Americans Still Playing In The Open 2011

Written by: Staff on 5th September 2011

Americans Still Playing In The Open 2011

Mardy Fish of the US hits a return to Kevin Anderson of South Africa during their third round match on the sixth day of the 2011 US Open Tennis Championship at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA 03 September 2011. The US Open runs through 11 September 2011. EPA/JASON SZENES |

(Courtesy of USTA)

AMERICANS TODAY AT THE US Open 2011

Men’s Singles

Mardy Fish, Los Angeles

Women’s Singles

Serena Williams, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

Mixed Doubles

Irina Falconi, Alpharetta, Ga

Steve Johnson, Orange, Calif.

Melanie Oudin, Marietta, Ga.

Jack Sock, Lincoln, Neb.

Women’s Doubles

Vania King, Long Beach, Calif.

Jessica Pegula, Boca Raton, Fla.

Taylor Townsend, Stockbridge, Ga.

Girls’ Singles

Victoria Duval, Bradenton, Fla.

Julia Elbaba, Oyster Bay, N.Y.

Nicole Gibbs, Santa Monica, Calif.

Hannah King, Dunwoody, Ga.

Madison Keys, Boca Raton, Fla.

Grace Min, Duluth, Ga

Sachia Vickery, Miramar, Fla.

Kimberly Yee, Las Vegas

Boys’ Singles

J.C. Aragone, Yorba Linda, Calif.

Brett Clark, Naples, Fla.

Marcos Giron, Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Mitchell Krueger, Aledo, Texas

Michael Redlicki, Hawthorn Woods, Ill..

Mac Styslinger, Birmingham, Ala.

Boys’ Doubles

Bjorn Fratangelo, Pittsburgh

Alexios Halebian, Glendale, Calif.

Dennis Novikov, Boca Raton, Fla

Girls’ Doubles

Alexandra Kiick, Plantation, Fla.

Hannah King, Dunwoody, Ga.

Stephanie Nauta, Bradenton, Fla.

Blair Shankle, Dallas

AMERICAN MEN OUT IN FORCE IN THE ROUND OF 16

Mardy Fish today will be the first of four American men—the others are John Isner, Andy Roddick and Donald Young, all of whom won yesterday—to play his fourth-round match. The four U.S. players are the most American men into the round of 16 at the US Open since 2003. That year Roddick, Andre Agassi, Taylor Dent and Todd Martin all advanced.

Moreover, a win by Fish today would make him the first American man to reach the quarterfinals here since 2008, when both he and Roddick advanced. And the four potential Americans into this year’s quarterfinals would be the most since 1995, when Agassi, Michael Chang, Jim Courier, Patrick McEnroe and Pete Sampras all advanced to the elite eight.

FISH CRUISING, BUT SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE VS. TSONGA

Mardy Fish and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga enter today’s match against each other as two of just four men’s players who have yet to drop a set at this year’s tournament, joined only by No. 1 Novak Djokovic and No. 2 Rafael Nadal.

SERENA CRUISES INTO FOURTH-ROUND MATCHUP

Even with a stern test in the second set of her third-round match against No. 4 seed Victoria Azarenka, Serena Williams is among the most dominant performers thus far in the women’s draw. Through the first three rounds, she has dropped just 10 games in six sets, and her average of 1.67 games lost per set is tied for the least of any woman in advancing to the fourth round.