The2007 US Open was held from August 27 to September 9, 2007, atUSTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center atFlushing Meadows, New York City.
Roger Federer successfully defended his title, becoming the first man in theopen era to win four consecutiveUS Open titles.Maria Sharapova was unsuccessful in defending her 2006 title, being upset in the third round by 18-year-oldAgnieszka Radwańska of Poland.Justine Henin, the runner-up to Sharapova in 2006, won her second US Open title, this year without losing a set. It was the second Grand Slam she won in the year without losing a set, having also won the2007 French Open earlier in the year. It was also her last Grand Slam title.
| 2007 US Open Timeline | |
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| Q1. | No play was possible due to rain. |
| Q2. | Rain again was a factor in delaying play, however some of the qualifying was possible. After a rain delay, play resumed in many matches. Main draws for Men's and Women's singles were mostly ready aside from qualifiers' names, however spaces where qualifiers will go was indicated. |
| Q3. | The first round of qualifying was completed and second round matches began. In formFrank Dancevic came through in the men's draw; whilst French Open girls' singles championAlizé Cornet came through in the women's. |
| Q4. | Players began qualifying for the main draw; the first on the men's side beingPablo Cuevas and the first on the women's,Renata Voráčová.Scoville Jenkins was the first American qualifier to reach the main draw. |
| Q5. | The qualification rounds concluded. Dancevic,Rainer Schüttler andAndrei Pavel qualified among others. On the women's side Cornet andAndreja Klepač came through, along withJulia Görges, who upsetNo. 6 seedAnne Kremer. |
| KD. | Kids Day was full of singing and special events. Charities were raised and matches with both professional (for example,Andy Roddick) and non-professional tennis players (for example,Tony Hawk), were played. |
| 1. | Day 1 sawAhsha Rolle,Feliciano López,Max Mirnyi,Alizé Cornet,John Isner andDonald Young cause upsets. BothSerena andVenus Williams advanced in straight sets.Guillermo Cañas needed four sets to beatRubén Ramírez Hidalgo, andFernando Verdasco survivedPaul-Henri Mathieu, 1–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–3, 6–3. Top seedsRoger Federer andJustine Henin began their campaigns with straight set victories. |
| 2. | Day 2 sawWayne Odesnik overcomingDanai Udomchoke andArnaud Clément beating big-servingIvo Karlović in thrilling matches.Martina Hingis,Juan Martín del Potro,David Nalbandian andNicole Vaidišová were some of the day's victors as the women's first round matches were completed. No. 9 seedDaniela Hantuchová became the highest seed to fall in the women's draw, losing toJulia Vakulenko. |
| 3. | Justine Henin,Serena andVenus Williams,Marat Safin,Carlos Moyà,Mikhail Youzhny,Tim Henman andRoger Federer advanced, whileRafael Nadal overcame severe knee pain to beat Australian wildcardAlun Jones. Other women to advance to round 3 includeJelena Janković,Ana Ivanovic,Lucie Šafářová,Marion Bartoli,Dinara Safina,Elena Dementieva, and local favoriteAhsha Rolle. No. 7Fernando González lost toTeymuraz Gabashvili in his opening match. |
| 4. | Day 4 sawAndy Roddick,Nikolay Davydenko,Tomáš Berdych,James Blake,Maria Sharapova,Martina Hingis andSvetlana Kuznetsova all get through their matches and enter the third round. No. 13 seedRichard Gasquet, however, walked-over from his second round match againstDonald Young, and seededGuillermo Cañas crashed out of the tournament. |
| 5. | Radek Štěpánek andNovak Djokovic battled in their match for nearly five hours before Djokovic walked away with the victory. Other players who were upset in the men's draw wereLleyton Hewitt,Mikhail Youzhny andMarat Safin.Rafael Nadal's opponent retired andTommy Robredo went five sets withMardy Fish.Ivan Ljubičić,David Ferrer andCarlos Moyà were some of the seeded players to advance.Jelena Janković got through a struggle withAlizé Cornet.Sybille Bammer upsetElena Dementieva. |
| 6. | Agnieszka Radwańska, seeded 30th, stunned the number two seed and defending championMaria Sharapova 6–4, 1–6, 6–2. The upsets continued through the day in the women's draw, withSwiss playersMartina Hingis andPatty Schnyder suffering defeat, along with another upset ofNadia Petrova packing.Andy Roddick,James Blake,Nikolay Davydenko,Tommy Haas andTomáš Berdych all went through.Roger Federer also won despite losing a tight first set. However,Andy Murray lost to Korea'sLee Hyung-taik in four sets. |
| 7. | The men's draw sawCarlos Moyà,David Ferrer,Juan Mónaco,Novak Djokovic,Rafael Nadal andStanislas Wawrinka advance to make the fourth round.Ernests Gulbis upsetTommy Robredo andJuan Ignacio Chela upset twelfth seedIvan Ljubičić. In the women's draw,Justine Henin beatDinara Safina,Serena Williams beatMarion Bartoli,Jelena Janković beatSybille Bammer andVenus Williams cruised pastAna Ivanovic. |
| 8. | Tommy Haas,Shahar Pe'er,Roger Federer,Nikolay Davydenko,Svetlana Kuznetsova andAnna Chakvetadze all advanced. However,Julia Vakulenko lost out toÁgnes Szávay. In men's doubles, the top seededBryan brothers were upset by tenth-seededSimon Aspelin andJulian Knowle. In women's doubles, second-seededLisa Raymond andSamantha Stosur were shocked byBethanie Mattek andSania Mirza. |
| 9. | Novak Djokovic was able to defeatJuan Mónaco to set up a meeting withCarlos Moyà who beatLatvianErnests Gulbis.Juan Ignacio Chela survived unseededStanislas Wawrinka in five sets to advance to the quarterfinals.Justine Henin beatSerena Williams to make the women's semifinals, andDavid Ferrer shockedRafael Nadal in a thrilling four-set match. |
| 10. | Roger Federer andNikolay Davydenko have set up a match to earn a spot in the title match. In the women's draw, the semifinal line-up was complete with three matches taking the court.Anna Chakvetadze andSvetlana Kuznetsova will face off in the semifinals, andVenus Williams beatJelena Janković in a thrilling encounter, with Venus having to come from a set down to eventually win 4–6, 6–1, 7–6. |
| 11. | David Ferrer reached his first Grand Slam semi-final by defeatingJuan Ignacio Chela, whereasNovak Djokovic beatCarlos Moyà 6–4, 7–6 (7), 6–1. and reach his third Grand Slam semifinal of the year. The mixed doubles competition was won byMax Mirnyi andVictoria Azarenka. |
| 12. | Justine Henin came through in straight sets and defeated the Williams sisters in the same tournament. Only Martina Hingis has done this. Henin and Williams battled a classic, while Anna Chakvetadze at first dominated by errors of Svetlana Kuznetsova, but then Chakvetadze had errors and Kuznetsova got by 3–6, 6–1, 6–1. |
| 13. | Justine Henin dominated her final againstSvetlana Kuznetsova and didn't lose a set in the tournament. Her 6–1, 6–3 victory over the Russian gave her a second US Open title.Esther Vergeer andJiske Griffioen won the Wheelchair Women's Doubles final while Japanese pairShingo Kunieda andSatoshi Saida won the Wheelchair Men's Doubles final overRobin Ammerlaan andMichaël Jeremiasz.Jonathan Eysseric andJérôme Inzerillo won the Boys' Doubles andKsenia Milevskaya andUrszula Radwańska won the Girls' Doubles. |
| 14. | Roger Federer won for the fourth consecutive year to bring his overall Grand Slam singles titles tally to twelve. |
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Player of the day were:[1]
Donald Young for winning his first Grand Slam match over
Chris Guccione.
Arnaud Clément for defeating someone over a foot taller than him.Robby Ginepri for showing older form in his match against
Olivier Rochus, winning a set in only 20 minutes.
Andy Murray for winning a five set match against
Jonas Björkman, returning to top form found earlier on.
Ana Ivanovic for playing superb tennis in her matches and not dropping a set.
Agnieszka Radwańska for causing the upset of the tournament in defeating defending women's singles champion
Maria Sharapova.
David Ferrer for staying strong to defeat
David Nalbandian.
Shahar Pe'er for becoming the firstIsraeli player to make the quarterfinals of the US Open.Carlos Moyà for, despite his age, reaching the US Open quarterfinals in a match where he displayed his veteran style of play.Anna Chakvetadze for reaching the first Grand Slam semifinal of her career.
Victoria Azarenka for winning the mixed doubles title.Svetlana Kuznetsova for reaching her second US Open final.Novak Djokovic for reaching his andSerbia's first (men's) Grand Slam final.
Roger Federer for winning his 12th career Grand Slam and 4th consecutive U.S. Open title.Qualifying was impossible due to rain.
Qualifying Day 2 saw much rain. However, according tothis link, players such asEmmanuelle Gagliardi,Pablo Cuevas,Jamie Baker,Steve Darcis,Alina Jidkova andAisam-ul-Haq Qureshi were winners to the following round of qualifying. In addition, main singles draws for men and women were released, except qualifiers' names; however the draw shows where qualifiers will go.Roger Federer, seeded first, will play a qualifier for the first two rounds, and possibly three consecutive rounds.[19]
The first round of qualifying was completed and second round matches began. In-formFrank Dancevic came through in the men's draw; whilst2007 French Open Girls' Singles championAlizé Cornet came through in the women's qualifying.
Players began qualifying for the main draw; the first on the men's side beingPablo Cuevas and the first on the women's,Renata Voráčová.Scoville Jenkins was the first American qualifier to reach the main draw.
Qualifying was completed as Dancevic,Rainer Schüttler andAndrei Pavel qualified among others such asBruno Echagaray, who beatRobin Haase.[20] On the women's side Cornet andAndreja Klepač came through, along withJulia Görges, who upset No. 6 seedAnne Kremer.
Coverage found onCBS or possibly other channels: Matches, songs and other events were held and played at the 2007 US Open Kids Day. Matches were held; including with non-professional tennis playersRob Thomas,Tony Hawk andJohn Cena, along with others who competed in non-match activities.
Day 1 sawFeliciano López was able to upsetJuan Carlos Ferrero, 6–3, 6–4, 6–4.Max Mirnyi defeatedMarcos Baghdatis 6–3, 7–5, 3–6, 7–6 (6), in an epic battle in which Mirnyi came back in the last-set tiebreaker from 1–5 to win 8–6. BothVenus Williams andSerena Williams continued runs, however young qualifierAlizé Cornet stunnedSamantha Stosur. Wildcard talentJohn Isner played four sets and defeated the seededJarkko Nieminen.Guillermo Cañas needed four sets to beatRubén Ramírez Hidalgo, whileFernando Verdasco came back to shock the crowd from two sets to love down to beatPaul-Henri Mathieu, 1–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–3, 6–3.Julia Görges lost toJustine Henin; whileScoville Jenkins lost toRoger Federer, 6–3, 6–2, 6–4. Home favoriteAhsha Rolle took a 6–4, 1–6, 6–2 dramatic upset win overTatiana Golovin in three sets.Donald Young also advanced and thus won his first ever US Open match, defeatingChris Guccione, 6–7 (2), 6–3, 6–2, 6–3.
Arnaud Clément and wildcardWayne Odesnik were able to advance through their matches in five sets, whileLleyton Hewitt was one who easily beat his opponent.Nicole Vaidišová andDominika Cibulková (who upsetTathiana Garbin) won their matches, whileSania Mirza was pushed andLaura Granville easily advanced. Others to win wereMartina Hingis,Juan Martín del Potro,Dudi Sela,Jürgen Melzer,Pauline Paramentier andVirginie Razzano. Lastly, doubles competition began.
Past championsJustine Henin,Serena Williams,Venus Williams,Marat Safin, andRoger Federer easily advanced to round 3 (Safin advanced to round 2), whileRafael Nadal overcame severe knee pain to beat Australian wildcardAlun Jones in 4 sets in his opening match.Tim Henman, playing in his final Grand Slam, stunned the crowd by taking out No. 27 seedDmitry Tursunov in 4 sets to advance to round 2, joined by players such asCarlos Moyà andMikhail Youzhny. Other women to advance to round 3 includeJelena Janković,Ana Ivanovic,Lucie Šafářová,Marion Bartoli,Dinara Safina,Elena Dementieva, and local favoriteAhsha Rolle. No. 7Fernando González lost in his opening match, causing the upset of the tournament so far.
The fourth day of action was all about the favorites, with most of them advancing. No. 2 seedMaria Sharapova was the highest seed in action on either draw, crushing her opponentCasey Dellacqua and she was joined by other former championsAndy Roddick,Martina Hingis andSvetlana Kuznetsova in the third round.Richard Gasquet withdrew from his match againstDonald Young with a fever and sore throat, andGuillermo Cañas was another casualty. British favoriteAndy Murray andJames Blake overcame five-set thrillers to advance, while there was also a big upset in the men's doubles draw as defending championsMartin Damm andLeander Paes crashed out.Tomáš Berdych,Tommy Haas,Nikolay Davydenko,Nadia Petrova,Anna Chakvetadze,Patty Schnyder andNicole Vaidišová were other players to advance.
Radek Štěpánek andNovak Djokovic battled their match for hours, never letting a set go be won with a six-an eventual scoreline that Djokovic can boast of 6–7, 7–6, 5–7, 7–5, 7–6.Mardy Fish saved match points only to lose despite being a break up in the final set toTommy Robredo andAgustín Calleri andPhilipp Kohlschreiber both pulled off upsets taking outLleyton Hewitt andMikhail Youzhny. In the women's draw, heavy favoritesJustine Henin,Jelena Janković,Ana Ivanovic andSerena andVenus Williams all advanced to the fourth round. They were joined there byMarion Bartoli,Dinara Safina and surprise victorSybille Bammer who upsetElena Dementieva. The doubles court saw the biggest upset of the tournament whenMaria Elena Camerin andGisela Dulko beat top seedsCara Black andLiezel Huber 1–6, 7–6(2), 6–2 after being down 6–1, 3–1.
draw includedNadia Petrova,Patty Schnyder andMartina Hingis who all lost to promising teenagers inÁgnes Szávay,Tamira Paszek andVictoria Azarenka.Shahar Pe'er also beat the thirteenth seedNicole Vaidišová. Otherwise favorites likeAndy Roddick,Anna Chakvetadze,James Blake,Nikolay Davydenko,Roger Federer,Svetlana Kuznetsova,Tomáš Berdych andTommy Haas all went through to the fourth round. In the men's draw, there was only one upset as the last British player left in the singles draw,Andy Murray, crashed out toLee Hyung-taik in four sets.
The men's fourth round line-up was completed and the women's quarterfinal began to take shape.Carlos Moyà,David Ferrer,Juan Mónaco,Novak Djokovic andRafael Nadal all expectedly made it through in the men's bottom half.Ernests Gulbis became the first Latvian player to make the fourth round of the US Open when he upset eighth seedTommy Robredo in straight sets andJuan Ignacio Chela got his first ever victory overIvan Ljubičić.Stanislas Wawrinka also continued his run. In the first of the women's fourth round matches,Justine Henin crushed an erraticDinara Safina,Serena andVenus Williams both beat dangerous opponents inMarion Bartoli andAna Ivanovic andJelena Janković needed three sets to get past AustrianSybille Bammer before eventually prevailing 6–4, 4–6, 6–1.
Home favoriteJames Blake was the biggest seed to fall as the quarter-final draw was completed on the women's side.Shahar Pe'er put a stop toAgnieszka Radwańska's run, butJulia Vakulenko was unable to haltÁgnes Szávay, a player who had previously never gone past the second round of a grand slam. RussiansSvetlana Kuznetsova andAnna Chakvetadze progressed with relative ease. James Blake threw three match points in his thriller withTommy Haas, unable to repeat the previous year's showing of a quarterfinal.Andy Roddick was leading when a second opponent,Tomáš Berdych, retired on him in a week.Roger Federer lost the first set but ultimately had a comfortable victory andNikolay Davydenko progressed, still the only player on the men's side not to drop a set. In men's doubles, the top seeded Bryan brothers were upset by tenth-seededSimon Aspelin andJulian Knowle 7–5, 6–4. It was Aspelin's first time in a Grand Slam semifinal and Knowle's second. In women's doubles, second-seededLisa Raymond andSamantha Stosur were shocked by sixteenth-seededBethanie Mattek andSania Mirza 2–6, 7–5, 7–5.
Novak Djokovic needed four sets to overcomeJuan Mónaco after having a match point in the third set, and set up a meeting withCarlos Moyà who beat LatvianErnests Gulbis.Juan Ignacio Chela survived unseededStanislas Wawrinka in five sets to advance to the quarterfinals. Number oneJustine Henin beatSerena Williams to make the women's semifinals, and in a match that ended at 1:50 a.m. local time,David Ferrer caused the biggest upset in the men's draw so far by taking out second-seeded fellow SpaniardRafael Nadal in a thrilling four-set match.
The men's semifinals began to take shape asRoger Federer overcameAndy Roddick in a thrilling 7–6, 7–6, 6–2 encounter to move through to the semifinals, where he will face RussianNikolay Davydenko who beatTommy Haas earlier in the day, also in straight sets. In the women's draw, the semifinal line-up was complete with three matches taking the court.Anna Chakvetadze was first, cruising pastShahar Pe'er 6–4, 6–1, and will meet compatriotSvetlana Kuznetsova in the last four for a place in the final. In the women's night match,Venus Williams beatJelena Janković in a thrilling encounter, with Venus having to come from a set down to eventually win 4–6, 6–1, 7–6.
David Ferrer continued his scintillating run, reaching his first Grand Slam semi-final by defeatingJuan Ignacio Chela 6–2, 6–3, 7–5. The final men's quarterfinal didn't last much longer, withNovak Djokovic holding his nerve to beatCarlos Moyà 6–4, 7–6 (7), 6–1 and reach his third Grand Slam semi-final of the year. The mixed doubles competition was completed, withBelarusiansMax Mirnyi andVictoria Azarenka overcomingMeghann Shaughnessy andLeander Paes 6–4, 7–6 (6).
Justine Henin came through in straight sets and defeated the Williams sisters in the same tournament. OnlyMartina Hingis has done this. Henin and Williams battled a classic, whileAnna Chakvetadze at first dominated by errors ofSvetlana Kuznetsova, but then Chakvetadze had errors and Kuznetsova got by 3–6, 6–1, 6–1.
Justine Henin cruised to her second US Open championship, crushingSvetlana Kuznetsova 6–1, 6–3 to win the title.Esther Vergeer once again won a doubles final, this time alongsideJiske Griffioen.Shingo Kunieda andSatoshi Saida won the Wheelchair Men's Doubles final overRobin Ammerlaan andMichaël Jeremiasz. In juniors competition,Jonathan Eysseric andJérôme Inzerillo defeatedGrigor Dimitrov andVasek Pospisil to win the title, whileKsenia Milevskaya andUrszula Radwańska dominated their final againstOksana Kalashnikova andKsenia Lykina.
Roger Federer won for the fourth consecutive year to bring his overall Grand Slam singles titles tally to twelve.
Roger Federer defeatedNovak Djokovic, 7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–2), 6–4
Justine Henin defeatedSvetlana Kuznetsova, 6–1, 6–3
Simon Aspelin /
Julian Knowle defeated
Lukáš Dlouhý /Pavel Vízner, 7–5, 6–4
Nathalie Dechy /Dinara Safina defeated
Chan Yung-jan /Chuang Chia-jung, 6–4, 6–2
Victoria Azarenka /Max Mirnyi defeatedMeghann Shaughnessy /
Leander Paes, 6–4, 7–6(8–6)
Ričardas Berankis defeatedJerzy Janowicz, 6–3, 6–4
Kristína Kučová defeatedUrszula Radwańska, 6–3, 1–6, 7–6(4)
Jonathan Eysseric /Jérôme Inzerillo defeated
Grigor Dimitrov /
Vasek Pospisil, 6–2, 6–4
Ksenia Milevskaya /Urszula Radwańska defeated
Oksana Kalashnikova /Ksenia Lykina, 6–1, 6–2
Shingo Kunieda defeated
Robin Ammerlaan, 6–2, 6–2
Esther Vergeer defeatedFlorence Gravellier, 6–3, 6–1
Shingo Kunieda /Satoshi Saida defeatedRobin Ammerlaan /Michaël Jeremiasz, 6–3, 6–2
Jiske Griffioen /Esther Vergeer defeatedKorie Homan /Sharon Walraven, 6–1, 6–1
Peter Norfolk defDavid Wagner, 7–6(5), 6–2
Nick Taylor /David Wagner defeatedSarah Hunter /Peter Norfolk, 6–1, 4–6, 6–0[21]
Conchita Martínez andJana Novotná
Round robin 1:Natasha Zvereva /
Andrés Gómez
Round robin 2:Anne Smith /Stan Smith
The seeded players are listed below. Notably, it was the first time in 11 years that the two top seeded players, and the two world number one singles players, won the US Open Singles Championships (the last previous time had been whenPete Sampras andSteffi Graf won in 1996).
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Below are the lists of thewild card awardees entering in the main draws.
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Jill Craybas /Bobby ReynoldsAlexa Glatch /Scoville JenkinsAshley Harkleroad /Justin GimelstobVania King /Vince SpadeaCorina Morariu /Amer DelićAshley Weinhold /Ryan Sweeting
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The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:
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Coverage of the 2007 US Open are as follows:
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