NEW YORK (AP)—Play at the U.S. Open has been suspended because of rain, with one of the outer bands from Hurricane Earl reaching Flushing Meadows. As a light rain picked up Friday, players were sent back to the locker room. Among those on the court were 18-year-old Ryan Harrison, who trailed Sergiy Stakhovsky 2-1 in [...]

NEW YORK (AP)—Defending champion Kim Clijsters has moved to the round of 16 at the U.S. Open by winning the final 12 games in her 6-3, 6-0 victory over No. 27 Petra Kvitova. No. 2 Clijsters dropped two service games to fall behind 3-0 early Friday in Arthur Ashe Stadium, then ran off 12 straight [...]

NEW YORK (AP)—Twelfth-seeded Elena Dementieva beat 24th-seeded Daniela Hantuchova 7-5, 6-2 Friday in the third round of the U.S. Open. Dementieva, the 2004 runner-up at Flushing Meadows, has reached the semifinals three times but lost in the second round last year. The Russian missed Wimbledon with a left calf injury and has fallen out of [...]

NEW YORK (AP)—French Open runner-up Samantha Stosur extended her longest run at the U.S. Open, beating Sara Errani 6-2, 6-3 in the third round Friday. The fifth-seeded Australian had never gotten past the second round at Flushing Meadows in six previous tries. But the 26-year-old is in the midst of a career year and has [...]

NEW YORK (AP)—Samantha Stosur defeated Sara Errani, Elena Dementieva eliminated Daniela Hantuchova – and both beat Hurricane Earl with quick victories Friday at the U.S. Open. Eyes were on Kim Clijsters, Andy Murray and the weather radar as play began under gray skies. The forecast from the tournament’s meteorologist called for intermittent showers. Officials planned [...]

NEW YORK (AP)—Novak Djokovic has reached the third round at the U.S. Open with a 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (6) victory over 52nd-ranked Philipp Petzschner of Germany. Play was delayed in the eighth game while police escorted away three fans after a fight in the upper deck in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Thursday night. The No. [...]

NEW YORK (AP)—Maria Sharapova has advanced to the third round of the U.S. Open with a stress-free 6-1, 6-2 victory over Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic. The 14th-seeded Sharapova had as much trouble with the wind at Arthur Ashe Stadium as with her 68th-ranked opponent Thursday night. Sharapova is looking for her second U.S. [...]

NEW YORK (AP)—A day after Victoria Azarenka collapsed on court during a singles match at the U.S. Open, she and partner Dinara Safina pulled out of women’s doubles. Azarenka and Safina originally were scheduled to face the ninth-seeded pair of Cara Black and Anastasia Rodionova in the first round of doubles Thursday. But the tournament [...]

NEW YORK (AP)—Fifth-seeded Robin Soderling has won his second-round match at the U.S. Open, defeating Taylor Dent 6-2, 6-2, 6-4. Soderling, who has reached the final at the French Open for two straight years, needed five sets for his first-round victory at Flushing Meadows but had a much easier time with Dent on Thursday. Dent [...]