NEW YORK — A look at Thursday’s play at the $38.3 million U.S. Open tennis championships:
MEN’S SEEDED WINNERS: Second Round: No. 1 Novak Djokovic, No. 5 Milos Raonic, No. 8 Andy Murray, No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, No. 10 Kei Nishikori, No. 13 John Isner, No. 16 Tommy Robredo, No. 22 Philipp Kohlschreiber and No. 23 Leonardo Mayer
MEN’S SEEDED LOSERS: No. 28 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez and No. 31 Fernando Verdasco.
WOMEN’S SEEDED WINNERS: Second Round: No. 1 Serena Williams, No. 3 Petra Kvitova, No. 7 Eugenie Bouchard, No. 11 Flavia Pennetta, No. 15 Carla Suarez Navarro, No. 16 Victoria Azarenka, No. 17 Ekaterina Makarova, No. 29 Casey Dellacqua and No. 30 Barbora Zahlavova Strycova.
WOMEN’S SEEDED LOSERS: No. 8 Ana Ivanovic, No. 23 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, No. 24 Sam Stosur and No. 27 Madison Keys.
TOP PLAYERS ON COURT FRIDAY: Men, Second Round: No. 2 Roger Federer vs. Sam Groth, No. 4 David Ferrer vs. Bernard Tomic, No. 6 Tomas Berdych vs. Martin Klizan, No. 7 Grigor Dimitrov vs. Dudi Sela. Women, Third Round: No. 2 Simona Halep vs. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, No. 5 Maria Sharapova vs. No. 26 Sabine Lisicki, No. 6 Angelique Kerber vs. Belinda Bencic, No. 13 Sara Errani vs. No. 19 Venus Williams.
STAT OF THE DAY: 7 — Tommy Robredo’s winning streak in five-set matches at Grand Slam tournaments, including five from two sets down.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I wanted to get my job done as quick as possible. I don’t feel like I need to play long matches to get into the groove.” — Novak Djokovic, who needed less than 90 minutes to beat Paul-Henri Mathieu and advance to the third round.
The Associated press