The decision by Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish to pass on the trip to Bejing in order to prepare for the U.S. Open seems to be paying off.
Fish beat Frenchman and French Open semifinalist Gael Monfils in straight sets Monday, to become the first man in the quarterfinals. Earlier he beat friend James Blake in [...]

The top four ranked Americans — No. 8 Andy Roddick, No. 9 James Blake, No. 35 Mardy Fish and No. 53 Sam Querrey — have reached the third round of the Open, leaving behind six compatriots who lost in the second round.
Collectively, the 19 American men who started the tournament are 14-15 in the Open, [...]

Ten of the nineteen American men in the singles draw have moved to the second round of the U.S. Open, including two qualifiers: No. 259-ranked Ryler De Heart won a five-set match against No. 68 Belgian Olivier Rochus, and No. 113 Robert Kendrick (pictured), who at 28 had been passed over for [...]

It has been five years since Andy Roddick cradled the U.S. Open cup during that short window between Sampras’ retirement and Federer’s rise. In fact, it has been five long years since any American man has won any Grand Slam.
It seems like long odds that Roddick or James Blake or any of the other [...]

Three American men qualified for the U.S. Open this week, putting a total of 19 U.S. players into the men’s singles draw.
Qualifiers were Ryler De Heart, who won his final round in the qualies in a third-set tiebreaker, Ryan Sweeting and Robert Kendrick.  They join six American wildcards Brendan Evans, Scoville Jenkins, Amer Delic, Jesse [...]

There once was a time when the NCCA singles champion was invited to play in the U.S. Open, but those days are long gone, especially for international players.
Somdev Devvarman, the University of Virginia star who has won consecutive NCAA tennis singles championships the past two years, was denied both a wildcard and a bid to [...]

Most tennis fans consider the U.S. Open a two-week event, but in reality, there are three weeks of play starting Tuesday, Aug. 19, with the qualifying draws — what insiders refer to simply as the “qualies.”
The qualies are a battle of 128 players hoping to win three matches to earn one of 16 open [...]

In the 1920s, Bill Tilden’s fame was on par with that of Babe Ruth and Bobby Jones. He won seven U.S. Nationals (now the U.S. Open), but today he is mostly forgotten. I went in search of his small Philadelphia grave, and wrote an essay about him that is appearing in the September/U.S. Open issue [...]

Darren Cahill, retired Australian player and coach turned ESPN announcer, suggested during today’s broadcast of the Rogers Masters Cup in Toronto that Andy Roddick, fresh off a disappointing loss yesterday to No. 44 Marin Cilic, should take the rest of the year off — including skipping the U.S. Open — to get his game [...]

One-hundred and four of the 128 men who will compete in this year’s U.S. Open were announced Wednesday, including nine Americans. All of the bids were based on rankings: Americans who received direct entry into this year’s tournament are No. 6 Andy Roddick of Austin, Texas; No. 8 James Blake of Fairfield, Conn.; No. [...]