Top Three Miss Cut At US Open As Four Others Share Lead
An 11-year-old golf course shaped from Wisconsin pastureland was sure to bring something different to the U.S. Open.
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An 11-year-old golf course shaped from Wisconsin pastureland was sure to bring something different to the U.S. Open.
Rickie Fowler did what he had to do to take the lead in the first round of the U.S. Open. He stayed out of trouble!
Playing in the same group in the first round of the U.S. Open, two of the world's best made more than enough mistakes to place them both in danger of missing the cut.
Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and Jason Day are a few of the top names who put family first at the start of the U.S. Open.
Stewart Hagestad's response to how he's handling the lead up to the 117th US Open unintentionally trailed off into a neatly generic answer ending in, "...and I just try and focus on the things that I can control," at which point the articulate 26-year-old immediately scoffed, acknowledging his canned gaffe, and lowered his guard.
Okay, guys, enough already. Complaining about the rough at a U.S. Open is just silly.
It was a US Open that said hello to a retractable roof, goodbye to Louis Armstrong Stadium, hello to a new women's No. 1 in Angelique Kerber and another new star in Karolina Pliskova.
Best photos from the women's and men's finals at the 2016 US Open.
Pointing to his temple after winning the biggest of points, Stan Wawrinka wore Novak Djokovic down and beat the defending champion 6-7 (1), 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 on Sunday for his first U.S. Open title and third Grand Slam trophy overall.
Mattek-Sands and Safarova, who were seeded 12th, added this championship to those from the Australian Open and French Open in 2015.
Angelique Kerber, the second seed, is the women's U.S. Open champion. She closed out tenth seed Karolina Pliskova 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in the championship match. The victory is her second in a major this year as she also won the Australian Open earlier this year.
The best photos from Friday's action at the US Open.
Facing an opponent who occasionally played as if he had somewhere better to be, Novak Djokovic reached his 21st Grand Slam final and seventh at the US Open with a bizarre 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 victory over Gael Monfils on Friday.
Karolina Pliskova, the big server from the Czech Republic, pulled off the biggest upset of this year's US Open and of her career. At the expense of Serena Williams, of all people.
Serena Williams was upset in the U.S. Open semifinals for the second year in a row, beaten 6-2, 7-6 (5) by 10th-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic on Thursday night.
The best photos from Wednesday's action at the US Open.
Sixth-seeded Kei Nishikori pulled off the improbable, ousting No. 2 seed and 2012 US Open champion Andy Murray in five sets on Wednesday.
Juan Martin del Potro's magical month ended as it began — with the big Argentine crying on the court.
Neither player budged until Williams righted herself in the third set to emerge with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Halep on Wednesday night to get back to the semifinals at Flushing Meadows.
Andy Murray dropped seven consecutive games after a let call caused by a loud noise in the arena's speaker system during a fourth-set point and lost to Kei Nishikori 1-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 in the US Open quarterfinals Wednesday.
The 24-year-old Czech lost just one point on her serve in the first set and never faced a break point.
Check out the best shots from Tuesday's action at the US Open.
Novak Djokovic moved into the U.S. Open semifinals for the 10th consecutive year when No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga stopped because of a hurt left knee.
Former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki reached her fifth U.S. Open semifinal, and first at any Grand Slam tournament in two years, by beating an injured Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia 6-0, 6-2 on Tuesday night.
Monfils had lost six consecutive major quarterfinals since reaching his only previous semifinal, 8½ years ago at the French Open.
