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A white "9-11-01" will be painted next to the court for the U.S. Open men's and women's singles finals, part of the Grand Slam tennis tournament's commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.The men's final in New York is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 11. The women's final is a day earlier."If you think about it, everybody knows where they were on 9-11. And by putting that ... date, it's going to trigger memories for each of us — personal memories — and that's a factor that went into this," Jon Vegosen, the U.S. Tennis Association's chairman of the board and president, said in a telephone interview Thursday."Rather than imposing what 9-11 means," he added, "it allows it to be a much more personal moment for people."The temporary display will be placed near the net — across the court from where the chair umpire sits and players go to rest during changeovers — and will be painted on the green background that surrounds the blue playing surface in Arthur Ashe Stad...
Top seed Roger Federer started his quest for a sixth U.S. Open championship with a three-set victory over American Donald Young Monday night.Olympic gold medalist An...
Second-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska needed just 54 minutes to advance to the second round of the U.S. Open.Radwanska beat Nina Bratchikova of Russia 6-1, 6-1 on Tuesda...
Andy Roddick served 20 aces Tuesday to defeat 21-year-old American qualifier Rhyne Williams 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the U.S. Open.Roddick, seeded 20th, w...
Top seed Victoria Azarenka, reigning champion Samantha Stosur and three-time titlist Kim Clijsters were first-round winners on Day 1 at the 2012 U.S. Open.The Belaru...
Reigning champion Samantha Stosur was an easy first-round winner on a rain-interrupted Day 1 at the 2012 U.S. Open.The seventh-seeded Stosur won her eighth straight ...
Olympic gold medalist Andy Murray was an easy first-round winner at the 2012 U.S. Open, where rain interrupted play for more than two hours on Day 1.The third-seeded...
Panasonic Eco Solutions N.A. president Jim Doyle on being a sponsor at the 2012 US Open.
Reigning champion Samantha Stosur and third seed Maria Sharapova were easy first-round winners on a rain-interrupted Day 1 at the 2012 U.S. Open.The seventh-seeded S...
A Grand Slam title drought did indeed end in Sunday's historic and riveting Wimbledon final, only it was Roger Federer's lengthy-for-him gap between trophies that ca...
The morning after Roger Federer won a record-tying seventh Wimbledon championship, he returned to the site of his latest triumph to conduct interviews in various lan...
World No. 1 Victoria Azarenka and former top-ranked star Serena Williams could do battle in the U.S. Open final, as the draw for the 2012 Big Apple fortnight was rev...
The Farmers Classic men's tennis tournament at UCLA has been discontinued, and its ATP sanction has been sold to a group in Bogota, Colombia.The Southern California ...
Someday, a roof will cover Arthur Ashe Stadium at the U.S. Open.But it will cost a lot — at least nine figures — and it won't delay other projects that leaders of th...
The U.S. Tennis Association plans to give the home of the U.S. Open a makeover that will cost it hundreds of millions of dollars, but does not include putting a roof...
FACTS AND STATS: Course Architect(s): David W. Pfaff (2011), Stanley and Charles Pasarell. Year Opened: Spring 2011. Location: Isabela, Puerto Rico. Slope: 155. Rati...
The U.S. Open will begin Monday with tweaks to the day's original schedule, including a two-hour delay for the start of play at Arthur Ashe Stadium.The U.S. Tennis A...
For more than a century, some of the best men's tennis players in the world have come to the Bay Area almost every year.From its birth in 1889 as the Pacific Coast C...
Roger Federer is back in the Wimbledon final for the first time since 2009. If that seems like a long gap for the six-time champion, imagine how all of Britain feels...
Up in the players' box on Centre Court, Roger Federer's twin daughters squirmed, yawned, made funny faces and then applauded the new Wimbledon champion.The girls tur...