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Serena Williams has been seeded 28th for the U.S. Open, which is sticking with its policy of following the rankings instead of taking into account players' past performances....

Defending champion Kim Clijsters withdraws from the US Open with a stomach muscle injury. "Unfortunately, I will not be able to defend my US Open title this year," the Belgian, a three-time winner at Flushing Meadows, said in a statement.

Rory McIlroy enjoyed a triumphant march Sunday to his first major title as a two-under-par 69 gave him a eight-shot victory in the U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in Maryland.

Play has started in the final round of the U.S. Open, and it will take something monumental to prevent Rory McIlroy from winning the trophy....

Webb Simpson made five birdies over his first 10 holes of the third round of the U.S. Open and he was still 10 shots behind Rory McIlroy.

When Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he would not compete in next week’s U.S. Open, a whole lot of casual interest in the year’s second major went out the window. Or, considering the heat in the area, in the window. That deflated interest was first expressed all over the Internet – Twitter, blogs and all of that jazz were bombarded with comments from Internet Tough Guys saying that the Open didn’t mean much to them without Woods.

Rafael Nadal won his first U.S. Open championship to become the seventh man in history to complete a career Grand Slam when he waited out a nearly two-hour rain delay and withstood a barrage of corner-kissing winners from Novak Djokovic of Serbia at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday night.

Kim Clijsters of Belgium, the defending champion, beat Vera Zvonareva of Russia in the final, 6-2, 6-1.

So much for Rafa vs. Roger in the U.S. Open final.

The Open House twosome take a stab at defining great tennis, which, for New York, demands a Federer-Nadal final.