It is another fine, bright day down in Queens with most of the local spectators looking forward to taking in two intriguing matches involving the Williams sisters
Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova comes into her fourth-round match against Serena with just one win from their previous eight meetings
In a brutal display of power, including eight aces, the younger Williams dishes up another heavy defeat as she breezes through 6-2 6-0
Spain's Juan Carlos Ferrero was taken to five sets in the previous round by Germany's Philipp Petzschner and looks in for the long haul again after taking a closely fought tie-break to move 2-1 up against Gilles Simon
But his French opponent retires hurt early in the fourth to bring a premature end to their contest
Britain's Laura Robson, who almost qualified for the main draw, strides through her opening match in the junior girls' tournament with a 6-0 6-1 win over Tunisia's Ons Jabeur
Rafael Nadal is forced to take some time out on the Arthur Ashe concrete as he struggles with a stomach strain in his third-round match with fellow Spaniard Nicolas Almagro
But the 23-year-old from Majorca comes through to win 7-5 6-4 6-4 and book a match against 13th seed Gael Monfils
After Serena's leisurely win earlier in the day, its an altogether more uncomfortable start to the evening for sister Venus as she loses the opening set of her match against Kim Clijsters to love
The third seed returns the bagel in the second set but finds herself eventually outgunned in the third to lose 6-0 0-6 6-4
Clijsters duly celebrates after claiming the biggest scalp since the birth of daughter Jada Ellie in February 2008 and her return from retirement in August
Clijsters goes on to face China's Li Na in the quarter-finals, while Venus has to concentrate on her doubles campaign with sister Serena
Julien Benneteau does not enjoy the experience of taking on seventh seed and fellow Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on the Grandstand court
Tsonga wraps up a 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 6-4 win and goes on to face 11th seed Fernando Gonzalez in the last 16
Austria's Daniel Koellerer gets up to all manner of hi-jinx in his match against fifth seed Juan Martin del Potro on Louis Armstrong Stadium
Del Potro overcomes a second-set blip to win 6-1 3-6 6-3 6-3 and stay on course for a meeting with Andy Murray in the quarter-finals
Italian Flavia Pennetta continues her superb run with a dramatic win over Russia's Vera Zvonarena in the night session, saving six match points along the way
Andy Murray is back for another night session as he takes on American wild card Taylor Dent for a place in the last 16
Dent manages to recover an early break and keeps the crowd entertained with his all-out attack, but he soon finds it hard going against the world number two
The Murray groundstrokes, and his return in particular, prove too good for the net-rushing Dent and he closes in on victory after one hour and 30 minutes
Murray seals a 6-3 6-2 6-2 win and a place in the fourth round, where he will take on Croatia's 16th seed Marin Cilic
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