Day 3 of the 2010 U.S. Open will have a distinctly American feel. Andy Roddick, Melanie Oudin, Venus Williams, Sam Querrey and John Isner, who's been battling injuries since his epic at Wimbledon, are all on Wednesday's schedule. Both Andy Murray and Kim Clijsters will also be in action.
Live matches will be shown on the Tennis Channel from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., on ESPN2 from 1-11 p.m. and streaming starting at 1 on ESPN3 (all times East Coast). According to the official TV schedule, from 2-7 p.m. Tennis Channel coverage will only focus on courts 11 and/or 13. So if you're interested in the big guns, ESPN2 is your best bet.
After a steamy Day 2, here are a few matches worth checking out on a blazing hot Day 3:
11 a.m., Louis Armstrong
First round, No. 20 Sam Querrey (USA) vs. Bradley Klahn (USA)
Querrey has the most unique fan club in tennis, by far. He "counts among his weapons a giant first serve, a powerful forehand and, depending on one's perspective, the most entertaining or most obnoxious cheering section in the sport," Yahoo!'s Josh Peter recently wrote. "These loud, bare-chested Querrey devotees call themselves ‘Samurai.'" We'll see if the 6-foot-6 Californian's bros can help him make a run to the fourth round, where if everything goes as planned, he'd face Andy Murray. Querrey beat Murray in the Farmers Classic final last month.
Not before 1 p.m., Arthur Ashe
First round, No. 4 Andy Murray (GBR) vs. Lukas Lacko (SVK)
John McEnroe thinks Murray needs to be more aggressive if the latter wants to win his first Grand Slam title. According to his Twitter account, the Scot is ready for the heat: "Pretty toasty here today. Takes the edge of the ice bath."
About 3 p.m., Arthur Ashe
Second round, No. 3 Venus Williams (USA) vs. Rebecca Marino (CAN)
Our Holly Anderson liked (but didn't love) Williams' outfit the other night: "This year's first-round outfit consisted of a short black dress with spaghetti straps and pleather-y looking pleats: classy but somewhat at odds with her white shoes." I predict she breaks out a white dress soon. After all, Labor Day is approaching fast.
About 3 p.m., Louis Armstrong
Second round, Melanie Oudin (USA) vs. No. 29 Alona Bondarenko (UKR)
Me: Melanie Oudin won today.
My wife: Who's that?
Me: You know, the girl from last year with the cool shoes.
My wife: Oh yeah! She's awesome.
Those kicks are world famous. I just hope "courage" is enough for Oudin now.
About 5 p.m., Louis Armstrong
First round, Frederico Gil (POR) vs. No. 18 John Isner (USA)
Nike is now peddling a T-shirt that commemorates Isner's 70-68 victory at Wimbledon. It was a hell of a result for the big man, but how do you recover physically from that kind of punishment? Isner, at 6-9, 245, is a tennis player in a power forward's body. Imagine David Lee, who's 6-9, 250, playing an 11-hour tennis match. For an NBA player, it'd be like playing midseason back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-backs.
About 9 p.m., Arthur Ashe
Second round, No. 9 Andy Roddick (USA) vs. Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)
Roddick should cruise again, but here's a fun fact about Tipsarevic from his Wikipedia page: "He has a quotation, tattooed in Japanese, from Dostoyevsky ('Beauty will save the world', from The Idiot) on his left arm. He also has a Japanese tattoo on his right arm, which represent the first two letters of the names of his father, his mother, himself and his brother, in katakana."
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