15/30/40 GAME SET MATCH...PALONG PINOY

R.Federer wins his 5th straight US OPEN title..
Thrashing A.Murray in straight sets 6/2,7/5,6/2

Kei Nishikori’s 2008 US Open has been a truly memorable experience. Heading into this week, the 18-year-old from Japan had never before won a Grand Slam match. A few days later, he was in the third round against world No. 4 David Ferrer.

When he looks backs at this tournament down the road, Nishikori will always recall his maiden victory at a Slam against Juan Monaco. And he might even remember that he won his second-round match because his opponent was forced to retire. But surely, he’ll never forget his thrilling five-set win over Ferrer – 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 7-5 – under the lights at Louis Armstrong Stadium.

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Russian Marat Safin the US Open champion of 2000, fought through a tough first round match against Vincent Spadea, defeating the American 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 on Arthur Ashe stadium on Tuesday at Flushing Meadows.

The 28-year-old Muscovite, who defeated Pete Sampras to lift the US Open trophy in 2000, won just five points more than Spadea in the match that featured 10 breaks of serve and a total of 85 unforced errors, including 16 double faults.

Former World No. 1 Safin is currently No. 44 in the South African Airways ATP Rankings, up from No. 93 on April 21. The right-hander, who has a 22-7 record at Flushing Meadows, was a first-time semifinalist at Wimbledon (l. to Federer) in July and now improves to a 20-19 match record for the season.

This week Rafael Nadal takes over from Roger Federer, who held the No. 1 spot in the South African Airways ATP Rankings for a record 237 consecutive weeks from Feb. 2, 2004, after winning his first Australian Open title, until Aug. 17, 2008.

The last player to rank No. 1 before Federer was Andy Roddick the week of Jan. 26, 2004. Nadal also ends the longest reign at No. 2, a record 160 straight weeks. Overall, this is the 86th time the No. 1 ranking has changed hands in the past 35 years.

Rafael Nadal is the Olympic champion defeating Fernando Gonzalez 63 76(2) 63 in two hours 22 to secure the gold medal.

It took him four match points, and he finished it on an in-to-out forehand. He's already in the history books as one of the greatest-ever clay court players for his four French Open titles, but with the Wimbledon and Olympic titles, he's now edging towards being one of the all-time greatest tennis players.

Rafael Nadal has defeated Novak Djokovic 64 16 64 and will play Fernando Gonzalez for the Olympic Gold medal this Sunday

Yes,Roger Federer is out in the Olympics....
eighth seed James Blake snapped an eight-match losing streak against ATP World No. 1 Roger Federer with a 6-4, 7-6(2) win

For four years Tomas Berdych has been tagged ‘the man who beat Roger Federer at the Olympics’. That tag ought now to end after Federer gained some revenge for his Athens defeat with a 64 76(4) victory over the 22-year-old Czech.
The ever-lucid Federer made the point afterwards that the tag may have weighed more heavily on Berdych than it did on him. “I got my revenge the next time we played, which was in Hamburg and I beat him 2 and 1,” he said. But it certainly seemed as if he was more than usually up for this match.

It was a high-quality contest, which was decided in the break of the Berdych serve Federer achieved in the seventh game of the match, and the superb tiebreak the Swiss played to seal victory. Berdych might have served a little better in the second set, but he played well enough to beat most players – he just happened to be up against arguably the greatest player in tennis’s history.

He next faces J.Blake who still up to this moment need to get a win over R.Federer.

Kuznetsova said she had been having trouble with “the mental side of things” for several weeks, and that came to haunt her in her 76(5) 64 defeat to China’s No 2 player Li Na.

Kuznetsova started well enough, taking Li’s opening service game and leading 5-2, but Li was clearly psyched up for this match. Her fortunes have slumped from her career-high ranking of 16 last year, and only now is she starting to rediscover her form after a run of stomach, rib and knee problems. This was clearly her opportunity.

After taking the first set on the tiebreak, she played a great second set, marred only by freezing when leading 5-2. At 5-4 she missed her third match point, and if Kuznetsova had saved a fourth, the match could have turned. But this was Li’s moment, and as the clock struck ten, a beautifully fluent backhand forced an error out of Kuznetsova, and Li was through to a second-round match against Marina Erakovic/Ayumi Morita.