Timeline
| 2007 US Open Timeline | |
| Day | Comments |
|---|---|
| Q1. | No play was possible due to rain. |
| Q2. | Rain again was a factor in delaying play, however some of the qualifying was possible. After a rain delay, play resumed in many matches. Main draws for Men's and Women's Singles were mostly ready aside from qualifiers' names, however spaces where qualifiers will go was indicated. |
| Q3. | The first round of qualifying was completed and second round matches began. In form Frank Dancevic came through in the men's draw; whilst French Open girl's singles champion Alizé Cornet came through in the women's. |
| Q4. | Players began qualifying for the main draw; the first on the men's side being Pablo Cuevas and the first on the women's, Renata Voráčová. Scoville Jenkins was the first American qualifier to reach the main draw. |
| Q5. | The qualification rounds concluded. Dancevic, Rainer Schüttler and Andrei Pavel qualified among others. On the women's side Cornet and Andreja Klepač came through, along with Julia Görges, who upset #6 seed Anne Kremer. |
| KD. | Kid's Day was full of singing and special events. Charities were raised and matches with both professional (for example, Andy Roddick) and non-professional tennis players (for example, Tony Hawk), were played. |
| 1. | Day 1 saw Ahsha Rolle, Feliciano López, Max Mirnyi, Alizé Cornet, John Isner and Donald Young cause upsets. Both Serena and Venus Williams advanced in straight sets. Guillermo Cañas needed four sets to beat Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo, and Fernando Verdasco survived Paul-Henri Mathieu, 1-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. Top seeds Roger Federer and Justine Henin began their campaigns with straight set victories. |
| 2. | Day 2 saw Wayne Odesnik overcoming Danai Udomchoke and Arnaud Clément beating big-serving Ivo Karlović in thrilling matches. Martina Hingis, Juan Martín del Potro, David Nalbandian and Nicole Vaidišová were some of the day's victors as the women's first round matches were completed. #9 seed Daniela Hantuchová became the highest seed to fall in the women's draw, losing to Julia Vakulenko. |
| 3. | Justine Henin, Serena and Venus Williams, Marat Safin, Carlos Moyà, Mikhail Youzhny, Tim Henman and Roger Federer advanced, while Rafael Nadal overcame severe knee pain to beat Australian wildcard Alun Jones. Other women to advance to round 3 include Jelena Janković, Ana Ivanović, Lucie Šafářová, Marion Bartoli, Dinara Safina, Elena Dementieva, and local favorite Ahsha Rolle. #7 Fernando González lost to Teymuraz Gabashvili in his opening match. |
| 4. | Day 4 saw Andy Roddick, Nikolay Davydenko, Tomáš Berdych, James Blake, Maria Sharapova, Martina Hingis and Svetlana Kuznetsova all get through their matches and enter the third round. #13 seed Richard Gasquet, however, walked-over from his second round match against Donald Young, and seeded Guillermo Cañas crashed out of the tournament. |
| 5. | Radek Štěpánek and Novak Djokovic battled in their match for nearly five hours before Djokovic walked away with the victory. Other players who were upset in the men's draw were Lleyton Hewitt, Mikhail Youzhny and Marat Safin. Rafael Nadal's opponent retired and Tommy Robredo went five sets with Mardy Fish. Ivan Ljubičić, David Ferrer and Carlos Moyà were some of the seeded players to advance. Jelena Janković got through a struggle with Alizé Cornet. Sybille Bammer upset Elena Dementieva. |
| 6. | Agnieszka Radwańska, seeded 30th, stunned the number two seed and defending champion Maria Sharapova 6-4, 1-6, 6-2. The upsets continued through the day in the women's draw, with Swiss players Martina Hingis and Patty Schnyder suffering defeat, along with another upset of Nadia Petrova packing. Andy Roddick, James Blake, Nikolay Davydenko, Tommy Haas and Tomáš Berdych all went through. Roger Federer also won despite losing a tight first set. However, Andy Murray lost to Korea's Lee Hyung-taik in four sets. |
| 7. | The men's draw saw Carlos Moyà, David Ferrer, Juan Mónaco, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Stanislas Wawrinka advance to make the fourth round. Ernests Gulbis upset Tommy Robredo and Juan Ignacio Chela upset twelfth seed Ivan Ljubičić. In the women's draw, Justine Henin beat Dinara Safina, Serena Williams beat Marion Bartoli, Jelena Janković beat Sybille Bammer and Venus Williams cruised past Ana Ivanović. |
| 8. | Tommy Haas, Shahar Pe'er, Roger Federer, Nikolay Davydenko, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Anna Chakvetadze all advanced. However, Julia Vakulenko lost out to Ágnes Szávay. In men's doubles, the top seeded Bryan brothers were upset by tenth-seeded Simon Aspelin and Julian Knowle. In women's doubles, second-seeded Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur were shocked by Bethanie Mattek and Sania Mirza. |
| 9. | Novak Djokovic was able to defeat Juan Mónaco to set up a meeting with Carlos Moyà who beat Latvian Ernests Gulbis. Juan Ignacio Chela survived unseeded Stanislas Wawrinka in five sets to advance to the quarterfinals. Justine Henin beat Serena Williams to make the women's semifinals, and David Ferrer shocked Rafael Nadal in a thrilling four-set match. |
| 10. | Roger Federer and Nikolay Davydenko have set up a match to earn a spot in the title match. In the women's draw, the semifinal line-up was complete with three matches taking the court. Anna Chakvetadze and Svetlana Kuznetsova will face off in the semifinals, and Venus Williams beat Jelena Janković in a thrilling encounter, with Venus having to come from a set down to eventually win 4-6, 6-1, 7-6. |
| 11. | David Ferrer reached his first Grand Slam semi-final by defeating Juan Ignacio Chela, whereas Novak Djokovic beat Carlos Moyà 6-4, 7-6 (7), 6-1. and reach his third Grand Slam semifinal of the year. The mixed doubles competition was won by Max Mirnyi and Victoria Azarenka. |
| 12. | Justine Henin came through in straight sets and defeated the Williams sisters in the same tournament. Only Martina Hingis has done this. Henin and Williams battled a classic, while Anna Chakvetadze at first dominated by errors of Svetlana Kuznetsova, but then Chakvetadze had errors and Kuznetsova got by 3-6, 6-1, 6-1. |
| 13. | Justine Henin dominated her final against Svetlana Kuznetsova and didn't lose a set in the tournament. Her 6-1, 6-3 victory over the Russian gave her a second US Open title. Esther Vergeer and Jiske Griffioen won the Wheelchair Women's Doubles final while Japanese pair Shingo Kunieda and Satoshi Saida won the Wheelchair Men's Doubles final over Robin Ammerlaan and Michael Jeremiasz. Jonathan Eysseric and Jérôme Inzerillo won the Boy's Doubles and Ksenia Milevskaya and Urszula Radwańska won the Girl's Doubles. |
| 14. | Roger Federer won for the fourth consecutive year to bring his overall Grand Slam singles titles tally to twelve. |
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