating Rafael Nadal 6-4 in the fourth set.

Murray broke Nadal in a spectacular final game, capping off a 62-minute set. He finished the match 4 of 20 on break point conversions, while Nadal was 2 of 3.

That definitely takes [...]

No. 4 Serena Williams advanced to the U.S. Open final with a 6-3, 6-2 win over No. 6 Dinara Safina today.
She will face No. 2 Jelena Jankovic in the final tomorrow night at 7 p.m., weather permitting. The winner of that match will earn the No. 1 ranking.
Safina broke Williams in the first game [...]

The Federer-Djokovic will go on first at Ashe, immediately at 11 a.m. If there is a window without rain, the Nadal-Murray match might get moved to Armstrong so that both matches will be competed.

The USTA has announced the schedule for Saturday. Weather permitting, the men’s semifinals will start at 11 a.m. (instead of noon), and the women’s final will go on as scheduled Saturday night at 7.

This is what happened in case of rain:

Scenario 1: Both men’s semis and women’s final rained out.
The men’s semis will be [...]

No. 2 Jelena Jankovic advanced to her first-ever Grand Slam final, defeating No. 5 Elena Dementieva 6-4, 6-4 today at the U.S. Open.

Jankovic, from Serbia, had lost in her four previous semifinal appearances at majors. She won four straight games to win the first set, and then broke Dementieva to win the match. Dementieva, the [...]

That’s the choice sports fans might have to make on Sunday. The weather report for Saturday isn’t promising, obviously, so there’s a distinct possibility the men’s semis and women’s final will get pushed to Sunday (I think it’s more likely that there’s room for a two-hour women’s final, and extremely unlike there will be a [...]

For the second straight day, a long men’s match during the day will push the night session into the late-night session. This time, they won’t move the women’s match to Armstrong, either.

 Andy Murray just got done beating Juan Martin del Porto in four sets—though those four sets somehow took four hours, longer than Federer’s and Djokovic’s [...]

It’s been quite a long time since Roger Federer lost two sets in a U.S. Open match — the 2004 quarterfinals against Andre Agassi. It happened again today in the most unlikely scenario — a round of 16 match against Russian clay-court specialist. But Federer pulled out a 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 [...]

The women’s quarterfinal between No. 2 Jelena Jankovic and No. 29 Sybille Bammer, which was originally scheduled to start now at Arthur Ashe, has just been moved to Armstrong and will start at 8:30.

The reason is that Roger Federer is in a dogfight with Igor Andreev that no one outside of Russia anticipated, and [...]