A look at Wednesday's play at the $20.657 million U.S. Open tennis championships:

WEATHER: Sunny and beautiful. High of 78.

ATTENDANCE: Day: 36,580. Night: 23,763. Total: 60,343.

MEN'S SEEDED WINNERS: No. 3 Novak Djokovic, No. 5 Nikolay Davydenko, No. 8 Andy Roddick, No. 18 Nicolas Almagro, No. 19 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, No. 26 Dmitry Tursunov, No. 28 Radek Stepanek and No. 30 Marin Cilic.

MEN'S SEEDED LOSERS: None.

WOMEN'S SEEDED WINNERS: No. 2 Jelena Jankovic, No. 3 Svetlana Kuznetsova, No. 5 Elena Dementieva, No. 12 Marion Bartoli, No. 14 Victoria Azarenka, No. 15 Patty Schnyder, No. 21 Caroline Wozniacki, No. 23 Lindsay Davenport, No. 28 Katarina Srebotnik and No. 29 Sybille Bammer.

WOMEN'S SEEDED LOSERS: No. 8 Vera Zvonareva, No. 25 Francesca Schiavone and No. 26 Anabel Medina Garrigues.

TOP PLAYERS ON COURT THURSDAY: Men: Rafael Nadal (1) vs. Ryler De Heart, No. 6 Andy Murray vs. Michael Llodra, James Blake (9) vs. Steve Darcis. Women: No. 1 Ana Ivanovic vs. Julie Coin, No. 4 Serena Williams vs. Elena Vesnina, No. 6 Dinara Safina vs. Roberta Vinci, No. 7 Venus Williams vs. Rossana de Los Rios.

STAT OF THE DAY: 14 of the 34 games of the Jelena Jankovic-Sofia Arvidsson match were service breaks. Jankovic won eight and Arvidsson six.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I would have loved to take a nap on court because I was really exhausted. But the rules are the rules. I had to keep going” – Jelena Jankovic, whose match with Sofia Arvidsson lasted 2 hours, 44 minutes.

THURSDAY ON TV (All Times EDT): USA, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. (live), 7-11 p.m. (live), 2-4 a.m. (match of the day).

ON THIS DATE: Aug. 28, 1984: 15-year-old Steffi Graf made her U.S. Open debut, losing to Sylvia Hanika.