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Us Open: Grand Slam
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The main court is located at the 24,000-seat Arthur Ashe Stadium, named after Arthur Ashe, the African American tennis player who won the inaugural men's final of the US Open in 1968. (The British tennis player Virginia Wade won the first woman's US Open final, five months after she turned professional.) Court Number 2 is Louis Armstrong Stadium, which stood as the main stadium until the completion of Ashe stadium. Court Number 3 is the Grandstand Stadium, which is attached to the Luis Armstrong Stadium. Sidecourts 4, 7 and 11 each have a seating capacity of well over 1,000.
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Marat Safin (31/1 US Open odds) has already won a slam this year when he beat Hewitt at the Australian Open. Perhaps much more impressive was hi semi-final round when he played to the brink of exhaustion against the Swiss Missile Roger Federer [A]nd won the grueling five set battle! However, the Australian Open hangover was rough as he lost in the round of 16 to Tommy Robredo at the French Open an in the round of 32 at Wimbledon, clay and grass surfaces respectively. At the US Open he returns to the hard courts - a surface that is well suited to his mad-Russian style of play. However, Safin looked positively anemic at Cincinnati when he lost in straight sets to Robby Ginepri in the quarterfinals. He'll need to be more consistent as the US Open.
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In 2006, the US Open became the first Grand Slam tournament to implement instant replay reviews of calls, using Hawk-Eye. Available only on the stadium courts (Ashe and Armstrong), each player is allowed two challenges per set plus one additional challenge during a tiebreak, but is not penalized with the loss of a challenge if the challenge turns out to be correct. Once a challenge is made, the official review (a 3-D computer simulation based on multiple high-speed video cameras) is shown to the players, umpires, and audience on the stadium video boards and to the television audience at the same time. The system is said to be accurate to within 5 millimeters. During the 2006 US Open, 30.5% of men's challenges and 35.85% of women's challenges were upheld.[1]
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Sampras retired from professional tennis five years ago after beating Andre Agassi to win the 2002 US Open and capture a record fourteenth singles Grand Slam title. During his career, Sampras won sixty-four top-level singles titles (including fourteen Grand Slams and eleven ATP Masters Series titles). He was ranked the World No. 1 for a record 286 weeks and was year-end No. 1 for a record six consecutive years, from 1993 through 1998. He resumed training earlier this year and since his return, remains undefeated in official tournament play and is on an eight match winning run with back-to-back title wins at Champions tournaments in Boston and in his native Greece.
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Roger Federer continued to write himself deeper in the history books, taking out Serbia's Novak Djokovic, 7-6(4), 7-6(2), 6-4 for the US Open singles title. Federer is ... the first man to reach all four Grand Slam finals in a calendar year for two years in a row.
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Henin, who is from Belgium, was ... 2003’s US Open winner. Henin played against Tsvetana Pironkova and won with a score of 6-4 and 6-0. Henin has also won six Grand Slam champions from the Australian Open.
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