‘TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY…THE U.S. OPEN BEGINS MONDAY

Dear Tennis Is Tops Readers: This is my invitation to you to follow the the U.S. Open, which begins on Monday, August 30, and ends on September 12.

If you can’t be in New York, you can at least follow the Open  here, with me, on Tennis Is Tops, or watch it on TV, if you have the time or the interest. I have both. I will also be at the Open on Saturday, September 5, thanks to my cousin Alex Goldberg,(see his photo at the end of this article) who has generously given us free tickets for the day session. We have in previous years taken a one day bus trip. We don’t know yet where we will be sitting, but it will be somewhere here in Ashe Stadium, which has a seating capacity of nearly 23,000, plus luxury suites. We’ll know where we will sit when Alex picks up the tickets at will-call. Our bus trip seats have always been nosebleed seats at the top of the stadium (yellow). But we could still see quite well.

Since you can't go with us, you can always see the live scoring on the website, www.usopen.org. Below is the television schedule, or you can see it at this link. www.tennis-x.com/xblog/2010-08-23/5058.php.



As in the past, I will be contributing articles to Tennisnow.com, and I will also post them here. http://www.tennisnow.com/

As usual, the early rounds will be televised by ESPN2, and Tennis Channel; CBS handles all the finals.


(all times Eastern and coverage is live unless noted otherwise)


Thursday, August 26

Noon-1 p.m. Draw Announcement Show ESPN2


Sunday, August 29

Noon-1:30 p.m. Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day CBS (tape)

Monday, August 30

11a.m.-7 p.m. Early Round Action Tennis Channel*

1-7 p.m. Early Round Action ESPN2

7-11 p.m. Primetime Early Round Action ESPN2

Tuesday, August 31
11a.m.-7 p.m. Early Round Action Tennis Channel*


7-11 p.m. Primetime Early Round Action ESPN2

 Wednesday, September 1

11a.m.-7 p.m. Early Round Action Tennis Channel*

1-7 p.m. Early Round Action ESPN2

7-11 p.m. Primetime Early Round Action ESPN2

Thursday, September 2

11a.m.-7 p.m. Early Round Action Tennis Channel*

1-7 p.m. Early Round Action ESPN2

7-11 p.m. Primetime Early Round Action ESPN2

Friday, September 3

11a.m.-7 p.m. Early Round Action Tennis Channel*

1-7 p.m. Early Round Action ESPN2

7-11 p.m. Early Round Action ESPN2

Saturday, September 4

11a.m.-6 p.m. Third Round CBS

7-11 p.m. Third Round Tennis Channel

Sunday, September 5

11a.m.-6 p.m. Third Round/Round of 16 CBS

7-11 p.m. Third Round/Round of 16 Tennis Channel

Monday, September 6

11a.m.-6 p.m. Round of 16 Round CBS

7-11 p.m. Primetime Round of 16 ESPN2

Tuesday, September 7

11a.m.-7 p.m. Tennis Channel**

11 a.m.-7 p.m. Men’s Round of 16, Women’s Quarterfinals ESPN2

7-11 p.m. Primetime Men’s Round of 16, Women’s Quarterfinals ESPN2

Wednesday, September 8

11a.m.-7 p.m. Tennis Channel**

11 a.m.-7 p.m. Quarterfinals ESPN2

7-11 p.m. Primetime Quarterfinals ESPN2

Thursday, September 9

11a.m.-7 p.m. Tennis Channel**

11 a.m.-7 p.m. Men’s Quarterfinals ESPN2

7-11 p.m. Primetime Men’s Quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles Final ESPN2

Friday, September 10

12:30pm.-6 p.m. Mixed’s Doubles Final/Women’s SF CBS
Saturday, September 11

12-6 p.m. Men’s SF CBS

8 p.m.-10 p.m. Women’s Final CBS

Sunday, September 12

1-3 p.m. Women’s Doubles Final ESPN2

4 p.m.- 7 p.m. Men’s Final CBS




Here's Alex...(Thank you for the tickets, cuz.)

(By the way, you can read my articles about last year's Open by clicking on Tennis Week Articles link at left)