Arthur Ashe 11:00 AM

1. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Roger Federer (SUI)[1] vs. Tim Henman (GBR)

followed by
2. Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Ai Sugiyama (JPN)[28] vs. Justine Henin-Hardenne (BEL)[2]


3. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS) vs. James Blake (USA)[5]


Arthur Ashe 7:00 PM

1. Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)[22] vs. Lindsay Davenport (USA)[10]

followed by
2. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
David Nalbandian (ARG)[4] vs. Marat Safin (RUS)


Armstrong 11:00 AM

1. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Robby Ginepri (USA)[18] vs. Paul Goldstein (USA)

followed by
2. Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)[6] vs. Anastassia Rodionova (RUS)

3. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Gaston Gaudio (ARG)[21] vs. Sam Querrey (USA)


Grandstand 11:00 AM

1. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Carlos Moya (ESP) vs. Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA)

followed by
2. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Alessio Di Mauro (ITA) vs. Andy Murray (GBR)[17]

Not Before 3:00 PM
3. Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Vera Zvonareva (RUS)[33] vs. Elena Dementieva (RUS)[4]

Not Before 7:30 PM
5. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Ryan Sweeting (USA) vs. Olivier Rochus (BEL)[26]


Court 4 11:00 AM

1. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Alejandro Falla (COL) vs. Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)[23]

followed by
2. Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Francesca Schiavone (ITA)[14] vs. Shahar Peer (ISR)[21]


Court 6 11:00 AM

1. Women's Doubles - 1st Rnd.

followed by
2. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Lukasz Kubot (POL) vs. Noam Okun (ISR)


Court 7 11:00 AM

1. Women's Doubles - 1st Rnd.

Not Before 1:00 PM
2. Men's Doubles - 2nd Rnd.

followed by
3. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Marc Gicquel (FRA) vs. Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP)[16]


Court 8 11:00 AM

1. Women's Doubles - 1st Rnd.

followed by
2. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Nicolas Mahut (FRA) vs. Nikolay Davydenko (RUS)[7]


Court 10 11:00 AM

1. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Fernando Gonzalez (CHI)[10] vs. Jan Hajek (CZE)

followed by
2. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Tomas Berdych (CZE)[12] vs. Florian Mayer (GER)

3. Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Aravane Rezai (FRA) vs. Maria Kirilenko (RUS)[20]


Court 11 11:00 AM

1. Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Jelena Jankovic (SCG)[19] vs. Nicole Vaidisova (CZE)[9]

followed by
2. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Raemon Sluiter (NED) vs. Tommy Haas (GER)[14]

3. Men's Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Vincent Spadea (USA) vs. Jonas Bjorkman (SWE)[29]

Not Before 6:30 PM
4. Women's Singles - 3rd Rnd.
Patty Schnyder (SUI)[7] vs. Marion Bartoli (FRA)[26]

Matches of the day:

Dementieva v Zvonareva
Vaidisova v Jankovic
Mahut v Davydenko [i think theres gonna be an upset]
Henman v Federer

Matches of the day for me are( on the womens side)

Jankovic vs Vaidisova( i actually predict a Jankovic win)
Dementieva vs Zvonareva

Has there ever been a slam when so many seeds made the third round! I know the womens draw often sees easy wins for the top ladies but this year's event seems even more extreme than usual - Only 2 of 16 in the bottom half of the draw are unseeded. Ah well at least we have some cracking third round matches - let's face it I think we'd all rather have the better players facing off than many third rounds like the Razzano v Kanepi match we have in the top half!

Today's big matches.

Vaidisova v Jankovic

Vaidisova has beaten Jelena all three times they've played but Jankovic has been in great form recently and Nicole was unconvincing in her second round win. This could be a very tight match.

Rezai v Kirilenko

Kirilenko has just had her first back to back wins for a while but Rezai has just managed two big wins and is in her 2nd slam 3rd round this year. Another one that's hard to call.

Zvonareva v Dementieva

Probably the match of the day as the two Russians face off. Both have been in good form recently and Elena loves it here so she should close this out but you can't count Vera out nowadays. Amazingly they've only played once before - in the 4th round here two years ago. Elena took it in three sets and should do again today.

Schiavone v Peer

After holding of the challenge of Mirza - Schiavone will have to fight off the fast rising Peer. This one could go either way but I reckon Schiavone may have too much guile for the Israeli.

Henin-Hardenne v Sugiyama

Sugiyama is always capable of giving the top players trouble but it's unlikely she'll manage it against an in form Justine. They last met in Indian Wells where Justine only gave up 3 games - I would expect this to be closer but for Justine to come through in straight sets.

Yeah i cant see sugiyama doing much damage. the only way she could hurt Justine is with her movement, consistency and taking the ball early. These only seem effective though if Justine isnt on form. I expect jUstine to win with a relatively easy scoreline i.e 6-3 6-2...........

Women's third round draw

(1)Mauresmo vs Santangelo
S.Williams vs (16)Ivanovic[/ B]
[B](12)Safina vs Gajdasova
Kanepi vs Razzano

(3)Sharapova vs (32)Likhovtseva
(24)Li vs (13)Pierce
Azarenka vs (23)Chakvetadze
(27)Golovin vs (5)Petrova

(6)Kuznetsova vs Rodionova
(19)Jankovic vs (9)Vaidisova
Rezai vs (20)Kirilenko
(33)Zvonareva vs (4)Dementieva

(7)Schnyder vs (26)Bartoli
(22)Srebotnik vs (10)Davenport
(14)Schiavone vs (21)Peer
(28)Sugiyama vs (2)Henin-Hardenne

Wow, just 2 unseeded players in the bottom half :o

Jankovic v Vaidisova will be interesting. Nicole needed to three sets to overcome Jidkova (who hasn't been in very good form recently), which doesn't indicate she's playing at a high standard. She'll probably have the mental edge too, considering the H2H. That said, Jelena has been in great form on the US hard courts and has the game to take Nicole out.

Dementieva v Zvonareva should be good. I'd expect Elena to come through, but Vera could definitely take her to 3 sets or even spring an upset...

The weather forecast for the day is good, though there's a chance that the night session will be interrupted by rain (particularly the Safin-Nalbandian match).

The forecast for Saturday is atrocious; a 100% chance of heavy rain and strong winds :blink:

Go safin :pray:

Yes NYC not the most consistent weather roflmao

Completely off topic, but lDF look at this :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHOtBLJ0K4...related&search=

Its so poignant

I love that song :clap:

Its a genius song :clap:

I hope Lindsay still gets to play on Sunday (assuming Saturday is washed out) - I have friends round on Monday :lol:

roflmao

well you wont be watching her for long, she'll probably have another 40 minute show roflmao

She's already given out 3 double bagels this year :o

' mean old lady '

i think it was quite apt roflmao

Yeh, I saw that roflmao

still noone beats routine Kim on her way to victory :rolleyes:

Always a dull moment there :rolleyes: roflmao

You still bash her even though she's got a serious injury and can't defend her title?

Wow, you really don't like her roflmao

Well................not a rare occurence for Kim roflmao

The way she milked that injury at the Aussie :doh:

Oh, the hip injury? Yeh, I think she exaggerated...

I dont HATE her, thats far too strong a word...............i just dont warm to ' pefect Kim ' :rolleyes:

And yet Venus injured herself by tying her shoe lacees :rolleyes:

hat is strong; i morvidely dislike her

But Venus pulled out of that tournament clearly injured....................she didnt play at the Aussie and ran around the court freely :rolleyes:

Tend to agree. All we get from press is....

"Kim is such a nice girl..." and

"Everyoneloves Kim..." :tsk: :bs:

Only one womans match on currently...

(9)Vaidisova vs (19)Jankovic 7-5 2-2

Jankovic takes the 2nd set 6-3 :)

Jelena breaks at the start of the final set, Nicole dumping an easy forehand in the net. :)

C'mon Jelena!!!

Jelena consolidates the break and takes a 2-0 lead :)

I thought she fell and twisted her ankle at the AO :shrug:

Or am I confusing her with someone else?

She came into the tournament with a hip injury (which caused her to withdraw from Sydney). However, it didn't seem to hamper her too much, and she said that it was causing her trouble :shrug:

Nicole double faults on break point to give Jelena a 3-0 lead :D

O ye I remember now; she did seem to be complaining about nothing :rolleyes:

She fell and hurt her ankle and had to withdraw from the Amelie match though I think.

That's just pathetic Nicole, even Venus wouldn't DF on break point :unsure:

Jankovic seems to be making mincemeat of Nicole's 'mighty' serve...

Jelena leads 4-0 :D

Jelena will serve for the match at 5-0...

Vaidisova's self-destructed in this final set.

Jelena serving for the match...

You can say that again roflmao