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NEW YORK -- A look at Wednesday's play at the $38.3 million U.S. Open tennis championships: WEATHER: Mostly sunny and very warm. High of 91. ATTENDANCE: NA. MEN'S SEEDED WINNERS: First Round: No. 6 Tomas Berdych, No. 7 Grigor Dimitrov, No. 14 Marin Cilic, No. 18 Kevin Anderson and No. 19 Feliciano Lopez. MEN'S SEEDED LOSERS: No. 27 Santiago Giraldo. WOMEN'S SEEDED WINNERS: Women, Second Round: No. 2 Simona Halep, No. 5 Maria Sharapova, No. 6 Angelique Kerber, No. 9 Jelena Jankovic, No. 10 Caroline Wozniacki, No. 14 Lucie Safarova, No. 18 Andrea Petkovic, No. 22 Alize Cornet, No. 26 Sabine Lisicki, and No. 28 Roberta Vinci. WOMEN'S SEEDED LOSERS: No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska, No. 21 Sloane Stephens and No. 31 Kurumi Nara. TOP PLAYERS ON COURT THURSDAY: Men, Second Round: No. 1 Novak Djokovic vs. Paul-Henri Mathieu, No. 5 Milos Raonic vs. Peter Gojowczyk, No. 8 Andy Murray vs. Matthias Bachinger, No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga; Women, Second Round: No. 1 Serena Williams vs. Vania King, No. 3 Petra Kvitova vs. Petra Cetkovska, No. 7 Eugenie Bouchard vs. Sorana Cirstea, No. 8 Ana Ivanovic vs. Karolina Pliskova. STAT OF THE DAY: 63 -- The number of unforced errors committed by Sloane Stephens in her loss to Johanna Larsson. QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Think about this as a little speed bump and work through it and I will get better." -- Sloane Stephens, who lost her second-round match to Johanna Larsson. THURSDAY ON TV (All Times EDT): Tennis Channel, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; ESPN, 1-6 p.m.; ESPN2, 6-11 p.m. ON THIS DATE (Aug. 28, 1990): Stefan Edberg loses to Alexander Volkov, becoming the first No. 1 seed since 1971 to lose in the first round.
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