On the Baseline Tennis News

A category four hurricane is climbing up the east coast of the U.S. and is scheduled to arrive in the New York City area on Friday, September 3. Rain and strong gusting winds produced by Hurricane Earl could likely halt US Open play on Friday, and potentially Saturday.

What made Kim Clijsters take time out of training for the US Open to throw out the first pitch at the NY Mets baseball game?

Former champions Maria Sharapova and Svetlana Kuznetsova kick off their 2010 US Open title pursuits on Tuesday at the US Open.

In an unprecedented move, the USTA announced Monday that fans in the United States will be able to watch every match from the US Open’s main courts live on the internet—for free.

American hopeful Melanie Oudin has been given the honor of opening play on Monday at the 2010 US Open.

One hundred and twenty-eight women will step onto the blue courts at Flushing Meadows over the next fortnight, each with a dream of winning the year’s last major title. Join On the Baseline for a look at the 2010 US Open draw and leave your prediction for the women’s champion!

Who will make it through qualifying to the main draw at the U.S. Open? Whoever emerges will have gone through quality players to do so.

The US Open kicks off in just four days. With a Serena-less Slam, this year’s US Open is proving to be the most wide-open Grand Slam in years. Tell us your opinion and who you think will win the 2010 women’s singles title!

The 2010 US Open will be aired live in the United States on three television networks, ESPN2, Tennis Channel, and CBS Sports. Don’t miss any of the action straight from Flushing Meadows, New York!

American tennis player Melanie Oudin will step onto the U.S. Open court in her one-of-a-kind adidas Barricade shoes she personally designed through miadidas.com, adidas’ online shoe customization service.

Tennis fans in the United States are in for a special treat on Thursday as the tennis world gets ready for the season’s final Grand Slam, the US Open in Flushing Meadows, New York.

The USTA announced on Tuesday that Caroline Wozniacki and Kim Clijsters – who met in the women’s singles final at the 2009 US Open – have been named the top seeds in women’s singles at the 2010 US Open.

Caroline Wozniacki, Samantha Stosur, Francesca Schiavone and Elena Dementieva are the top four seeds this week at New Haven.

Thanks to Twitter, fans have been given a 24-hour, all-access pass to their favorite personalities in tennis. So just what have we learned this past week from the 140-character missives that have been dispatched across the Twitter airwaves?

Reigning world number one Serena Williams has withdrawn from the 2010 tennis season’s final Grand Slam of the year, the US Open.