Fireworks go off before the women's singles finals between Serena Williams
Singer Anita Baker performs before the women's singles finals.
And there was this “added bonus,” as Williams termed it: She returns to the top of the rankings.
After winning the match point, Serena flung her racket straight up and jumped for joy, hopping and skipping and screaming and generally looking like someone who had just won her first U.S. Open title or earned her debut at No. 1 in the rankings.As the women met at the net afterward, Williams felt compelled to say to Jankovic, “I’m sorry I got so excited.”No apology necessary.
“Serena was a better player tonight,” Jankovic said. “She was just too good tonight.”
It was Williams’ first triumph at Flushing Meadows since 2002, and it guaranteed that the American will lead the rankings Monday for the first time since August 2003—the longest gap between stints at No. 1 for a woman.
Her previous Grand Slam title came in January 2007, at the Australian Open.
Serena's boyfriend and rapper Common and Sir Richard Branson 
Actors Brendan Cowell, Rose Byrne and Glenn Close 
Supermodel Naomi Campbell
Singer Rob Thomas and his wife Marisol Thomas
Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend did not win the U.S Open.
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Cara Black and Liezel Huber beat Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur a 6-3, 7-6 (6) Sunday to win their first U.S. Open women’s doubles championship.It’s the fourth Grand Slam tournament title, and 20th title overall, as a team for the top-seeded Black and Huber. They also won Wimbledon in 2005 and 2007, and the Australian Open in 2007. They didn’t drop a single set at Flushing Meadows.
Black also won this year’s U.S. Open mixed doubles title, pairing with Leander Paes to beat Huber and Jamie Murray.
When the women's doubles match ended, Black and Huber dropped their rackets, shrieked and hopped into each other’s arms for a hug.
The 10th-seeded Raymond and Stosur, the 2005 U.S. Open champions, also were the runners-up at Wimbledon this year, losing to Venus and Serena Williams in that final. The Williams sisters didn’t enter the U.S. Open doubles event.(Image by AFP/Getty Images/Matthew Stockman)
It turns out the rain delay in the men's semifinals between Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal is not exactly a blessing for the latter.
Murray continued and finished a stunning victory over Nadal 6-2, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-4 at the U.S. Open last night to reach his first ever Grand Slam final.
The sixth-seeded Murray won the first two sets and was down a break at 3-2 in the third when play was suspended Saturday because of Tropical Storm Hanna.
He is trying to become the first British man to win a major tennis championship since Fred Perry at the 1936 U.S. Open.
Murray will face four-time defending U.S. Open champion Roger Federer in the delayed Monday night’s final. Federer beat Novak Djokovic in four sets in a semifinal that was completed before the rain arrived Saturday.
(Image by AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Fireworks go off before the women's singles finals between Serena Williams
Singer Anita Baker performs before the women's singles finals. 
Serena's boyfriend and rapper Common and Sir Richard Branson 
Actors Brendan Cowell, Rose Byrne and Glenn Close 
Supermodel Naomi Campbell
Singer Rob Thomas and his wife Marisol Thomas
Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend did not win the U.S Open.
