Murray keen to win another grand slam before turning 30

The 35-year-old aggravated a knee injury in that defeat. He has had a series of injuries, surgeries and recoveries.

Bellis became the darling of the 2014 tournament when the then-15-year-old stunned Australian Open runner-up Dominika Cibulkova in the first round.

Still just 17, Bellis is ranked 158th in the world. He ended that drought at the tournament.

Swiss maestro Roger Federer will be a notable absentee at the competition having been ruled out with injury.

She dominated women’s tennis in the late 1980s and 1990s, when she won 107 tournaments and topped the rankings for a record 377 weeks. He started playing again from February this year, and not much was expected from the Argentine, particularly after he pulled out of the French Open in May-June. But the results since have been quite dramatic for him.

“I think I just am more relaxed, for sure”. Del Potro lost in the next round to France’s Lucas Pouille. The 6ft, 6 inches player beat world No.1 Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the first round-the lowest-ranked player to beat Djokovic in over five years. This was an improvement over London 2012, where he won a bronze after beating, yes, Djokovic.

Djokovic, Murray and Nadal are among the top favorites to win this year’s US Open, but after an up and down campaign this season, anyone could snag the spotlight from three of the biggest stars once the competition begins in NY.

At the age of nine, the Rock Island, Illinois native moved to Florida with her family to train at the academy run by 18-time grand slam victor Chris Evert and her brother John, who became her coach.

The world No 9 is yet to make it past the fourth round at the US Open and has been eliminated at that stage in all three majors this year.

Murray, who is coming off a Gold Medal finish at the Olympic Games, also had a fair share of success this season, which could be key for his stint at the US Open. It was the best match and the best day of my life. In Rio, for example, he fired 29 forehand winners against Djokovic, one of the world’s fittest athletes.

Tears flowing down his face as he walked off the court, Djokovic soon after withdrew from the Western & Southern Open, citing a left wrist injury. “It was some other things that I was going through privately”.

Besides being one of the most feared players on the circuit, Del Potro is also one of its most likeable. After the Olympics, the “Tower of Tandil” got a raucous welcome back in Argentina. At the end of their first-round match in Rio, a tearful Djokovic held Del Potro in a warm embrace for a long time-a sign of their deep mutual respect and admiration.

“When all these people say these great things are going to happen in the future, it’s easy to think you’ve already made it”, he told the Observer.”It’s easy to get a big head and think because they’re saying it that it’s going to be true”.

When he first came back, he recalled, “you try to find movements to avoid the pain”.

Janowicz has been ranked as high as 14th but has struggled in recent years and missed much of this season because of injuries. I experienced it for the first time in my career, ‘ added the Serb, who left the court there in tears and was said to have truncated his practice session on Friday. I know I have a lot of points to defend for my ranking, but I don’t want to think about this. For me, the crowd is just fantastic. I love that. It gives me more motivation.