It’s raining in New York and the top players are getting testy.

The rains and schedule will play a role in this year’s US Open winner.

Roger Federer plays some of his best tennis of the year in the midnight hour.

Fish said he will sleep with…well, the Fish family, knowing he put in a career-best effort after a career-best U.S. summer season.

“I think there’s a healthy jealousy going on right now, which is good,” Roddick said of the American success. “It’s only good to help. If Donald Young sees Ryan Harrison play well in the summer, he’s going to not want to fall behind. I think that’s what you saw with that golden generation is that they were able to push each other.”

Donald Young continued his boy-to-man transformation of the summer of 2011, ousting No. 14 seed Stan Wawrinka 7-6(1) in the fifth set.

Andy Roddick talks about playing 18-year-old American Jack Sock.

Andy Roddick advanced but it wasn’t impressive.

“I warmed up and got sick everywhere after my 30-minute warmup,” Niland told reporters. “I thought I could bluff my way through but you can’t do that against the No. 1 in the world, I just found out. I thought I was going to vomit after long points. I just felt really, really rotten out there.”

Sean Randall makes his pick for the US Open.