Safin is through to the US Open last 16 for the first time since 2001

"I really am tired a little bit of making comebacks."
A resurgent Marat Safin on his up-and-down career.

"You ask any player, I can beat anybody if I am on my game. I think I can win it, but I don't want to think so far ahead."
Jelena Jankovic, brimming with confidence after knocking out Svetlana Kuznetsova.

"I'm ecstatic that I've gotten to this point. I promise you if someone had asked me at Wimbledon, I would have laughed that I would even be able to play here."
Lindsay Davenport emerges from an injury-wrecked season to reach the quarter-finals.

"Shooting the guy who shot Bambi? I guess it feels better than shooting Bambi."
Andy Roddick after beating Andre Agassi's conqueror Benjamin Becker.

"From qualifying, from achieving my goal to be top 100, from playing Agassi and winning and getting another chance to play on centre court against Roddick, it's been a pretty amazing trip for me."
Becker sums up his week in New York.

"We'd practise, he'd come home, kick his feet up on my couch, have a beer. It was pretty surreal."
Roddick on the start of his player-coach relationship with American legend Jimmy Connors.