It's that time again, as the final grand slam of the season comes to North America with the USTA's US Open beginning Monday! REAL nighttime tennis as the grand slam season comes to a close and please no rain!
The drawings took place over the weekend, with qualifiers in the singles and doubles announced. In the singles, here are some of the matches to look forward to of interest:
MEN-singles
(1) Roger Federer v Donald Young
(2) Novak Djokovic v Paolo Lorenzi
(3) Andy Murray v Alex Bogomolov Jr.
(4) David Ferrer v Kevin Anderson
(5) Jo Wilfried Tsonga v Karol Beck
(6) Tomas Berdych v David Goffin
(7) Juan Martin del Potro v David Nalbandian
(8) Janko Tipsarevic v Guillaume Rufin
(9) John Isner v Xavier Malisse
(10) Juan Monaco v Guillermo Garcia Lopez
(11) Nicolas Almagro v Radek Stepanek
(12) Marin Cilic v Marinko Matosevic
(13) Richard Gasquet v Albert Montanes
(14) Alex Dolgopolov v Jesse Levine
(15) Milos Raonic v Santiago Giraldo
(16) Gilles Simon v Michael Russell
(18) Stan Wawrinka v Sergiy Stakhovsky
(19) Philipp Kohlschreiber v Michael Llodra
(20) Andy Roddick v Rhyne Williams
(21) Tommy Haas v Ernests Gulbis
(22) Florian Mayer v Jack Sock
(23) Mardy Fish v Go Soeda
(25) Fernando Verdasco v Rui Machado
(27) Sam Querrey v Yen Hsun Lu
(28) Mikhail Youzhny v Gilles Muller
(29) Viktor Troicki v Cedrik Marcel Stebe
(30) Feliciano Lopez v Robin Haase
(31) Julien Benneteau v Olivier Rochus
Nicolas Mahut v Philipp Petzschner
Tobias Kamke v Lleyton Hewitt
Lukas Lacko v James Blake
Ben Becker v Ryan Harrison
Brian Baker v Jan Hajek
Marcos Baghdatis v Matthias Bachinger
Jurgen Melzer v Bradley Klahn
Carlos Berlocq v Bernard Tomic
Nikolay Davydenko v Guido Pella
Ivo Karlovic v Jimmy Wang
*Remember: Rafael Nadal isn't playing due to that knee injury that kept him out of London 2012. Gael Monfils is also out with injury in which he hasn't been playing virtually all year.
WOMEN-singles
(1) Victoria Azarenka v Alexandra Panova
(2) Agnieszka Radwanska v Nina Bratchikova
(3) Maria Sharapova v Melinda Czink
(4) Serena Williams v CoCo Vandeweghe
(5) Petra Kvitova v Polona Hercog
(6) Angelique Kerber v Anne Keothavong
(7) Sam Stosur v Petra Martic
(8) Caroline Wozniacki v Irina Camelia Begu
(9) Na Li v Heather Watson
(10) Sara Errani v Garbine Muguruza
(11) Marion Bartoli v Jamie Hampton
(13) Dominika Cibulkova v Johanna Larsson
(12) Ana Ivanovic v Elina Svitolina
(14) Maria Kirilenko v Chanelle Scheepers
(15) Lucie Safarova v Melanie Oudin
(16) Sabine Lisicki v Sorana Cirstea
(17) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova v Daniela Hantuchova
(18) Julia Goerges v Kristyna Pliskova
(19) Nadia Petrova v Jarmila Gajdosova
(20) Urszula Radwanska v Roberta Vinci
(21) Christina McHale v Kiki Bertens
(22) Francesca Schiavone v Sloane Stephens
(23) Kim Clijsters v Victoria Duval (Clijsters' farewell to her career begins with this match.)
(25) Yanina Wickmayer v Julia Glushko
(28) Jie Zheng v Virgnie Razzano
(29) Tamira Paszek v Olga Govortsova
(30) Jelena Jankovic v Kateryna Bondarenko
(31) Varvara Lepchenko v Mathilde Johansson
(32) Shuai Peng v Elena Vesnina
Bethanie Mattek Sands v Venus Williams
Kimiko Date Krumm v Sofia Arvidsson
Romina Oprandi v Andrea Petkovic
Tsvetana Pironkova v Camila Giorgi
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova v Kirsten Flipkens
Anastasia Rodionova v Julia Cohen
Pauline Parmentier v Michaella Krajicek
Simona Halep v Iveta Benesova
Vania King v Yaroslava Shvedova
Samantha Crawford v Laura Robson
Mirjana Lucic v Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez
Alexandra Cadantu v Aleksandra Wozniak
Begins Monday! US Open Live radio and scoring here. On TV it's on Tennis Channel and ESPN networks all week. CBS is back at US Open for their usual weekend and Labour Day coverage! The men's final after the early games on the NFL on CBS is usually a tradition on CBS on the first Sunday of the NFL season-except from 1994-97 (CBS also has Super Bowl XLVII this February).
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