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A look at the U.S. Open, the years last Grand Slam tennis tournament:Surface: Hard courts.Site: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.Schedule: The 14-day tournament begins Monday. The womens singles final is Saturday, Sept. 10; the mens singles final is Sunday, Sept. 11.New This Year: A $150 million retractable roof has been installed at Arthur Ashe Stadium, which will allow play when it rains.2015 Mens Singles Champion: Novak Djokovic of Serbia.2015 Womens Singles Champion: Flavia Pennetta of Italy.Last Year: Serena Williams bid for the first calendar-year Grand Slam since 1988 ended with a stunning loss to unseeded Roberta Vinci in the semifinals. Vinci then lost to Pennetta in the first all-Italian major final, 7-6 (4), 6-2. After winning her first Grand Slam trophy, Pennetta announced she would retire at the end of the season. Djokovic beat Roger Federer 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 for his second U.S. Open title and 10th major championship overall.Key Statistic I: 22 -- Number of Grand Slam singles titles won by Williams, sharing the professional-era record with Steffi Graf. Williams can break their tie at Flushing Meadows. Only Margaret Court has won more, 24 -- 11 as a professional, 13 as an amateur.Key Statistic II: 186 -- Number of consecutive weeks Williams will have spent at No. 1 by the end of the U.S. Open, equaling Grafs all-time WTA record. Depending on results in New York, Williams could be surpassed in the rankings after the tournament.Whos Missing: Top names missing from this years field include Roger Federer (letting left knee heal), Maria Sharapova (serving a doping suspension), Victoria Azarenka (pregnant), Tomas Berdych (appendicitis).Prize Money: Total payout to players is a tournament-record $46.3 million, a $4 million increase from 2015. The mens and womens singles champions each receive $3.5 million, up from $3.3 million last year.---Online: www.usopen.org Lubomir Visnovsky Jersey . Speaking to the Chicago Tribune at baseballs Winter Meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Boras called the former home of the Expos a "tremendous environment" for baseball. Cheap Ducks Jerseys .Y. -- Syracuse has turned up the defence at the right time all season, and when High Point threatened to pull off a monumental upset the second-ranked Orange did what they do best with their quick hands and savvy play. https://www.cheapducks.com/1127c-jakob-silfverberg-jersey-ducks.html . A knee to the thigh might have stung him the most, but his sixth straight double-double made up for the brief burst of pain. Frederik Andersen Jersey . Uniteds eighth defeat of a wretched campaign means Liverpool, which currently occupies the fourth and final Champions League place, could go nine points clear of its fierce rival by beating West Bromwich Albion on Sunday. Charlie Adam scored both of Stokes goals at Britannia Stadium either side of Robin van Persies equalizer, with a miserable day for seventh-place United capped by first-half injuries to centre halves Jonny Evans and Phil Jones that forced them off. Andy McDonald Jersey . 10 Texas A&Ms offence dominated as usual against SMU. Injured All Black Sonny Bill Williams wasted no time firing a twitter barb at Wallabies coach Michael Cheika after the Wallabies fell to their fifth straight loss of 2016.The Wallabies slumped to a 29-9 loss to the All Blacks and their 14th straight Bledisloe Cup loss on Saturday night and it wasnt long before Williams made the big twitter hit on the maligned Australia coach.Williams is currently sidelined after tearing his Achilles tendon at the Rio Olympics earlier this month and is clearly unimpressed with Cheikas coaching efforts with the Wallabies so ffar this year.ddddddddddddThe injured star received over a thousand likes for his tweet, but also received plenty of backlash from fans who told the star centre that he should be more humble and was better than that.Injured Wallabies veteran Matt Giteau sent his own response to the tweet.Williams could face discipline from New Zealand Rugby if he is found to have breached their social media policy, but no decision has been made. ' ' '