Before each day's play at Flushing Meadows, we'll preview and predict three must-see matches. This is a match that many of us have been waiting to see for a couple of years. And because Halep and Azarenka haven’t played each other since 2012, it’s also a tough one to predict.

NEW YORK (AP) So there's at least one person with zero interest in watching the Williams sisters play each other in the U.S. Open quarterfinals Tuesday night, with Serena's bid for a calendar-year Grand Slam on the line. Their mother, Oracene Price. ''It's just hard to see them both going

NEW YORK (AP) So there's at least one person with zero interest in watching the Williams sisters play each other in the U.S. Open quarterfinals Tuesday night, with Serena's bid for a calendar-year Grand Slam on the line. Their mother, Oracene Price. ''It's just hard to see them both going

NEW YORK (AP) Andy Murray watched a 130 mph ace zoom by to create a two-set deficit at the U.S. Open, and then sat in his changeover chair and cursed at himself, over and over and over. A little later, Murray cracked his racket against the court once, breaking the

NEW YORK—As she strode toward the net in Louis Armstrong Stadium, a smiling Simona Halep made the sign of the cross as she looked up to the sky. That’s the Romanian’s normal routine when she wins, but this time she appeared to be giving thanks for more than just a

NEW YORK (AP) No reason for any extra practice after this performance by Serena Williams. Plus, it's not as if she needs to study too hard to figure out how to deal with her next opponent. Playing the best she during this U.S. Open as she chases a calendar-year Grand

NEW YORK—Sometimes the best way to understand what separates the world's No. 1 player from the competition is to see her go up against an opponent who can do many of the same things she does. Madison Keys can do many of the same things that Serena Williams does. She

Before each day's play at Flushing Meadows, we'll preview and predict three must-see matches. Young will have good memories of playing this opponent at the Open; his win over Wawrinka in a fifth-set tiebreaker here in 2011 was the biggest of his career at the time. But DY’s memories of

NEW YORK (AP) Even if her latest troublesome first set had finished only an hour earlier, it seemed a distant memory by the time Serena Williams smacked a cross-court forehand passing winner on the run and wound up doing the splits behind the baseline. She leaned forward, yelled and shook

NEW YORK—Is there a better bet in tennis than Serena Williams? I don’t ask that because she always wins. I ask it because she so often wins in exactly the same way, by exactly the same third-set score. When in doubt with Serena, bet on a first-set loss, a tight

Before each day's play at Flushing Meadows, we'll preview and predict three must-see matches. Gasquet leads their head to head 5-1, but Tomic won perhaps their biggest meeting, at Wimbledon in 2013. So far here, they’ve both been grinding through long, hot matches, and both could be a little gassed

NEW YORK (AP) Venus Williams' opponent in the third round of the U.S. Open on Friday is 18-year-old Belinda Bencic of Switzerland, who just so happens to be the last player to beat Serena Williams. And Venus, of course, was well aware of that. Planned to even ask her younger

NEW YORK (AP) The latest on the U.S. Open (all times local): 9:50 p.m. A drone buzzed over the court during a U.S. Open match and crashed into an empty section of seats in Louis Armstrong Stadium. U.S. Tennis Association spokesman Chris Widmaier says Thursday night that no one was

NEW YORK (AP) The enormity of what is at stake for Serena Williams at the U.S. Open - the first true Grand Slam in tennis in more than a quarter of a century - hit her Wednesday. That, she said, is why her play was so uneven in the second

NEW YORK (AP) The latest on the U.S. Open (all times local): 12:48 a.m. On a muggy night, Rafael Nadal said he felt dehydrated, and that's why his level of play dropped for about a set. ''I had some problems. I was sweating a lot,'' Nadal said after beating 18-year-old

NEW YORK (AP) Even before Serena Williams set foot in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday night, her path through the U.S. Open to complete a true Grand Slam became a lot easier thanks to losses by other top women. And when it was the No. 1-seeded American's turn to play

Shortly after the draw for the U.S. Open set up Serena Williams' path to completing a Grand Slam, she offered her own analysis. ''It's not anything simple or easy to go through,'' Williams said. Actually, judging by her head-to-head records against many possible opponents, it might be. Still, there are

Women to watch at the U.S. Open, which begins Monday: SERENA WILLIAMS Seeded: 1 Age: 33 Country: United States 2015 Match Record: 48-2 2015 Singles Titles: 5 Career Singles Titles: 69 Major Titles: 21 - U.S. Open ('99, 02, 08, 12, 13, 14), Wimbledon ('02, 03, 09, 10, 12, 15),

A look at the U.S. Open, the year's last Grand Slam tennis tournament: Surface: Hard courts. Site: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. Schedule: The 14-day tournament begins Monday. The women's singles final is Saturday, Sept. 12; the men's singles final is Sunday, Sept. 13. The

So here's the question 127 of the 128 women in the U.S. Open's main draw will ask themselves: How do you beat Serena Williams? A solid return helps, of course. As can the occasional free point off a big serve. And an ability to hang in there at the baseline