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US Open Glance

NEW YORK (AP) - A look at Tuesday's play, the opening day of the $46.3 million U.S. Open tennis championships:

WEATHER: Sunny and warm. High of 90.

ATTENDANCE: Day: 35,794.

MEN'S SEEDED WINNERS: First Round: No. 3 Stan Wawrinka, No. 6 Kei Nishikori, No. 11 David Ferrer, No. 14 Nick Kyrgios, No. 16 Feliciano Lopez, No. 21 Ivo Karlovic, No. 22 Grigor Dimitrov, No. 27 Alexander Zverev and No. 30 Gilles Simon.

MEN'S SEEDED LOSERS: No. 12 David Goffin, No. 17 Bernard Tomic, No. 25 Philipp Kohlschreiber and No. 29 Sam Querrey.

WOMEN'S SEEDED WINNERS: First Round: No. 1 Serena Williams, No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska, No. 5 Simona Halep, No. 6 Venus Williams, No. 10 Karolina Pliskova, No. 11 Carla Suarez Navarro, No. 15 Timea Bacsinszky, No. 16 Sam Stosur, No. 17 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, No. 19 Elena Vesnina, No. 25 Caroline Garcia, No. 26 Laura Siegemund and No. 31 Timea Babos.

WOMEN'S SEEDED LOSERS: No. 20 Kiki Bertens, No. 23 Daria Kasatkina and No. 29 Ana Ivanovic.

TOP PLAYERS ON COURT WEDNESDAY: Men: No. 1 Novak Djokovic vs. Jiri Vesely, No. 4 Rafael Nadal vs. Andreas Seppi, No. 5 Milos Raonic vs. Ryan Harrison, No. 7 Marin Cilic vs. Sergiy Stakhovsky. Women: No. 2 Angelique Kerber vs. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, No. 3 Garbine Muguruza vs. Anastasija Sevastova, No. 7 Roberta Vinci vs. Christina McHale, No. 8 Madison Keys vs. Kayla Day.

STAT OF THE DAY: 0 - The number of games lost by Carla Suarez Navarro in her 6-0, 6-0 first-round victory over Teliana Pereira.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I even played tennis for a while sitting on a chair because I couldn't stand. I'm not crying you a river here; I'm just telling you how it actually was." - Janko Tipsarevic describing the anguish of missing more than two years because of a series of health problems.

WEDNESDAY ON TV (All Times EDT): 1-6 p.m., ESPN; 7-11 p.m., ESPN2

ON THIS DATE (Aug. 31, 2002): Martina Hingis defeats Amanda Coetzer, Jennifer Capriati beats Meghann Shaughnessy and the team of Hingis and Anna Kournikova defeats Laura Granville and Jennifer Hopkins in the first all-women night session.

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