His 11 Grand Slam titles in the Open era trails only Federer and Pete Sampras (Borg also has 11).
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Nonetheless, she was the first Pole to contest a grand slam final since the Open Era began in 1968 -- even if her defeat meant she missed out on a long-held dream.
Serena Williams, playing her first tournament since winning the year's opening Grand Slam, the Australian Open in late January, had her easiest win of the week as she dispatched Russia's Maria Kirilenko 6-1 6-4.
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Ferrero, who climbed to the top of the world rankings in 2003 after winning his only Grand Slam, the French Open, will be seeking to emulate his effort of making the quarter-final stage two years ago.
Earlier, Judy Murray, the tennis coach and mother of US Open grand slam winner Andy Murray, called for facilities to be accessible and affordable saying there was an "enormous opportunity" on the back of the Olympics and the Commonwealth games coming up to "capture the imagination of the Scottish public".
He became the youngest player ever to complete the career Grand Slam with his 2010 US Open win.
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She followed that up by reaching her first Grand Slam semifinal at the Australian Open this January, beating Williams to get there.
The good news is the player is considered a true contender for one of the four Grand Slam events: the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.
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Nadal, the six-time grand slam winner and reigning Australian Open champion, has been coming off a two-month lay-off due to knee tendinitis, a break that kept him from defending his 2008 Wimbledon crown.
After tournament victories in Cincinnati, Madrid and St Petersburg, and with a first Grand Slam final at the US Open in between, Murray had finally begun to show signs of a dip in form this week.
Djokovic reached a career high ranking of number two in the world earlier this year, Jankovic went one better and briefly topped the women's rankings in 2008 while Ivanovic claimed grand slam glory at the French Open in the same year.
However, Henin sustained an injury to her left leg and later confirmed on her Web site that she will miss next week's Sydney Invitational, where she faced a possible second-round clash with Serena Williams, in order to recover in time for the decade's first Grand Slam event, the Australian Open.
Nadal, who had been sidelined for seven months, has now lost six of his 44 clay finals -- three of them to Djokovic, who will be hoping to stop the 11-time grand slam champion defending his French Open title when the season's second major starts at the end of next month.
The world No. 2 had to work hard for victory against Errani, who she defeated in last year's French Open to achieve her career grand slam, having previously won Wimbledon (2004), the U.S. Open (2006) and the Australian Open (2008).
The punishments handed down by the International Tennis Federation's Grand Slam committee could result in a U.S. Open suspension if Williams commits another major violation in any Grand Slam event in 2010 or 2011.
The 28-year-old American captured two grand slam titles, at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, to improve her collection to 11 majors.
Henin went out to Argentina's Gisela Dulko in her first tournament since reaching the final of the Australian Open in her grand slam comeback.
Four-time grand slam champion Sharapova, an Australian Open winner in 2008, could face U.S. former world No. 1 Venus Williams in the third round.
Clijsters was also beaten in four Grand Slam finals including the 2004 Australian Open to compatriot and rival Justine Henin, who has also since retired.
The former world number one is returning to competitive tennis after an 18-month retirement and targeting the opening grand slam of 2010 at the Australian Open.
Federer, who won the latest of his record 16 Grand Slam singles titles at the Australian Open in January, had only lost once to Berdych in nine previous meetings.
Under Maclagan's guidance, the world number four reached his first two Grand Slam finals at the 2008 US Open and 2010 Australian Open, losing on both occasions to Roger Federer.
Right across the four Grand Slam events -- the Australian Open, U.S. Open, Wimbledon and French Open -- comparative prize pools have been affected by volatile exchange rates, largely caused by the recession.
The youngest-ever player to win a grand slam when she took the Australian Open title at 16 years and three months, she made it a hat-trick of wins Down Under as she topped the world rankings until 2000.
Martin reached two Grand Slam finals, at the Australian Open in 1994 and the US Open in 1999, as well as a Wimbledon semi-final in 1996 when he lost a 5-1 lead in the fifth set against Mal Washington.
Murray was the last man to beat Nadal at a Grand Slam with victory in their Australian Open quarter-final in January, a match which saw the 24-year-old Spaniard forced to withdraw because of knee problems when two sets down.
Some continue to call for a shot clock, mandatory tiebreakers in fifth sets (the U.S. Open is the only Slam that does this) and playing service lets (if a serve hits the net and goes in the correct box, it counts).
The last time the 29-year-old, eyeing a fifth title in Melbourne, failed to reach the quarter-finals in a Grand Slam was at the 2004 French Open, and all went to plan with a comfortable first set, starting in blistering style with three aces.
It's tough to look ahead because he will be reflecting on this match so much and playing it through his mind, but certainly when it is time to prepare there are a lot of opportunities out there and another Grand Slam to target at the US Open.
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