NEW YORK -- A look at Thursday's play at the $38.3 million U.S. Open tennis championships:
WEATHER Mostly sunny, breezy and cooler. High of 81.
ATTENDANCE N/A.
MEN'S SEEDED WINNERS Second Round: No. 1 Novak Djokovic, No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, No. 10 Kei Nishikori, No. 13 John Isner, No. 22 Philipp Kohlschreiber and No. 23 Leonardo Mayer.
MEN'S SEEDED LOSERS No. 28 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.
WOMEN'S SEEDED WINNERS Second Round: No. 1 Serena Williams, No. 3 Petra Kvitova, No. 11 Flavia Pennetta, No. 15 Carla Suarez Navarro, No. 16 Victoria Azarenka, No. 17 Ekaterina Makarova, No. 29 Casey Dellacqua and No. 30 Barbora Zahlavova Strycova.
WOMEN'S SEEDED LOSERS No. 8 Ana Ivanovic, No. 23 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, No. 24 Sam Stosur and No. 27 Madison Keys.
TOP PLAYERS ON COURT TODAY Men, Second Round: No. 2 Roger Federer vs. Sam Groth, No. 4 David Ferrer vs. Bernard Tomic, No. 6 Tomas Berdych vs. Martin Klizan, No. 7 Grigor Dimitrov vs. Dudi Sela. Women, Third Round: No. 2 Simona Halep vs. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, No. 5 Maria Sharapova vs. No. 26 Sabine Lisicki, No. 6 Angelique Kerber vs. Belinda Bencic, No. 13 Sara Errani vs. No. 19 Venus Williams.
STAT OF THE DAY 24 of 24 -- Points won at net by Victoria Azarenka in her victory over Christina McHale.
QUOTE OF THE DAY "I wanted to get my job done as quick as possible. I don't feel like I need to play long matches to get into the groove." -- Novak Djokovic, who needed less than 90 minutes to beat Paul-Henri Mathieu and advance to the third round.
TODAY ON TV (all times Central) Tennis Channel, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; ESPN, Noon-5 p.m.; ESPN2, 5-10 p.m.
Sports on 08/29/2014