“It was a good workout,” said Federer in his best not-condescending-but-kinda-condescending fashion after the straight-set win.

Sean Randall makes his pick for the US Open.

The US Open men’s draw has a similar look.

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal both lost Friday in Cincinnati.

Can Rafael Nadal recover in time to beat Mardy Fish?

Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka meet in Montreal while Novak Djokovic closes in on title nine of 2011.

Sean Randall previews the Montreal Tennis Masters, and makes his pick.

Americans are charging ahead in Washington and Carlsbad.

Nalbandian beat Baghdatis in last year’s final; Andy Roddick misses the event with injury, yet to debut on the U.S. summer circuit; returning champs in the field are Nalbandian (2010) and Blake (2002).

Mardy Fish and John Isner appear headed on an Atlanta collision.

Notes: Interesting openers include (1) Fish vs. the Mahut-Richard Bernakis winner after a bye, (8) Devvarman vs. Ryan Sweeting, Blake vs. Gulbis in a battle of strugglers, (7) Bogomolov vs. Muller, (WC) Haas vs. (WC) Robby Ginepri, and (WC) Donald Young vs. “Iron” Mike Russell (winner to face (2) Anderson); Fish beat Isner in last year’s final.

The favorites Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic looked dominant early at Wimbledon.

Roger Federer got the easiest of Wimbledon draw while defending champion Rafael Nadal wasn’t so fortunate.

“I started too slow, absolutely too slow,” Schiavone said. “The key was to hit three, four, five, six, seven balls, but I couldn’t arrive at three, four. That was the way to win — if I went to the net in one shot, there was no way to win. From 4-1 down I played two really good games then she went a little bit down.”

After going down two sets and a break to Viktor Troicki, Andy Murray now finds himself deadlocked in a fifth set when play resumes tomorrow in the French Open fourth round.