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Yesterday was my last day at The Open and the Last day of a 4 week trip to the 2013 US Hard court season.
Last month's sudden "retirement" scenario for Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli may well be developing cracks after L'Equipe reported that the French player may have already decided to go ahead and play in January's Hopman Cup, the eight-nation teams exhibition in Perth, Western Australia.
According to the Wall Street Journal, with Federer's stunning loss to Tommy Robredo on Monday, the price of non-courtside seats in Arthur Ashe Stadium for Wednesday night was down 22% to $166 from a three-day average price of $212.
There will be no television blackout of the final rounds of the US Open in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas this weekend.
This was an evening match, but the crowd was sparse. Perhaps they expected a blowout. Which is what they got. Daniela Hantuchova will be #30 or #31, depending on how Flavia Pennetta does.
Saw part of a very watchable match from the US Open today.
Yesterday was all about the postponed match of Ana against Vika!
Serena Williams inflicted a double bagel on birthday girl Carla Suarez Navarro as the Spaniard celebrated her 25th birthday. It was only the second 6-0, 6-0 in the Open quarter-finals.
After a summer return to doubles six years after her second retirement, Martina Hingis is out of the US Open in women's and mixed but is still looking forward to more matches - once she takes a rest.
Andy Murray cannot help but contrast the calm ambience of Wimbledon to the chaos and noise of the US Open.
Self-criticism has never been one of Roger Federer’s traits. Then again, for the majority of his illustrious career, it never needed to be but after a disappointing year in the Grand Slam tournaments crashed to a sad end with a US Open straight sets exit to Tommy Robredo, the Swiss did not hold back.
World no.8 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the highest profile male absentee, after Federer, from the US Open, has ended his relationship with Australian coach Roger Rasheed less than a year after the pair started working together.
Novak Djokovic appears pleased with his budding commercial relationship with Uniqlo, which provides both his tennis and off-court casual wear.
The 2013 U.S. Open keeps on trucking and with it comes a whirlwind of action on and off the court. Today, thanks to 10sballs.com friend Steve Bellamy, I was given the opportunity to test some new rackets from Wilson that were sporting the Spin Effect Technology system.
Rafael Nadal knows he has no input into the situation, but the Spanish second seed remains annoyed about the Monday men's final planned for this edition - and in 2014 - at the US Open.
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