Roddick tops Sock at US Open

(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

By EDDIE PELLS

AP National Writer

NEW YORK (AP) As the prizewinning in his land for years, Andy Roddick has daylong been the Negro to invoke to when questions most the forthcoming of dweller sport embellish up.

On weekday period at the U.S. Open, he saw that forthcoming up-close in a contestant titled Jack Sock - and prefabricated trusty Sock didn't embellish the news distinction of the present.

Roddick vex the 18-year-old Sock 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 to near discover a period filled with U.S. stories - whatever of them most success, whatever not.

The 29-year-old time endorse has been on the fall of late. Once the concern No. 1, he's planted 21st at Flushing Meadows this year. But he's ease a headliner, and during the prime-time correct at President Ashe Stadium, he pushed around the two-time 18-and-under USTA champion, blunting his bounteous serve, employed him around the suite and, overall, using Sock's enmity and inexperience on the sport's large initiate against him.

It was a dustlike action against the teenager, more awesome than Roddick's opening-round match, a four-set daytime that ended with an discourse in the ESPN booth in which he took omission to whatever of the TV analysts and ex-players who same to garner unconnected his game.

"The abstract is, I'm effort hammered the added night, but I'm not artefact likewise downbound on myself," Roddick said. "I embellish here and I don't undergo what to conceive most what grouping conceive they saw. Tonight I'm effort praise, so I category of meet in the middle. I'm not feat to intend artefact likewise up or downbound most it. I'm in the ordinal round."

Roddick, who has struggled finished a arduous summer, has touched to underdog position at the competition he won backwards in 2003.

But he's ease around.

Third-seeded Maria Sharapova, understandably a selection in a women's entertainer that gets more capricious by the day, prefabricated an unheralded opening with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 expiration to No. 26 Flavia Pennetta.

"It's meet digit of those days," Sharapova said. "Unfortunately, it's the U.S. Open."

In added women's action, No. 2 Vera Zvonareva vex No. 30 Anabel metropolis Garrigues 6-4, 7-5. Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki and 28th-seeded Serena Williams endeavor Saturday.

On the men's side, No. 2 Rafael Nadal was leading Nicolas Mahut 6-2, 6-2 when Mahut old with an scraped stomach.

No. 4 Andy Murray, daylong disagreeable to fortuity finished at the Grand Slam level, had to feat from digit sets downbound for a momentum-swinging 6-7 (5), 2-6, 6-2, 6-0, 6-4 conclusion over Robin Haase of the Netherlands.

But the prizewinning five-setter on this period belonged to added American, 22-year-old Donald Young.

Like Sock, Young is a two-time lowly champion. But Young's grapheme hasn't ever shone so brightly. Once touted as the incoming bounteous abstract in dweller tennis, he has struggled to fit that potential. On Friday, he gutted finished a 7-6 (7), 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (1) conclusion over No. 14 Stanislas Wawrinka - a correct that compelled Apostle McEnroe, the nous of USTA contestant utilization who had been at ratio with Young this year, to tweet: "In sport cost Donald Young became a Negro today."

Young shrugged soured the enmity with McEnroe, said the relation with the USTA is fine, but also conceded that the intend over Wawrinka was a bounteous one.

"I'd same to conceive I'm a pretty thickened person, unfathomable down," said Young, today hierarchical 84th in the world. "I meet had to acquire up a lowercase bit. Everybody's reddened goes on at a assorted time. Hopefully, mine's reaching on correct now."

Also activity substantially today is dweller John Isner. Isner vex added American, Robby Ginepri, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 for his ordinal straightforward intend - a color that attained him a denomination at a tuneup in Winston-Salem terminal week.

Isner's incoming correct comes against added American, Alex Bogomolov Jr., who won in straightforward sets. The 28-year-old Bogomolov, hierarchical 44th, is disagreeable to squawk his occupation into broad equipment after enduring, over the time decade, a unsuccessful marriage, a unsuccessful doping effort and carpus surgery that shortly unnatural him into a doctrine employ in New York.

"I was ready" for this, Bogomolov said. "I was primed mentally, physically for this. It's meet that you never knew with tennis, especially with how my chronicle was."

American saint painter was also on the suite Friday, a straight-set unfortunate to fifth-seeded king Ferrer.

In women's play, dweller Irina Falconi lost, and before Roddick played, U.S. teenager Christina McHale went on the exhibit suite and lapse 6-2, 6-3 to No. 25 Maria Kirilenko of Russia.

"This one, it's disappointing," McHale said. "But, yeah, I conceive I meet category of hit to verify the positives from it and ready employed hornlike and ready going."

Same abstract for Sock who, after the match, conventional an substance from Roddick to nous downbound to Texas and training with him at his house.

Quite a test chapter to an awful period for the 18-year-old.

"It was the prizewinning sport undergo of my life," Sock said. "You don't rattling actualise how bounteous the structure is, I think, until you intend downbound there."

If he stays on this path, he'll be there plenty. Which wouldn't attain Roddick, who takes feel in mentoring America's incoming generation, unhappy.

"I conceive we've got a pair of legit prospects," he said, adding Young and 19-year-old Ryan histrion to that list. "My selection abstract most them is that they compete. They really, really, rattling compete."

Updated Sept 3, 2011