Top seed and world number one Ana Ivanovic of Serbia was shocked in the second round of the US Open falling to 188th-ranked Julie Coin of France 6-3 4-6 6-3.

Ivanovic was broken two times in the opening set, and although she played more steadily in the second and managed to stay in the match,  she couldn’t recover from getting 4-2 down in the decider and left the court with her head bowed.  You can’t expect anything else after 34 unforced errors.

Ivanovic’s first-round victory over Vera Dushevina wasn’t smooth, but I didn’t expect her to exit US Open so early. Still, I’m not too surprised.  Ivanovic had a thumb injury which forced her out of the Olympics and she didn’t enter the US Open in full form. Pressure was also a factor, I suppose, since she’s number one and top seed.

The 25-year-old Coin has now already won five matches at the US Open (she had to qualify for the event) and in the first round she beat world number 40 Casey Dellacqua. It’s worth mentioning that prior to this US Open Coin had never won a singles match in a Grand Slam.

In the third round Coin will face compatriot Amelie Mauresmo, seeded 32nd. (source: The New York Times, photo: Getty Images)

Seventh seed Venus Williams didn’t need to work much to get past Rossana De Los Rios of Paraguay and move into the third round of the US Open, the tournament she won in 2000 and 2001.

The five-time Wimbledon champion defeated her 113-ranked opponent in 59 minutes. Williams won 6-0 6-3 despite making 17 unforced errors and wasting four match points on her serve at 5-3 up before finally beating De Los Rios on the fifth.

Venus Williams, who has a song dedicated to her, will next play seed No.27 Alona Bondarenko of Ukraine. (source: Reuters, photo: Getty Images)

Russian sixth seed Dinara Safina advanced to the third round of the US Open with a 6-4 6-3 victory over Roberta Vinci of Italy.

Roland Garros finalist Safina, who has won three WTA titles this season as well as silver medal at the Olympics, established a 3-0 lead in the first set and 3-1 in the second, but her inconsistency enabled world No.164 Vinci to break back and threaten a fightback.

Still, hard-hitting Safina extended her win-loss record since Wimbledon to 17-0 and will play Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky, ranked 60th, in round three. (source: Reuters, photo: Getty Images)

Venus Williams got a song dedicated to her. Cool! Wyclef Jean recorded a track entitled Venus (I’m Ready) as a tribute to Williams' doubles gold medal at Beijing Olympics. The track will serve as theme music for Venus throughout her appearance at the US Open. (via Black Tennis Pro's)

We can all feel the absence of Maria Sharapova at the US Open, it’s a huge loss for the tournament, and now I'm reading she’s likely to miss the rest of the season because of her shoulder injury.

The Russian has two tears in her right shoulder and doctor ordered her not to hit a tennis ball for four weeks.

The world number five is expected to spend most of the fall rehabilitating in Arizona.

It's disappointing news but I’m not worried about Masha, she’ll always get the best out of a bad situation. Plus, her accommodation in Arizona is more than comfortable – let the pictures do the talking. (source: On the Baseline)

Second seed Jelena Jankovic earned her place in the third round of the US Open but not before being pushed all the way by Sweden’s Sofia Arvidsson.

Jankovic comfortably won the first set. In the second, despite serving for the set she was forced into a tie-breaker in which 63rd-ranked Arvidsson overcame Jankovic's 3-0 lead and took the match to the third set. In the decider, Arvidsson trailed 3-0 but broke back to level at 4-4, before the exhausted world No.2 made a final push to win 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 6-4.

Jankovic will next face Wimbledon semifinalist Jie Zheng who defeated Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-1 6-4.

BTW: Despite playing a marathon match against Arvidsson, Jankovic had time to worry about other things, guess what – fashion! "I was concerned I was going to get my dress dirty. That was my biggest concern," said JJ. (source: BBC)

Top seed Ana Ivanovic scored an unconvincing victory over Vera Dushevina of Russia in the first round of the US Open.

The Serb looked as if on a way to an easy and quick victory when leading 6-1 4-2 and 0-30 on the Dushevina serve, but in the end Ivanovic earned her spot in the second round after surviving a scare and playing three sets to eventually win 6-1 4-6 6-4.

BTW: Ivanovic is not wearing the dress we thought she would, so luckily she differs from Caroline Wozniacki (not much, frankly, but still…). Anyway, it's so funny, she's wearing the same outfit to the one she replaced her Wimbledon dress with (phew, in different color though!) — and remember that her Wimbledon dress was the white version of the dress she was supposed to wear at the US Open. Almost embarrassing! (photo: Getty Images)

Not only is Ana Ivanovic’s adidas outfit nothing special considering she’s number one in the world, not only is it the same outfit she wore at Wimbledon and abandoned it after one day, but at the US Open Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki worked it before Ivanovic.

Ok, the shoes are unique, the Barricade V Summer Slams with Ivanovic's face, but there is something bizarre, Pilot Pen champion Wozniacki wore those same shoes in her first-round match at the US Open when she defeated Asha Rolle 6-2 6-1. Hahaha, what a mess!

Ivanovic starts her US Open campaign on Tuesday at 11am local time, and then we'll finally see whether she'll wear something else, which is more than welcome. (via Forty Deuce)

Three seeds fell on the first day of the 2008 US Open: Russians Anna Chakvetadze and Maria Kirilenko, and Shahar Peer of Israel.

Chakvetadze, seeded tenth, suffered her earliest Grand Slam defeat in more than three years falling 1-6 6-2 6-3 to compatriot Ekaterina Makarova, ranked 56th in the world. Chakvetadze took the opening set in 25 minutes and looked to be on a good way to victory, but in the end she became a first-round loser.

No.22 seed Kirilenko lost to Tamira Paszek of Austria 6-3 3-6 6-4 and this year’s result is her worst at the US Open, before she reached second or third round.

Peer, seed No.24, got eliminated by China’s Li Na 2-6 6-0 6-1 despite superb play in the opening set. "In the first set I felt like I was playing against a wall," said Li after her great turnaround. (photos: Getty Images)

World number three Serena Williams will be wearing this dark red Nike dress at the US Open, the Grand Slam she won two times, in 1999 and 2002.

The outfit called Serena Day Dress looks nice, but is too uninventive for a player on a way to Grand Slam number nine. However, talking about too ordinary dresses, Ana Ivanovic is the leader.

Serena Williams will start her US Open campaign with a first-round match against world number 46 Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine. (via Down the Line)