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2009 US Open (tennis)
2009 US Open Heather Watson
Boys’ Doubles
Marton Fucsovics / Hsieh Cheng-peng
Girls’ Doubles
Valeria Solovieva / Maryna Zanevska
Wheelchair Men’s Singles
Shingo Kunieda
Wheelchair Women’s Singles
Esther Vergeer
Wheelchair Quad Singles
Peter Norfolk
Wheelchair Men’s Doubles
Stephane Houdet / Stefan Olsson
Wheelchair Women’s Doubles
Date: August 31 – September 14
Korie Homan / Esther Vergeer
Edition: 129th
Wheelchair Quad Doubles
Category: Grand Slam (ITF)
Nicholas Taylor / David Wagner
Location: New York City, USA
US Open
Champions
Men’s Singles
Juan Martín del Potro The 2009 US Open was a tennis tournament played on
outdoor hard courts, held from August 31 to September
Women’s Singles
14, 2009 in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Cen-
ter at Flushing Meadows, New York City, United States.
Kim Clijsters
Originally, it was scheduled to end with the mens’ singles
Men’s Doubles final match on Sunday, September 13, but due to rain the
tournament was extended by one day. Like the Australian
Lukáš Dlouhý / Leander Paes Open, the tournament featured night matches.
Women’s Doubles Former World No. 1 and 2005 US Open women’s sin-
gles champion, Kim Clijsters, competed in the 2009 US
Serena Williams / Venus Williams Open[1] after being granted a wild card entry, returning
Mixed Doubles
to professional tennis after more than two years of re-
tirement. She made it to the women’s singles semi-finals,
Carly Gullickson / Travis Parrott where she knocked out the defending champion Serena
Boys’ Singles
Williams in controversial circumstances. In the final, Cli-
jsters defeated Caroline Wozniacki, the first Dane, man
Bernard Tomic or woman, to reach a Grand Slam final in the Open Era,
in straight sets: 7–5, 6–3. Clijsters thus became the first
Girls’ Singles
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mother to win a Grand Slam since Evonne Goolagong • Day 11: , for defeating Marin Čilić in four sets to
Cawley in 1980. advance to the semifinals of the US Open for the first
In the men’s singles final, five time consecutive win- time.[13]
ner Roger Federer lost to Argentina’s Juan Martín del • Day 12: No matches played due to rain.
Potro in a match lasting over four hours. • Day 13: , for beating Yanina Wickmayer 6–3, 6–3
in the semifinals, thus becoming the first Dane, man
Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day or woman, to reach a Grand Slam final in the Open
Era.[14]
The Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day was held on August 29, 2009,
• Day 14: , for beating Novak Djoković in the
prior to the start of the tournament. It featured an ex-
semifinals 7–6(3), 7–5, 7–5, thus reaching his 21st
hibition tennis match involving American player Andy
Grand Slam and 6th consecutive US Open final.[15]
Roddick and Great Britain’s Andy Murray, who were
• Day 15: , for winning his first Grand Slam title,
joined by actor and comedian Will Ferrell. American Idol
winner Jordin Sparks performed her hit single "Battle- ending Roger Federer’s streak of consecutive US
field", along with rising stars Honor Society and Justin Open championships at five.[16]
Bieber. There were also tennis matches and contests fea-
turing Serena Williams, Ana Ivanović Andy Roddick,
Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, Kim Clijsters, and James
Day-by-day summaries
Blake. The popular tennis and music festival, which in-
cluded interactive games, musical entertainment and Day 1 (August 31)
tennis clinics, was hosted by television personalities
Susie Castillo and Quddus.[2]
Singles players
Men’s Singles
Women’s Singles
Player of the Day
• Day 1: , for winning her first match at the US Open in
4 years.[3]
• Day 2: , for defeating 29th-seeded Igor Andreev
6–4, 6–0, 6–2 his first career win at a Grand Slam at
the age of 26 and ranked 276.[4]
• Day 3: , for defeating Sania Mirza 6–0, 6–0,
which was her third consecutive 6–0 set.[5]
• Day 4: , ranked 70th, for eliminating world #4
Elena Dementieva, after losing the first set and
overcoming a thigh injury to win the final set.[6]
• Day 5: , for defeating #8 seed Victoria Azarenka
despite losing the first set. [7]
• Day 6: , for defeating former world #1 and the 29th Simon Greul serving to Giovanni Lapentti in Round 1
seed Maria Sharapova, losing the first set and
winning 7–5 in the third.[8] The first day of the tournaments saw many seeds get
• Day 7: , For reaching the round of 16 for the first through pretty easily in straight sets: Roger Federer,
time, and for not dropping a set to this point.[9] James Blake, Lleyton Hewitt, Nikolay Davydenko and
• Day 8: , for beating Gisela Dulko in only 47 Radek Štěpánek. The day also produced a couple of up-
minutes 6–0, 6–0, advancing to her first grand slam sets, when Mikhail Youzhny continued 26th seeded Paul-
quarterfinal.[10] Henri Mathieu’s horrible US Open record by beating him
• Day 9: , for defeating ATP No. 2 Andy Murray in in four. While, tall American John Isner did the same to
three sets.[11] 28th seeded Victor Hănescu by ending the Romanian’s
2009 bid in three with the second set going to a tie-
• Day 10: , for defeating Kateryna Bondarenko in
break 16-14. The exciting day continued with a couple of
straight sets and becoming the second Belgian player
five-set marathons, with Simon Greul defeating Giovanni
in the semifinals.[12]
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Lapentti, Guillermo García López out-lasting Peter Polan- Karlović falling to Iván Navarro and Igor Andreev falling
sky, and Jan Hernych surviving against Rainer Schüttler. to American Jesse Witten, both in straight sets, while
The days last match featured America’s hope Andy Rod- Stanislas Wawrinka fell in five. American players were
dick prevailing over Björn Phau in straight sets in a once again successful, with 5 out of the 11 getting past
match that started at 11:00 pm.[17] the first round: Sam Querrey, Kevin Kim, Jesse Witten,
Jesse Levine, and Taylor Dent.
On the women’s side, the first major upset of the
tournament occurred with Ukrainian Kateryna Bon-
darenko upsetting 11th seed and former world no. 1 Ana
Ivanović. Ivanović committed 50 unforced errors. In the
second round, her sister Alyona Bondarenko, 2009
French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, Maria
Sharapova, Elena Dementieva, Nadia Petrova and Tathi-
ana Garbin all advanced. Other seeded players that were
eliminated in the first round were 32nd seed Ágnes Szá-
vay, losing to Israeli Shahar Pe’er in straight sets, Alisa
Kleybanova, losing to Petra Kvitová in three and Virginie
Venus Williams returns against Vera Dushevina on the open- Razzano losing to Yanina Wickmayer in straight sets. Day
ing day 2 was a good day for women American players with three
out of five getting through: Melanie Oudin, Shenay Perry,
On the women’s side, former world no. 1 Kim Clijsters and Christina McHale. However, world no. 1 Dinara Sa-
opened the play, winning over Viktoriya Kutuzova losing fina struggled in her match against Olivia Rogowska but
only two games. Joining her were defending 2009 Wim- manage to survive, winning in three sets[20]
bledon and Australian Open champion Serena Williams, On the doubles side, the day was led by 2nd seeded
Amélie Mauresmo, Victoria Azarenka, Flavia Pennetta, Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić, who won in straight
Elena Vesnina, Agnieszka Radwańska, Li Na and Marion sets, and the only seeds that were eliminated were No. 15
Bartoli who all won in two sets. Australian Samantha Sto- seed Stephen Huss and Ross Hutchins
sur was pushed by veteran player Ai Sugiyama in three Seeded players out
sets, Daniela Hantuchová got past American Meghann • Men’s Singles: Igor Andreev, Ivo Karlović,
Shaughnessy in three as well. In the first night match,
Stanislas Wawrinka
Venus Williams was able to claw her way to avoid an
upset to win against Russian Vera Dushevina in a very • Women’s Singles: Ana Ivanović, Alisa
close three-setter. Venus committed four foot faults in Kleybanova, Virginie Razzano, Ágnes
the match.[18] With Venus and Serena getting past the Szávay
first round, a few American players saw success on the • Men’s Doubles: Stephen Huss / Ross
women’s side with Vania King, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Hutchins
and Jill Craybas getting to the second round. Austrian Schedule of play
and 28th seeded Sybille Bammer, who defeated Serena
Williams in Cincinnati, and 25th seeded Kaia Kanepi were Day 3 (September 2)
the only casualties of the day. The men’s side saw Rafael Nadal playing his first match at
Seeded players out the 2009 US Open and winning against his friend Richard
• Men’s Singles: Victor Hănescu, Paul-Henri Gasquet. He was joined by no. 1 seed Roger Federer, Juan
Mathieu Martín del Potro, Gaël Monfils, Lleyton Hewitt, Juan Car-
• Women’s Singles: Sybille Bammer, Kaia los Ferrero, and Gilles Simon, who all won in straight,
Kanepi while David Ferrer, Nicolás Almagro and American Robby
Schedule of play Ginepri won in 4. Joining them was Austrian Jürgen Melz-
er, who defeated Marat Safin in Safin’s last Grand Slam
Day 2 (September 1) match.[22]
On the women’s side, upsets continued with Amélie
On the men’s side, many seeded players got through in
Mauresmo falling to Aleksandra Wozniak, Anabel Medina
straight sets: 2008 US Open runner-up Andy Murray, 2008
Garrigues losing to Kirsten Flipkens, and dark horse fa-
Australian Open Champion Novak Djokovic, Tomáš
vorite Australian Samantha Stosur losing to American
Berdych, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Fernando González, and
Vania King,[23] all in straight sets, while Marion Bartoli
Fernando Verdasco. No. 30 seed Victor Troicki survived a
and Agnieszka Radwańska both fell to resurging players
five-set scare, 6-3, 6-3, 1-6, 2-6, 6-1. However, some seeds
Kim Clijsters and Maria Kirilenko in three. However, the
failed to be as lucky and fell in the first round with Ivo
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day also saw half of the seeds getting through easily and On the doubles side, it was the opposite, with all of
was led by former champion Venus Williams and Flavia the women’s doubles seeds getting through. However, on
Pennetta, who won in double bagel, Victoria Azarenka, the men’s side, the highest seeded players who fell were
Francesca Schiavone, Elena Vesnina, and Li Na. The day no. 9 seeded Łukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach, losing to
ended for the first time in over 30 years in the US Open veteran doubles players Leoš Friedl and Jaroslav Levin-
history by a women’s match, which saw Serena Williams ský.
dispatching Melinda Czink in just 53 minutes.[24] Seeded players out
On the doubles side, there were a couple of major • Women’s Singles: Alyona Bondarenko,
upsets: sixth seeded Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin
Elena Dementieva, Jelena Janković, Sabine
Matkowski, fell in their opening round, as well as unseed-
ed world no. 8 in doubles Lisa Raymond and her partner Lisicki, Patty Schnyder
Shenay Perry. • Men’s Doubles: Simon Aspelin / Paul
Seeded players out Hanley, Łukasz Kubot / Oliver Marach,
• Women’s Singles: Marion Bartoli, Amélie Travis Parrott / Filip Polášek
Mauresmo, Anabel Medina Garrigues, Schedule of play
Agnieszka Radwańska, Samantha Stosur
• Men’s Doubles: Ashley Fisher / Jordan Kerr, Day 5 (September 4)
Mariusz Fyrstenberg / Marcin Matkowski The fifth day of the US Open saw many seeds struggle
• Women’s Doubles: Raquel Kops-Jones / on the men’s side, with no. 30 seed Viktor Troicki losing
Abigail Spears to Julien Benneteau in four sets, and no. 18 seed David
Schedule of play Ferrer losing to José Acasuso in five sets. This day also
saw Rafael Nadal[28] and Andy Murray struggle with their
Day 4 (September 3) matches, with both of them being pushed to four sets. A
Day 4 continued the success of the top men’s seeds, with couple of seeds were also pushed to four: Tomáš Berdych
no. 4 seed Novak Djokovic dispatching Carsten Ball 6-2, and Fernando González. No. 24 seed Juan Carlos Ferrero
6-4, 6-4. He was joined by 2009 French Open runner-up and no. 16 seed Marin Čilić both survived their matches,
Robin Söderling, 2009 French Open semifinalist Tommy despite losing the first two sets. Many victors were
Haas, 2009 Hamburg Open Champion Nikolay Davydenko, pushed to five sets: Nicolás Almagro, a returning Taylor
Philipp Kohlschreiber, and Tommy Robredo. The Ameri- Dent, and Denis Istomin. Although many seeds struggled,
cans once again took advantage of their home court, with French seeds got through easily with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga,
four of them winning their matches: James Blake sur- Gaël Monfils, and Gilles Simon winning their Matches on
viving against Olivier Rochus in four, with Blake com- straight sets. They were joined by Argentine Juan Martín
mitting 53 unforced errors, John Isner, Jesse Witten, and del Potro, who also won in straight sets.
Sam Querrey. Andy Roddick once again got through easi- On the women’s side, there were not a lot of sur-
ly against Marc Gicquel 6-1, 6-4, 6-4. He produced 33 win- prises, except Victoria Azarenka, who fell to Italian
ners and only 10 unforced errors in the last match of the Francesca Schiavone in three sets after Azarenka double-
night. faulted on a match point.[29] The rest of the matches
The women’s side received a lot of buzz, with 17-year- were all won in straight sets, led by Serena Williams, who
old American Melanie Oudin upsetting hot favorite and defeated María José Martínez Sánchez, who had a contro-
US Open Series champion Elena Dementieva in the sec- versial match at the 2009 French Open. She was joined by
ond round. Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan upset last Daniela Hantuchová, who crushed American Vania King,
year’s runner-up Jelena Janković in three sets.[26] Seeded Li Na, Kim Clijsters, Flavia Pennetta, and Venus Williams.
players who joined Dementieva and Janković were Aly- One seeded player, Elena Vesnina, was eliminated, but
ona Bondarenko, who lost to Gisela Dulko, and Patty Sch- it wasn’t a major shocker, as she fell to 7th seed Vera
nyder, who lost in straight sets, while Sabine Lisicki lost Zvonareva.
in three to the last Australian and qualifier on the draw On the doubles side, there were no major surprises on
Anastasia Rodionova. No. 1 seed Dinara Safina once again the men’s side, but on the women’s side, seventh seeded
survived a scare from Kristina Barrois, winning 6(5)–7, Su-Wei Hsieh and Shuai Peng were ousted by the Ameri-
6–2, 6–3. However, a few seeded players got through can team of Alexa Glatch and Carly Gullickson. They were
quite easily, led by Russians Svetlana Kuznetsova, Maria followed by no. 14 seed Sania Mirza and Francesca Schi-
Sharapova, Nadia Petrova, and Danish player Caroline avone, who lost to Shahar Pe’er and Gisela Dulko in a
Wozniacki. Unseeded players who got through in straight tight three-setter
sets were Kateryna Bondarenko, who eliminated Seeded players out
Ivanović, Shahar Pe’er, Sara Errani, and Petra Kvitová. • Men’s Singles: David Ferrer, Viktor Troicki
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• Women’s Singles: Victoria Azarenka, Elena • Men’s Doubles: František Čermák / Michal
Vesnina Mertiňák, Bruno Soares / Kevin Ullyett,
• Women’s Doubles: Hsieh Su-Wei / Peng Marcelo Melo / André Sá
Shuai, Sania Mirza / Francesca Schiavone Schedule of play
• Mixed Doubles: Nadia Petrova / Max
Mirnyi Day 7 (September 6)
Schedule of play
Day 6 (September 5)
Five-time defending champion Swiss Roger Federer took
out the 2001 Champion Lleyton Hewitt in four sets after
losing the first to set up a match-up with Spaniard Tom-
my Robredo in the fourth round, who beat American
James Blake in three sets. Swede Robin Söderling took
out the young American Sam Querrey in four sets in or-
der to advance to face Russian Nikolay Davydenko in the
fourth round, who won his match against Swiss qualifier
Marco Chiudinelli in straight sets. One-time slam cham-
pion Novak Djokovic won in a four-set match after losing
the first set against American qualifier Jesse Witten in or-
der to advance to the fourth round against Czech Radek
Štěpánek, who won in a match against German Philipp
Kohlschreiber in four sets after losing the first. Spaniard
Fernando Verdasco sent German Tommy Haas packing in
a brutal five-set match, Verdasco met American John Is-
ner in the next round because Isner eliminated the 2003
champion Andy Roddick from the tournament in another
five-set battle.[31]
American Melanie Oudin defeated three-time slam
champion and 2006 US Open Champion Russian Maria
Sharapova in three sets, losing the first and winning the
next two to advance into the fourth round. Russian Nadia Fernando González returning to Tomáš Berdych
Petrova defeated Chinese Zheng Jie 6-4, 6-1 to set up a
match with Melanie Oudin in the fourth round. Danish Spaniards Rafael Nadal and Nicolás Almagro played in
Caroline Wozniacki took out doubles partner Romanian a third-round match which was won in straight sets by
Sorana Cîrstea in the third round in 6-3, 6-2, which al- Rafael Nadal, who will face Frenchman Gaël Monfils in
lowed her to set up a match with Svetlana Kuznetsova the fourth round. Monfils beat Argentine José Acasuso in
in the fourth round, after Kuznetsova beat Israeli Shahar straight sets. Chilean Fernando González won in straight
Pe’er 7-5, 6-1. Ukrainian Kateryna Bondarenko bested sets against Czech Tomáš Berdych and will face French-
Australian qualifier Anastasia Rodionova in the third man Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who beat fellow Frenchman
round 7-6(4), 6-4, which allowed her to meet Argentine Julien Benneteau in straight sets. Spaniard Juan Carlos
Gisela Dulko, who beat Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova Ferrero won over higher-seeded Frenchman Gilles Si-
6-3, 6-4. Czech Petra Kvitová took down top-seeded world mon. Ferrero advanced to play Argentine Juan Martín
no. 1 Russian Dinara Safina[32] in three up-and-down sets del Potro, who won in four sets over Austrian Daniel
4-6, 6-2, 7-6(5). This set up a fourth-round match with Köllerer. Croatian Marin Čilić won in three easy sets over
Belgian Yanina Wickmayer, who took down Italian Sara Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan to face Briton Andy Murray,
Errani with a score of 6-3, 6-4. who beat American Taylor Dent in three sets.
Seeded players out American Serena Williams beat Slovakian Daniela
Hantuchová in two sets that totaled 64 minutes of action
• Men’s Singles: James Blake, Tommy Haas,
to face in the quarterfinals Italian Flavia Pennetta, who
Lleyton Hewitt, Philipp Kohlschreiber,
beat Russian Vera Zvonareva. Zvonareva had six match
Sam Querrey, Andy Roddick
points in the second set, but had a meltdown and lost the
• Women’s Singles: Sorana Cîrstea, Zheng Jie, third set 6-0.[34] Chinese Li Na won in two sets over Ital-
Dinara Safina, Maria Sharapova ian Francesca Schiavone. Na advanced to play wild-card
Belgian Kim Clijsters, who took down third-seeded Venus
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2009, including the 2009 French Open final and the 2009
Wimbledon Championships fourth round, which were
both won by Federer. Spaniard Fernando Verdasco beat
American John Isner to advance into the quarterfinals,
which means for the first time in US Open history no
American male advanced into the quarterfinals of the
tournament.[36] Verdasco will face Serbian Novak
Djokovic in the quarterfinals because Djokovic took down
Czech Radek Štěpánek in straight sets. After defeating
Štěpánek, Djokovic provided a light-hearted moment for
the crowd along with former tennis great and current
commentator John McEnroe. Djokovic began by imper-
sonating McEnroe, who grew up in the nearby Queens
neighborhood of Douglaston. He then motioned for
McEnroe to come down from the press box; McEnroe
obliged, mimicking some of Djokovic’s mannerisms be-
fore the two played a few points. The two then embraced
at the net.
The first match featured Ukrainian Kateryna Bon-
darenko making quick work of Argentine Gisela Dulko in
double-bagel sets in 47 minutes. Dulko had beaten Bon-
darenko’s sister, Alyona Bondarenko, in the second
round. with Dulko making 20 unforced errors compared
to Bondarenko’s 6, while Bondarenko made 17 winners to
Dulko’s 7[37] Melanie Oudin’s Cinderella story continues
at the 2009 US Open. The 17-year-old Georgia native’s in-
credible run is still going strong, as Oudin advanced to
her first Grand Slam quarterfinal with a 1-6, 7-6(2), 6-3
Elena Vesnina in a doubles match with Maria Kirilenko
come-from-behind win over No. 13 seed Nadia Petrova.
On her third match point, Oudin hit a screaming fore-
Williams in three sets after two love games, 6-0 for Cli- hand crosscourt winner that landed out of Petrova’s
jsters and 0-6 for Venus Williams. The third set went to reach. The second the ball hit the open court, she raised
Clijsters in one break of Venus’s serve 6-4. her arms and dropped her racket, with the entire crowd
Seeded players out in Arthur Ashe Stadium on its feet and erupting in cele-
• Men’s Singles: Nicolás Almagro, Tomáš bration. But the cheers were not only limited to the main
Berdych, Gilles Simon show court. Petrova dominated through the beginning
stages of the match, using her power baseline game to
• Women’s Singles: Daniela Hantuchová,
stun the young American. An opening service break was
Francesca Schiavone, Venus Williams, Vera the only time Petrova dropped a game in the first set. But
Zvonareva it wasn’t until the second set that her game started to fall
• Men’s Doubles: Martin Damm / Robert apart, and she just could not keep the ball in play. Petro-
Lindstedt va hit a staggering 59 unforced errors on the match, 25
• Women’s Doubles: Anna-Lena Grönefeld / of which came in the second set, and another 22 in the
third. The second set saw Oudin take a quick 5-0 lead in
Patty Schnyder, Anabel Medina Garrigues /
the breaker, capitalizing on the Russian’s errors. A Petro-
Virginia Ruano Pascual
va forehand that sailed wide gave the American the set.
• Mixed Doubles: Anna-Lena Grönefeld / Petrova served to stay in the match at 5-3, saving two
Mark Knowles match points. But on Oudin’s third match point, she fired
Schedule of play a solid crosscourt forehand, a shot that she relied on to
win so many rallies in the match, and closed it out. Bel-
Day 8 (September 7) gian Yanina Wickmayer won in a three-set match against
Swede Robin Söderling advanced to the quarterfinals Czech Petra Kvitová to advance into the quarterfinals,
with a retirement of Russian Nikolay Davydenko to face making two Belgians who have advanced to the quarter-
the Swiss Roger Federer, who beat Spaniard Tommy Ro- finalss for the first time since the 2003 US Open tourna-
bredo in straight sets. This will mark the third time the ment, the first set saw Kvitová control the match with
duo of Federer and Söderling has met in a Grand Slam in her winners and unforced errors, the rest of the match
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saw the same with Wickmayer making more winners and • Mixed Doubles: Bethanie Mattek-Sands /
unforced errors, however for Kvitová, Wickmayer took
Nenad Zimonjić, Lisa Raymond / Marcin
advantage of the Czech’s unforced errors and win the
Matkowski, Rennae Stubbs / Robert
match 4-6 6-4 7-5. Caroline Wozniacki survived over an
Lindstedt
erratic Svetlana Kuznetsova 2-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3) in an ab-
Schedule of play
sorbing 2 ½ hour contest that kicked off Monday’s night
session on Arthur Ashe Stadium. The ninth seed saved
a pair of match points prior to the final tiebreak with
Day 9 (September 8)
courageous winners. She ended up losing the last four In the fourth round of men’s singles, Juan Martín del
points of the affair, though, and delivered a staggering Potro won in straight sets over 2003 finalist Juan Carlos
63 unforced errors 55 coming from the last 2 sets to go Ferrero 6-3 6-3 6-3, The first set saw del Potro convert
along with 59 winners. Wozniacki was more solid, with the only break point in the set, while on the second set
respective numbers of 25 and 16. Things started off well he converted 2 out 3, while Ferrero failed the two that
for Wozniacki, breaking Kuznetsova at the start. A fierce he had, while on the third set del Potro convert only one
Kuznetsova forehand overpowered Wozniacki in the en- of his 5 opportunities and Ferrero once again wasn’t able
suing game to make it. Wozniacki’s misery was complete to capitalize with the two he had, Ferrero only serve 66%
in getting broken at 2-5 from 40-15 up. The errors in- of his first serve, which was unusual for the Spaniard .
creased for the Russian, and mounted in the third game, This set up a quarterfinal clash with Marin Čilić, who up-
especially on the backhand. Wozniacki broke, conced- set second-seeded Andy Murray in straight sets as well,
ed serve, and regained the advantage for 5-4. Kuznetso- this match saw Murray losing his fire, as he failed to con-
va picked on a second serve to make it 5-5, and a first vert all of his 7 break points opportunities, while Cilic
tiebreak was needed. Wozniacki won it 7-5. Twelve of the converted 5 of his 9, Cilic was also impressive in the net
14 points saw either a Kuznetsova winner or unforced er- as he converted 19 of 20 net points. In a closely con-
ror. Somewhat predictably, Kuznetsova then hit a fore- tested match Fernando González prevailed over French-
hand into the net as Wozniacki stood stranded on the man Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in four sets, Tsonga rushed the
baseline. Riding the momentum, Wozniacki tossed away net with a pair of successful serve-and-volley plays to
the first game of the decider, broken after leading 40-15. hold for 1-0. Then Tsonga broke the Gonzalez serve at the
Kuznetsova almost reciprocated, but hung on by putting fourth games for a 3-1 lead. The Chilean reacted by bash-
away a smash for 2-0. Kuznetsova’s collapse began at ing his Babolat frame into the backdrop, scaring a ball-
3-2, missing three routine forehands. Down 4-3 and tied boy and drawing a healthy round of "boos" from the fans.
15-all, Kuznetsova sent an easy backhand volley wide. He bounced it off the court four points later before win-
Two more unforced errors followed, allowing Wozniacki ning back the crowd by donating the cursed racquet to
to serve for the match. Kuznetsova broke back, and then a fan in the front row. Despite getting back the fans he
faced a first match point at 4-5 when a tentative forehand wasn’t able to break back. Gonzalez started the second
gave Wozniacki a backhand pass, which he took. Typical set strongly, holding at love and earning a break point in
of Kuznetsova, a stunning backhand down the line Tsonga’s first service game. Tsonga serve-and-volleyed
thwarted the danger. Two straight aces made it 5-5, but off a 128 mph delivery, but the Chilean’s dipping back-
Kuznetsova blew a 30-0 lead at 5-6, double faulting to set hand return forced him to hit a defensive volley, allowing
up match point No. 2. She went for it again, and deliv- Gonzalez to crush a crosscourt forehand winner. Tsonga
ered, smacking an inside out forehand winner. An ace had a chance to break back at 1-3, but Gonzalez ran him
eventually leveled the score at 6-6. Wozniacki pulled off the court with another crosscourt forehand before
ahead 3-0. Pegged back to 3-3, Kuznetsova let Wozniacki stretching for a drop volley winner. He pumped his fist,
off the hook by sending a forehand into the net, and slic- held his serve, then clinched the second set. Little sep-
ing a backhand into the net. An errant return sailed wide arated the players during the 61-minute third set. with
for 6-3, and this time there was no comeback. A forehand the set coming to a tie-break. Gonzalez saved three break
into the net made it 7-3. points in the sixth game, holding with a run-around fore-
Seeded players out hand winner. Tsonga returned the favor in the 11th game
by fighting off three break points on his own serve, punc-
• Men’s Singles: Nikolay Davydenko, Tommy
tuating the hold with a 137 mph service winner. From 3-4
Robredo, Radek Štěpánek in the tiebreaker, Tsonga made two more first serves, but
• Women’s Singles: Svetlana Kuznetsova, Gonzalez hit two better backhand passing shots. He took
Nadia Petrova the set with an ace off the service tee, to the delight of
• Women’s Doubles: Daniela Hantuchová / Ai a large Chilean contingent in the crowd. Tsonga let two
Sugiyama, Vania King / Monica Niculescu break points slip away in the first game of the fourth
set as Gonzalez fired yet another round of forehands at
the Frenchman. The seventh-seeded Tsonga finished just
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1-of-14 on break points. Gonzalez risked losing the crowd Day 10 (September 9)
support again early in the fourth when he broke with US
The first quarterfinals match in the Men’s side featured
Open tradition and demanded a ball back from a fan who
no. 4 seed Novak Djokovic taking on no. 10 seed Fernando
caught it. One point later, Tsonga hit an overhead win-
Verdasco, with Novak Djokovic prevailing over Fernando
ner into the crowd, as if to make up for Gonzalez’ re-
Verdasco 7–6(2), 1–6, 7–5, 6–2 to reach his third straight
quest for his ball back earlier in the match. Gonzalez then
semi-finals in the US Open, even though not playing his
broke Tsonga in the game and the 11th-seeded Gonza-
best according to his own standards. The first set showed
lez advanced to his second US Open quarterfinal, hav-
a slow start for both players with Djokovic making 19 un-
ing reached this stage seven years ago. He is now set to
forced errors while Verdasco making 18, with Djokovic
face Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals who outlasted the
eventually prevailing 7-6(2), The second set featured a
last Frenchman Gaël Monfils in four sets, the first fea-
domination by Verdasco, breaking the Djokovic serve 3
tured Monfils give up an early lead in the 1st set but still
times out of 8 opportunities while not facing a break
claimed it in a tie-break, despite a good 1st set, the next
point on his own serve, The third set saw Verdasco gave
sets saw Nadal takeover the match, as he converted 7 of
out the set making 21 unforced errors compared to
his 12 break point opportunities.
Djokovic’s, The final set saw Djokovic prevail over Ver-
Belgian wild-card Kim Clijsters won over Chinese Li
dasco 6-2 to win the match, with Verdasco struggling
Na in two sets 6-2, 6-4 to make it to the semifinals, in the
with an abdominal injury, calling a trainer trailing 1-2
first set Li uncharacteristically made a lot of unforced er-
in the set, Djokovic claimed the last 5 out 6 games. The
rors, but the second set saw a much more competitive
next match saw Robin Söderling vs no. 1 seed Roger Fed-
match between the two in the first 8 games, however Cli-
erer, this was the third time Federer and Söderling met
jsters was able to crush Li in the last two games. The next
in a slam in 2009, including the French Open Final, and
match featured American Serena Williams who took out
the fourth round at Wimbledon. With Federer prevailing
a gritty competitor in Italian Flavia Pennetta in the quar-
6–0, 6–3, 6–7(6), 7–6(6) to win over the Swed. Federer
terfinals in two hard-fought sets. After both players held
won the first two sets comfortably 6-0, 6-3 in just 59 min-
serve in the first nine games of the first set, Pennetta fi-
utes, however the third set saw Söderling claw back in
nally cracked while serving at 4-5. She had a double fault
the match by claiming the third set in a tie-break 8-6,
and then hit three consecutive errors with her forehand
while the fourth set saw Federer win the match with
to lose the game at love, Serena on the other hand didn’t
same score in the tie-break as well, the last two sets fea-
face any break points. The second set saw Pennetta’s in-
tured no breaks not break point opportunities.
ability to take advantage of her 2 break points in the first
The third quarterfinals match and the first of the day
of game of the second set, with Serena serving aces at
for the Women’s side featured Belgian Yanina Wickmay-
deuce to take the game, Williams got her second break
er beating Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine in two sets,
to go up 4-2 when Pennetta double faulted at 30-40. In
joining Belgian Kim Clijsters in the semi-finals. The first
a long point from the baseline indicative of the entire
set saw both players holding their serve until Wickmay-
match, Williams hit a forehand pass down the line to
er broke in the 5th game, while Wickmayer was serving
wrap it up. She then did a two-handed fist-pump before
for the set at 5-4, despite saving two break points in the
going to the net to congratulate Pennetta on a hard-
10th game, Bondarenko broke at her third opportunity,
fought contest. This set up a meeting in the semifinals
but was easily broken back at the next game, with Wick-
with Clijsters, who took out Serena’s sister Venus in the
mayer closing the set 7-5. The second set saw Wickmay-
fourth round.
er breaking in the first game, and Bondarenko taking the
Seeded players out
next four games, and Wickmayer winning the next five
• Men’s Singles: Juan Carlos Ferrero, Gaël games to claim the second set 6-4 and the match. This
Monfils, Andy Murray, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga set up a semifinal match with Caroline Wozniacki from
• Women’s Singles: Li Na, Flavia Pennetta Denmark, who defeated the Cinderella-story American
seventeen-year-old Melanie Oudin in two sets 6-2 6-2.
• Men’s Doubles: Wesley Moodie / Dick
And Caroline Wozniacki reaching her first Grand Slam
Norman, Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić Semi-finals, the match featured only 16 winners (11 of
• Women’s Doubles: Maria Kirilenko / Elena them coming from Oudin) and 63 unforced errors be-
Vesnina, Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Nadia tween them (43 of them coming from Oudin).
Petrova Seeded players out
• Mixed Doubles: Su-Wei Hsieh / Kevin • Men’s Singles: Robin Söderling, Fernando
Ullyett, Liezel Huber / Mahesh Bhupathi Verdasco
Schedule of play • Men’s Doubles: Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan,
Max Mirnyi / Andy Ram
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• Women’s Doubles: Nuria Llagostera Vives / on the Nadal serve, claimed 12 points and committed 21
unforced errors. He managed three winners in the third,
María José Martínez Sánchez, Yan Zi /
far less than the 31 combined in the first two sets.
Zheng Jie
Kim Clijsters won an entry into the women’s singles
Schedule of play
final after a dramatic ending to her semifinal against
Serena Williams. After losing the first set 4–6, Williams
Day 11 (September 10)
smashed her racquet into the ground, giving her a code
Argentinie Juan Martín del Potro defeated Croatian violation warning for racquet abuse from the chair um-
Marin Čilić in four sets and became the third of his coun- pire. In the second set, down 5–6 (15–30), Williams had
try to qualify for the semifinals (after Vilas and Nalbandi- a foot fault called on her second serve, giving Clijsters
an). The other quarterfinal match between Rafael Nadal two match points at 15–40. Williams started yelling at the
and Fernando González was suspended due to bad weath- line umpire, who reported to the chair umpire. As a re-
er and will be resumed on Friday. Rafael Nadal was lead- sult, she was penalized for another code violation, for un-
ing 7-6(4), 6-6(3-2) when play was stopped. sportsmanlike conduct, meaning a point penalty for Wil-
The Williams sisters defeated Russians Alisa Kley- liams, which meant that Clijsters was awarded the match
banova and Ekaterina Makarova in three sets and quali- 6–4 7–5 without playing the match point.[43] Williams
fied for the final. The mixed doubles final saw Americans later admitted that she was "pretty sure" she did foot
Carly Gullickson and Travis Parrott claim the title in fault.[44] After securing her thirteenth straight win at the
straight sets over Zimbabwe’s Cara Black and Indian Le- US Open, Clijsters went go on to play Danish youngster
ander Paes. Caroline Wozniacki in the final, who beat her unseeded
Seeded players out opponent Yanina Wickmayer 6–3 6–3.[45]
• Men’s Singles: Marin Čilić Seeded players out
• Women’s Doubles: Alisa Kleybanova / • Men’s Singles: Fernando González
Ekaterina Makarova • Women’s Singles: Serena Williams
• Mixed Doubles: Cara Black / Leander Paes Schedule of play
Schedule of play
Day 14 (September 13)
Day 12 (September 11) In the first match, Juan Martín del Potro defeated third-
All the matches that should have been played this day ranked Rafael Nadal easily, winning 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 and be-
were postponed due to the continued rain. came the first finalist of the men’s singles tournament.
Schedule of play Del Potro’s convincing victory, which echoed Caroline
Wozniacki’s takedown of crowd favorite Melanie Oudin
Day 13 (September 12) in the quarterfinals, set the twenty-year-old Argentine
Rafael Nadal needed 34 minutes to finish off a demoral- up for his first Grand Slam final.
ized Fernando González in their rain-interrupted quar- In the second semifinal of the women’s doubles
terfinal, advancing 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2), 6-0 to kick off action on championship Cara Black and Liezel Huber defeated Sa-
Arthur Ashe Stadium. Nadal led 7-6 and 3-2 in a second- mantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs in three sets and they
set tiebreak when play was called off late Thursday became finalist of the championship to defend which
evening. Precipitation throughout a gloomy Friday ren- they got in 2008.
dered play impossible, throwing the schedule into chaos Lukáš Dlouhý and Leander Paes won the men’s dou-
and prompting a resumption Saturday at noon. Gonzalez bles defeating Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles also
had to win the second set to have any realistic shot of in three sets.
pulling off an upset, but he made three straight forehand Del Potro’s opponent in the men’s championship
unforced errors to gift Nadal a 6-2 lead. The forehand is match was decided in a contest between world number
Gonzalez’s most potent wing. Nadal’s fourth set point – one Roger Federer and fourth-ranked Novak Djokovic,
he squandered three prior to the tiebreak – ended with who lost to Federer in the final of the 2007 U.S. Open. Fed-
a Gonzalez backhand return into the net. Gonzalez erer dispatched his opponent in straight sets, winning
coughed up two double faults in the first game of the 7-6(3), 7-5, 7-5, to round out the final two players remain-
third, including on break point. Not surprisingly, the ing from an original draw of 128 men’s professional ten-
temperamental 29-year-old responded by flinging his nis players.
racquet in disgust. After Nadal held in the ensuing game In the women’s final, unranked Kim Clijsters capped
for 2-0, at deuce, things were over. Nadal broke again, off an impressive return to professional tennis with a win
and Gonzalez needed an extensive tape job during the over ninth seed Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, winning
changeover, the lone reason the third set extended to 31 7-5, 6-3, for her second Grand Slam title.
minutes. Gonzalez, who wasted two set points in the first Seeded players out
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• Men’s Singles: Rafael Nadal, Novak
Djokovic
• Women’s Singles: Caroline Wozniacki
• Men’s Doubles: Mahesh Bhupathi / Mark
Knowles
• Women’s Doubles: Samantha Stosur /
Rennae Stubbs
Schedule of play
Day 15 (September 14)
The Williams sisters beat Cara Black and Liezel Huber in
straight sets to win the women’s doubles championship,
6-2 6-2.
Juan Martín del Potro defeated Roger Federer in five
sets. In so doing he became the third Argentine to win
the US Open title, and the first South American to win a
men’s Grand Slam event on a hard court.
There was some controversy during the presentation
ceremony when the Master of Ceremonies initially re-
fused to allow del Potro the time to speak in Spanish as
he was under pressure from his American television net-
work, CBS, to get the ceremony over with so that it could
return to its regularly scheduled programming.[48]
Seeded players out
• Men’s Singles: Roger Federer Kim Clijsters won her second US Open title, which goes with
• Women’s Doubles: Cara Black / Liezel her 2005 triumph, and won as a wildcard in the 2009 US Open.
Huber
Schedule of play
Men’s Singles
Main article: 2009 US Open – Men’s Singles
Seniors
Juan Martín del Potro def. Roger Federer, 3–6,
7–6(5), 4–6, 7–6(4), 6–2
• Del Potro won his 3rd title of the year, 7th overall,
and 1st career Grand Slam.
Women’s Singles
Main article: 2009 US Open – Women’s Singles
Kim Clijsters def. Caroline Wozniacki, 7–5, 6–3
• Clijsters won for the first time this year and 35th
overall. It was her 2nd career Grand Slam, having
previously won the 2005 US Open.
Men’s Doubles
Main article: 2009 US Open – Men’s Doubles
Lukáš Dlouhý / Leander Paes def. Mahesh
Bhupathi / Mark Knowles, 3–6, 6–3, 6–2
• This was the pair of Dlouhý and Paes first US Open
Men’s Doubles title together, which this is the
second slam doubles title they won this year along
Juan Martín del Potro won his first slam title of his career at with the French title.
the 2009 US Open.
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Women’s Doubles Stephane Houdet / Stefan Olsson def.
Main article: 2009 US Open – Women’s Doubles Maikel Scheffers / Ronald Vink, 6–4, 4–6, 6–4
Serena Williams / Venus Williams def. Cara
Black / Liezel Huber, 6–2, 6–2 Wheelchair Women’s Doubles
• This was the Williams’ Sisters second US Open Main article: 2009 US Open - Wheelchair Women’s Dou-
Women’s Doubles title, and was the third doubles bles
slam title they won this year along with the Korie Homan / Esther Vergeer def. Daniela
Australian Open and Wimbledon.
DiToro / Florence Gravellier, 6–2, 6–2
Mixed Doubles
Wheelchair Quad Singles
Main article: 2009 US Open – Mixed Doubles
Main article: 2009 US Open - Wheelchair Quad Singles
Carly Gullickson / Travis Parrott def. Cara
Peter Norfolk def. David Wagner, 6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Black / Leander Paes, 6–2, 6–4.
• This was the first ever slam title for the pair of Wheelchair Quad Doubles
Gullickson and Parrott.
Main article: 2009 US Open - Wheelchair Quad Doubles
Nick Taylor / David Wagner def. Johan An-
Juniors dersson / Peter Norfolk, 6–1, 6–7(5), 6–3
Boys’ Singles
Main article: 2009 US Open – Boys’ Singles
Seeds
Withdrawals: David Nalbandian,[52] Dominika
[50][51]
Bernard Tomic def. Chase Buchanan, 6–1, 6–3.
Cibulková,[53] Mardy Fish[54]
Girls’ Singles
Main article: 2009 US Open – Girls’ Singles
Men’s Singles Women’s Singles
Heather Watson def. Yana Buchina, 6–4, 6–1. 1. Roger Federer 1. Dinara Safina
(Final, lost to Juan Martín (Third Round, lost to
Boys’ Doubles del Potro) Petra Kvitová)
2. Andy Murray 2. Serena Williams
Main article: 2009 US Open – Boys’ Doubles
(Fourth Round, lost to (Semifinals, lost to Kim
Marton Fucsovics / Hsieh Cheng-peng def. Clijsters)
Marin Čilić)
Julien Obry / Adrien Puget, 7–6(5), 5–7, [10–1] 3. Venus Williams
3. Rafael Nadal
(Fourth Round, lost to
(Semifinals, lost to Juan
Girls’ Doubles Kim Clijsters)
Martín del Potro)
Main article: 2009 US Open – Girls’ Doubles 4. Elena Dementieva
4. Novak Djoković
Valeria Solovieva / Maryna Zanevska def. (Second Round, lost to
(Semifinals, lost to Roger
Elena Bogdan / Noppawan Lertcheewakarn, 1–6, 6–3 Melanie Oudin)
Federer)
[10–7] 5. Andy Roddick 5. Jelena Janković
(Third Round, lost to John (Second Round, lost to
Yaroslava Shvedova)
Wheelchair Isner)
6. Svetlana
6. Juan Martín del
Potro (Champion) Kuznetsova (Fourth
Wheelchair Men’s Singles
Round, lost to Caroline
Main article: 2009 US Open - Wheelchair Men’s Singles 7. Jo-Wilfried
Wozniacki)
Tsonga (Fourth Round,
Shingo Kunieda def. Maikel Scheffers, 6–0, 6–0 7. Vera Zvonareva
lost to Fernando
González) (Fourth Round, lost to
Wheelchair Women’s Singles Flavia Pennetta)
8. Nikolay
Main article: 2009 US Open - Wheelchair Women’s Singles 8. Victoria Azarenka
Davydenko (Fourth
Esther Vergeer def. Korie Homan, 6–0, 6–0 (Third Round, lost to
Round, retired – hip
Francesca Schiavone)
injury – against Robin
Wheelchair Men’s Doubles Söderling) 9. Caroline
Main article: 2009 US Open - Wheelchair Men’s Doubles Wozniacki (Final, lost to
Kim Clijsters)
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9. Gilles Simon 10. Flavia Pennetta 25. Mardy Fish 26. Francesca
(Third Round, retired – (Quarterfinals, lost to (Withdrew due to rib Schiavone (Fourth
knee injury – against Serena Williams) injury) Round, lost to Na Li)
Juan Carlos Ferrero) 11. Ana Ivanović (First 26. Paul-Henri 27. Alisa Kleybanova
10. Fernando Round, lost to Kateryna Mathieu (First Round, (First Round, lost to Petra
Verdasco (Quarterfinals, Bondarenko) lost to Mikhail Youzhny) Kvitová)
lost to Novak Djoković) 12. Agnieszka 27. Ivo Karlović (First
28. Sybille Bammer
Radwańska (Second Round, lost to Iván
11. Fernando (First Round, lost to
Round, lost to Maria Navarro)
González (Quarterfinals, María José Martínez
lost to Rafael Nadal) Kirilenko) 28. Victor Hănescu Sánchez)
12. Robin Söderling 13. Nadia Petrova (First Round, lost to John
29. Maria Sharapova
(Quarterfinals, lost to (Fourth Round, lost to Isner)
(Third Round, lost to
Roger Federer) Melanie Oudin) 29. Igor Andreev Melanie Oudin)
13. Gaël Monfils 14. Marion Bartoli (First Round, lost to Jesse
30. Alyona
(Fourth Round, lost to (Second Round, lost to Witten)
Bondarenko (Second
Rafael Nadal) Kim Clijsters) 30. Viktor Troicki Round, lost to Gisela
14. Tommy Robredo 15. Samantha Stosur (Second Round, lost to Dulko)
(Fourth Round, lost to (Second Round, lost to Julien Benneteau)
31. Elena Vesnina
Roger Federer) Vania King) 31. Lleyton Hewitt
(Third Round, lost to
(Third Round, lost to
15. Radek Štěpánek 16. Virginie Razzano Vera Zvonareva)
(First Round, lost to Roger Federer)
(Fourth Round, lost to 32. Ágnes Szávay
Novak Djoković) Yanina Wickmayer) 32. Nicolás Almagro (First Round, lost to
16. Marin Čilić 17. Amélie Mauresmo (Third Round, lost to Shahar Pe’er)
(Quarterfinals, lost to (Second Round, lost to Rafael Nadal)
Juan Martín del Potro) Aleksandra Wozniak)
17. Tomáš Berdych 18. Li Na Wildcard entries
(Third Round, lost to (Quarterfinals, lost to
Below are the lists of the wildcard awardees entering in
Fernando González) Kim Clijsters)
the main draws and in the qualifying draws.[55][56]
18. David Ferrer 19. Patty Schnyder
(Second Round, lost to (Second Round, lost to Men’s Singles Women’s Singles
José Acasuso) Sara Errani) Wildcard entries Wildcard entries
19. Stanislas 20. Anabel Medina 1. Devin Britton 1. Gail Brodsky
Wawrinka (First Round, Garrigues (Second
2. Chase Buchanan 2. Mallory Cecil
lost to Nicolás Lapentti) Round, lost to Kirsten
3. Taylor Dent 3. Kim Clijsters
20. Tommy Haas Flipkens)
4. Brendan Evans (Champion)
(Third Round, lost to 21. Zheng Jie (Third 5. Chris Guccione 4. Alexa Glatch
Fernando Verdasco) Round, lost to Nadia 6. Jesse Levine 5. Vania King
21. James Blake (Third Petrova)
Round, lost to Tommy 7. Michaël Llodra 6. Christina McHale
22. Daniela
Robredo) 8. Ryan Sweeting 7. Kristina
Hantuchová (Fourth
22. Sam Querrey Mladenovic
Round, lost to Serena
(Third Round, lost to 8. Olivia Rogowska
Williams)
Robin Söderling) 23. Sabine Lisicki
23. Philipp (Second Round, lost to
Qualifying Men’s Qualifying
Kohlschreiber (Third Anastasia Rodionova) Singles Wildcard Women’s Singles
Round, lost to Radek
24. Sorana Cîrstea entries Wildcard entries
Štěpánek)
(Third Round, lost to 1. Jordan Cox 1. Kristie Ahn
24. Juan Carlos Caroline Wozniacki) 2. Alexander 2. Lauren Embree
Ferrero (Fourth Round,
25. Kaia Kanepi (First Domijan 3. Irina Falconi
lost to Juan Martín del
Round, lost to Chang Kai- 3. Ryan Harrison 4. Nicole Gibbs
Potro)
Chen) 4. Ryan Lipman 5. Asia Muhammad
5. Michael McClune 6. Alison Riske
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Category Amount
Total prize money $21,664,000
Men’s Singles Winner $1,600,000
Men’s Singles Runner-up $800,000
Women’s Singles Winner $1,600,000
Women’s Singles Runner-up $800,000
Men’s Doubles Winners $420,000
Men’s Doubles Runners-up $210,000
Women’s Doubles Winners $420,000
Women’s Doubles Runners-up $210,000
Mixed Doubles Winners $150,000
Mixed Doubles Runners-up $70,000
6. Tennys Sandgren 7. Laura Robson
7. Tim Smyczek 8. Sloane Stephens Men’s Singles Women’s Singles
8. Blake Strode 9. Coco Vandeweghe Main article: 2009 US Open Main article: 2009 US Open
9. Michael Venus - Men’s Singles Qualifying - Women’s Singles Qualify-
1. Carsten Ball ing
Men’s Doubles Women’s Doubles 2. Thomaz Bellucci 1. Monique
Adamczak
Wildcard entries Wildcard entries 3. Michael Berrer
4. Juan Pablo 2. Chang Kai-Chen
1. Robby Ginepri / 1. Christina McHale
Scoville Jenkins / Asia Muhammad Brzezicki 3. Marta
Domachowska
2. David Martin / 2. Alicia Molik / 5. Marco Chiudinelli
Meghann Shaughnessy 4. Carly Gullickson
Donald Young 6. Somdev
3. Ryan Harrison / 3. Lauren Albanese / 5. Eva Hrdinová
Devvarman
Kaes Van’t Hof Angela Haynes 6. Angelique Kerber
7. Alejandro Falla
4. Daniel Nguyen / 4. Kristie Ahn / 7. Mariya Koryttseva
Courtney Dolehide 8. Marsel İlhan
J. T. Sundling 8. Vesna Manasieva
5. Wayne Odesnik / 5. Alexa Glatch / 9. Dieter Kindlmann
9. Petra Martić
Michael Shabaz Carly Gullickson 10. Giovanni Lapentti
10. Yvonne
6. Jesse Levine / 6. Asha Rolle / 11. Josselin Ouanna Meusburger
Ryan Sweeting Riza Zalameda 12. Peter Polansky 11. Shenay Perry
7. Brendan Evans / 7. Sloane Stephens / 13. Jesse Witten
12. Camille Pin
Alex Kuznetsov Mashona 14. Michael Yani 13. Anastasia
Washington 15. Donald Young Rodionova
16. Horacio Zeballos 14. Yurika Sema
Mixed Doubles Wildcard entries
15. Valérie Tétreault
1. Jill Craybas / Eric Butorac
16. Barbora
2. Mallory Cecil / Devin Britton
Záhlavová-Strýcová
3. Shenay Perry / Scoville Jenkins
The following players received lucky loser spots in the
4. Carly Gullickson / Travis Parrott
Men’s Draw:
5. Melanie Oudin / Rajeev Ram
1. Peter Luczak
6. Angela Haynes / Travis Rettenmaier
2. Rui Machado
7. Abigail Spears / Robert Kendrick
Qualifiers Prize money
[57]
Below are the lists of the qualifiers entering the main
draw.
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Country Broadcasters
United States CBS
ESPN2
Tennis Channel
Canada TSN
RDS
TSN2
Brazil ESPN Brasil
SporTV
United Kingdom Sky Sports 2
Sky Sports Xtra
Eurosport
Switzerland SF zwei
Eurosport
France Canal +
Eurosport
Germany Eurosport
Denmark Eurosport 2
Finland
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
Serbia
Italy
Portugal RTP
RTP 2
Eurosport
Eurosport 2
Belgium VRT
Spain Digital plus
Antena 3
India Ten Sports
Pakistan
Japan WOWOW
China CCTV-5
Thailand TrueVisions
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