Fifth seed Ana Ivanovic of Serbia reached the fourth round of the US Open with a quick 6-1 6-3 victory over Russian Vera Dushevina, ranked 58th in the world. Frankly speaking, the match was everything but thrilling and unpredictable.

As you probably already know a lot about Ivanovic’s tennis results and titles, I won't mention them now, but I will remind you that Dushevina played one final this year. At the Nordic Light Open in Stockholm she lost to Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland.

Ana's next opponent at the US Open will be known in a few hours, and it will be either seed No.12 Venus Williams, or seed No.21 Alona Bondarenko.

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Thirteenth-seeded Czech Nicole Vaidisova beat Italian Flavia Pennetta 6-2 7-6 (7-0) in the round two of the US Open.

I watched only the last part of the match, but I can say that Pennetta had her chances since her opponent was emotionally fragile at moments. What happened was that Vaidisova simply wasn’t able to finish the match when leading 6-5 in the second set. She wasted five match points and let Pennetta make a break. It left the Czech so frustrated and angry that she broke her racket. Pennetta evened the result to 6-6 in the second set, but was demolished in the tie-break by failing to score even one point. That was disappointing. I was hoping for the third set.

After all, the favorite was victorious and she will next play No.18 seed Shahar Peer of Israel. This should be a match worth watching.

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American Ahsha Rolle, ranked 109th in the world, became famous for causing the first major upset at the US Open 2007 by beating No.17 seed Tatiana Golovin in the first round. However, the 22-year-old Rolle hasn’t stopped there. Wednesday night, she advanced to the third round with the victory over 57th-ranked Karin Knapp of Italy 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Since success at Grand Slams is not something Ahsha is accustomed to, she had to stop for a moment to figure out how to celebrate. A simple jump in the air? A fall to the court? Hahaha, not an easy decision. Read more »

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Ninth seed Daniela Hantuchova was upset 6-4 3-6 6-1 by Ukrainian Julia Vakulenko, another shock in the first round of the US Open.

The Slovak made 32 unforced errors as she suffered her earliest exit at Flushing Meadows since she lost on her debut in 2001.

"I felt fine here," Hantuchova said. "I felt very good. Today was just one of those things that is hard to understand." Read more »

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Seed No.13 Nicole Vaidisova had an amusing problem with the challenge system in her first round match against Russian Alla Kudryavtseva — the ball was clearly in, but it was called out! Uh, even challenges need to be challenged.

Additional info: Vaidisova defeated Kudryavtseva 6-1 6-2, and her opponent in the second round will be Flavia Pennetta of Italy. (via Tennis Videos)

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