Rising star singer/songwriters Demi Lovato, Colby O’Donis and Menudo will team with tennis superstars Roger Federer, Andy Roddick, Ana Ivanovic, Novak Djokovic and more for the 13th annual Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day presented by Hess.
The US Open first round begins Monday, August 25 but if you can not wait to see some great tennis, come out to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center this week as 128 men and 128 women battle it out for places in the year’s final Grand Slam.
2008 US Open women's singles wild cards have been awarded to Americans Ahsha Rolle, Gail Brodsky, Asia Muhammad, Melanie Oudin, CoCo Vandeweghe and Jamea Jackson.
A talented group of Americans consisting of Amer Delic, Brendan Evans, Scoville Jenkins, Austin Krajicek, Jesse Levine, and Sam Warburg, have been awarded men’s singles main draw wild card entries.
Lindsay Davenport is looking forward to making her return to Flushing Meadows in 2008 as she missed the tournament in 2007 after taking time off from the tour to have her first son, Jagger.
Bud Collins, the Hall of Fame tennis journalist and personality and author of the new book The Bud Collins History of Tennis, will conduct numerous book signings in New York during the 2008 U.S. Open to be held August 25 through September 7.
Four-time defending US Open champion Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, the reigning French Open and Wimbledon champion, lead the men’s singles field for the 2008 US Open Tennis Championships.
Two of the three 2008 Grand Slam singles champions -- Ana Ivanovic and Venus Williams -- will be joined by former US Open women’s singles champions Serena Williams, Lindsay Davenport and Svetlana Kuznetsova in the women’s singles field for the 2008 US Open Tennis Championships.
