U.S. Open Match to Watch: Day 2

A good day of tennis on Monday should be followed up with an even better day of play on Tuesday.

We'll go over to the women's draw for Tuesday's match to watch.

It wil be on Louis Armstrong as the second match on.

This could be a war:

Galina Voskoboeva(KAZ)    vs.      Francesca Schiavone(ITA)[7]

Voskoboeva is really a player to watch. She's tall, she well coached and she plays hard.  She had a great run in Canada this summer and any top player that goes up against her should be on upset alert.

Schiavone isa warrior and a thinker on the court.  Hard is not her best surface and that will turn this into a close three-setter.  I still like Schiavone, the Italian to pull it out 7-5 in the third.

Francesca Schiavone

Minor Changes to U.S. Open Day 1 Schedule

The United States Open will begin as scheduled, at 11 a.m. on Monday, on a majority of the courts. The biggest change is at Arthur Ashe Stadium, where the first match will begin at 1 p.m. instead of 11 a.m.

In a statement sent Sunday night, the United States Tennis Association said the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center had emerged from Hurricane Irene “with minimal damage.” It also said gates would open to the public at 10 a.m. on Monday.

“From our perspective, we were very fortunate,” said Daniel Zausner, the managing director of facility operations for the U.S.T.A. “There was virtually no damage, and any damage we had was cosmetic in nature.”

The damage that occured is mostly in the form of damaged fences or minor cosmetic damage.  There was no flooding reported or any structural damage.

It's Radwanska vs. Radwanska at the U.S. Open

Tennis draws can sometimes lead to some strange matchups.  At Wimbledon this year, we saw a blind draw that resulted in the rematch of the longest tennis match in history, Isner vs. Mahut.

This year, with Urszula Radwanska winning three qualifying matches, she was added to the U.S. Open Women's Singles Draw to play none other than her sister, #12 seeded Agnieszka.

The two have actually played twice on the WTA Tour, in addition to I'm sure what were numerous knockdown dragouts on the courts of Krakow, Poland.

Each sister has one win the career head-to-head.  Urszula won in Dubai in 2009 and Agnieszka won in 2009 at Eastbourne. 

Hope this match gets put on a decent court on Monday or Tuesday, so a big crowd can take in this matchup of tennis siblings.

Agnieszka RadwanskaUrszula Radwanska

Craigslist Ad Finds Tennis Pro Looking for Practice Partner

This one caught me a little off guard.

A Craigslist post over the weekend shows that a WTA player who will be playing in the U.S. Open was looking for a sparring partner over the weekend.  Someone actually had to post this?

Wonder if will leak out who this player was.

Western & Southern Open Semi's Set

ORDER OF PLAY - SATURDAY, AUGUST 19    

CENTER COURT start 1:00 PM
[4] Andy Murray (GBR) vs [7] Mardy Fish (USA) - ATP
Not Before 2:30 PM
[1] Novak Djokovic (SRB) vs [8] Tomas Berdych (CZE) - ATP
Not Before 7:00 PM
[4] [WC] Maria Sharapova (RUS) vs [2] Vera Zvonareva (RUS) - WTA
[9] Andrea Petkovic (GER) vs [13] Jelena Jankovic (SRB) - WTA

GRANDSTAND start 1:00 pm
[4] Michael Llodra (FRA) / Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) vs Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL) / Florian Mayer (GER) - ATP
Not Before 5:30 PM
[1] Bob Bryan (USA) / Mike Bryan (USA) vs [3] Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) / Leander Paes (IND) - ATP