John Jeansonne's aces & faults

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Italy's Francesca Schiavone, in her on-court interview on the public-address system after winning her fourth-round match, declared her love for New York. "Is it the Italian food?" she was asked. She made a sweeping, arm-spread "incomplete pass" gesture. The crowd got it.

FAULT

Rafael Nadal tried the between-the-legs shot successfully pulled off by Roger Federer and Schiavone in first-week action. He netted it.

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Pennsylvanian Lisa Raymond, who is 37 years old and first played in the U.S. Open in 1989, is back again in doubles. She and partner Rennae Stubbs won their third-round match Sunday.

Numbers

0 Wild cards left in the main singles draws. The last of them, Americans Beatrice Capra and James Blake, went out Saturday. (A wild card, Kim Clijsters, won the tournament last year.)

6 Number of men who have won all four Grand Slam events. Rafael Nadal, if he wins the Open, will be the seventh.

21.1 Percentage of instant replay challenges won by the women so far. (The men have been right 30.9 percent of the time.)

Furthermore

The men's doubles team of Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi won their third-round match Sunday. They are the pro tennis partners who are seeking permission to play each other in a peace exhibition of singles tennis on the India-Pakistan border. Bopanna, the Indian, would play on the Pakistani side of the border and Qureshi, who is Pakistani, would play on the Indian side.