US OPEN: Day 3

Sharapova, and Mauresmo both cruised through their second round matches. Clijsters had a very streaky match against Fabiola Zaluaga, winning the first 4 and last 9 games in a row but losing 5 consecutive games in between. The conditions were insanely windy.
Black Tennis Report. Both Serena and Venus got through their second round matches. Serena looked improved, winning 6-2, 6-2 against Catalina Castano. Tellingly, she had an equal number of winners and errors: 25. Those are good numbers for her. Venus had a tougher opponent in Maria Kirilenko but still dispatched her 6-1, 6-3. She was hitting amazing winners from all over the court, regardless of the difficult conditions. I predict they will meet in the fourth round, with Venus winning a sloppy match in three sets.

19 year old Scoville Jenkins from Atlanta (pictured above) played an admirable match against World #2 Rafael Nadal, losing in three tough sets 7-5, 6-4, 6-4. He showed vast improvement from his beatdown last year in the first round against Andy Roddick, where he looked like a deer in the headlights of the Arthur Ashe Stadium. This year he was in the tournament longer than Andy!

Shenay Perry won a tough first set against Marion Bartoli, but then seemed to run out of gas, winning only one more game. The final score was 4-6, 6-1, 6-0. James Blake plays Thursday against Igor Andreeb of Russia.