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August 28, 2013 ITS Staff: New York - Defending champion Andy Murray had to wait until Wednesday to play his opening match at the U.S. Open Championships - only to be delayed again for almost five hours due to rain.

When the reigning Wimbledon champion finally got on court, he made sure there were no more postponements as he crushed Michael LLodra of France in straight sets 6-2 6-4 6-3. The Scot, who hit 35 winners while committing only 5 unforced errors, broke the Frenchman six times in the one hour and 38 minute match. Murray’s second-round opponent will be Leonardo Mayer of Argentina who defeated Romania's Victor Hanescu 7-6(4) 6-4 3-6 7-6(4).

Juan Martin Del Potro, the 2009 U.S.Open champion, won his opening match on rainy Wednesday battling past Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-4, 7-6(7). It took almost the whole day to complete the match due to heavy rain and storms. In the second round, the sixth-seeded Del Potro will Australian Lleyton Hewitt whom he idolized growing up in Argentina. The 32-year old 2002 U.S. Open champion defeated  American Brian Baker, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in over three hours.

In other men’s first round matches, No.21 seed Mikhail Youzhny eliminated Newport Hall-of-Fame winner Nicolas Mahut 6-4 6-4 7-6(4). Two-time NCAA Singles champion  Somdev Devvarman of defeated Slovakian Lukas Lacko in five sets 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.

Former Australian Open finalist Marcos Baghdatis was the first player to register a victory on Wednesday before the rains created mayhem beating Go Soeda of Japan 6-4, 6-3, 6-1 in one hour and 31 minutes.

August 28 2013 ITS Staff: New York -  Third seed Agnieszka Radwanska and fifth-seeded Li Na were the first players to win on Wednesday and advance to the third round at the U.S. Open Championships in Flushing Meadows.

The 2012 Wimbledon finalist Radwanska defeated Spaniard Maria- Teresa Torro-Flor 6-0, 7-5 while former French Open champion Li swiftly eliminated Sofia Arvidsson 6-2, 6-2 played at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Radwanska will face Russian No.32 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova on Friday who beat Australian Ashleigh Barty 6-4, 6-0. Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro, No.18 seed, took out American Coco Vandeweghe 6-3, 6-4. 

Wednesday’s second-round match between Venus Williams and Zheng Jie had all the makings of a dramatic thriller fit for a New York crowd. There were rain delays – two and a half, to be exact – several momentum swings, intense rallies and a high-energy, standing-room-only crowd. And after three hours of a hard-fought match in which Williams dug deep into her reserves and gave all she had in the third-set tiebreak, the American was knocked out of the US Open by a tenacious Zheng, who took a 6-3 2-6 7-6 win. Continue onto Clair Maciel article