The much-anticipated Serena vs. Venus Williams’ battle turned out to be a clunker on Friday night as Serena pounded her older sister 6-1, 6-2 to move into the fourth round at the US Open.

“This was my best match since I returned,” Serena said. “I worked for it. I worked really hard these last three or four months.”

Venus won only four of 33 points off Serena’s dominating first serve.

“I think it’s …

2017 finalists were nearly pushed to the very brink today at the US Open. In matches going on simultaneous indoors on Ashe and Armstrong, defending champion Rafael Nadal was in a heap of trouble against the young Russian Karen Khachnov. The 22-year-old powerful Khachanov was pounding groundstrokes and push Nadal. But up a set and serving for the second (Rafa has never come from two sets down to win a …

World No. 2 Caroline Wozniacki’s inglorious U.S. hardcourt summer came to an end on Thursday at the US Open when she was upset 6-4, 6-2 by the Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko.

It is the first time in the Open Era that the two top seeds have gone out before the quarterfinals at the US Open, and Wozniacki was the third Slam champion this week to lose on the new Louis Armstrong Stadium …

Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic inched closer to a hotly-anticipated Wednesday quarterfinal at the US Open. Today, it was Federer playing during the day and Djokovic at night. With temperatures still hovering in the 90s, Federer had no problem knocking out the zany Benoit Paire in straight sets 7-5, 6-4, 6-4.

“I think it was a bit sort of up and down,” said Federer. “I think it’s always tricky against Benoit, …

Andy Murray’s comeback to Grand Slam tennis can to an end today at the US Open. The 2012 tournament champion fell to Fernando Verdasco in four tough sets 7-5, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the second round in blazing hot conditions.

Verdasco was 1-13 against the Scot losing the last eight since the 2009 Australian Open. But the Spaniard had the upper hand most of the night against Murray who was playing …

No. 2 seed Caroline Wozniacki held off a challenge from a former US Open winner as the seeds righted the ship on Tuesday at the US Open.

Following the departure of No. 1 seed Simona Halep on Day 1, Wozniacki on a Tuesday where temperatures reached into the upper 90s stopped unseeded former champion Sam Stosur 6-3, 6-2.

“I’m feeling pretty good,” said Wozniacki, who lost in the first round at the …

Early in his career, Novak Djokovic was known to struggle in the heat. Then, he got fitter and rarely did he suffer in the steamy conditions. But that wasn’t the case today at the US Open where the Serb was melting in the 97F degree heat against Marton Fucsovics.

After taking the opening set, Djokovic looked to be in control of the 26-year-old from Hungary. No so. Djokovic began to look …

The US Open draw opened up for the Williams sisters, or at least one of the Williams sisters, when world No. 1 Simona Halep became the first top-seeded player to lose in the opening round of the US Open on Monday, falling 6-2, 6-4 to Estonian Kaia Kanepi.

“She has been playing really well in U.S. lately, so I thought I just have to be aggressive and try to stay calm. …

Rafael Nadal opened his title defense with an easier-than-expected but unfortunate victory via retirement over countryman David Ferrer. In what will likely be his final Grand Slam match, the 36-year-old Ferrer retired for the first-time ever in a Slam down 6-3, 3-4 due to a lower leg/achilles issue.

A limping Ferrer tried to give it a go after calling for the trainer early in the second, but even though he was …

On the eve of the US Open, the big story in tennis isn’t the last Slam of the year, but rather the French Open. French Tennis Federation President Bernard Giudicelli recently said in an interview that the French Open will ban players from wearing catsuit-like outfits like the one Serena Williams wore this past year.

Catsuit anyone? For all the moms out there who had a tough

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Yesterday at the US Open, Alexander Zverev met the press on Louis Armstrong, and of course the hot topic was his hiring this week of former tennis great Ivan Lendl.

Zverev had been courting Lendl (and Boris Becker) for some time, but the will officially debut on Tuesday in New York.

“We’ve known each other for a few years now,” Zverev said. “He was working with Andy. Jez Green was also part …

Twenty-year-old Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus won her first career title on Saturday, in the Connecticut Open final deafeting Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain 6-1, 6-4 in the final.

“I am so happy with my first title,” Sabalenka said, “This is a great feeling…I have to work more because the next year I have to do it again. This is how I feel right now.”

She improved to 1-2 in career finals after …

Daniil Medvedev won the second title of his career, and the year, on Saturday when he defeated American Steve Johnson 6-4, 6-4 for the Winston-Salem Open title in North Carolina.

“At the beginning of the week, I didn’t think it was going to be possible because I was playing quite good but I didn’t feel I was at the right form to win a title,” he said after the final. “I …

Sloane Stephens defends her championship and Serena Williams plays her first US Open since the birth of her first child among a number of storylines this year in Flushing Meadows.

“That I would be the favorite at this point, almost a year after having a baby, is quite interesting,” Serena told reporters on Saturday. “I don’t know my draw, but if I want to be the best, I’m going to have …

Andy Murray was frank today when meeting the press during a special gathering on the new Louis Armstrong court, admitting that he didn’t think he could win the US Open this year.

“The last 10 or 11 years of my life I’ve dedicated all my training and off-seasons and stuff to prepare to perform well in these events,” said Murray who won the US Open in 2012. “Missing them is hard, …