The players from the States have won 34 Grand Slam singles titles in the last decade alone
Andy Murray may have a dismal record in the Australian Open final, but he is not the only tennis star to come up short at the majors.
Flushing Meadows shook with an explosion of deafening roars on Saturday as American sensations John Isner and Melanie Oudin sent former champions Andy Roddick and Maria Sharapova spinning out of the US Open.
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World number two Maria Sharapova, a stunning second-round loser at Wimbledon last month, has taken on eight-time Grand Slam winner Jimmy Connors as her new coach.
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Second seed Roger Federer beat Andy Roddick 5-7 7-6 7-6 3-6 16-14 in an epic Wimbledon final to claim a record 15th Grand Slam title.
Spain's Rafa Nadal will face American Andy Roddick in the semi-finals of the Sony Ericsson Open after the pair enjoyed convincing victories on Wednesday.
Serena Williams returned to the top of the world with a routine win at the China Open on Tuesday but Andy Roddick and Jelena Jankovic plumbed the depths when their title defences ended in their opening matches.
List of US Open men's singles champions since the Open Era began in 1968:
Andy Roddick's hopes of a fifth Queen's Club title ended painfully on Saturday when the American limped out midway through the first set of his all-American semi-final against James Blake with a right ankle injury.
Factbox on Rafael Nadal, who beat Novak Djokovic 6-0, 6-2, 7-5 on Sunday to win a record-extending 13th French Open title:
The Serb said he threw in the towel in the quarter-final against Andy Roddick because of 'cramping and soreness in the whole body'.
Serbia's tennis titans locked in their second round Australian Open spots on Monday while Andy Roddick scorched a sacrificial Swede and Roger Federer schmoozed his way through on Day One of the year's first Grand Slam. Ana Ivanovic, Jelena Jankovic and Novak Djokovic flew through early at Melbourne Park as did Roddick. Federer was a delight under the stars, finessing his way to round two with a 6-1 7-6 7-5 win over Italy's Andreas Seppi.
It took the 20-year-old American a minute short of five hours to make his 11-year advantage count against the valiant Moroccan, Roddick sealing a five set victory to reach his first Grand Slam semis.
US Davis Cup debutant Sam Querrey will face world number one Rafael Nadal in the opening rubber of the semi-final on Friday.
Novak Djokovic outgunned Andy Roddick in a high-quality shootout to set up a tantalising semi-final with four-times champion Roger Federer.
Andy Roddick's rare victory over world number one Roger Federer last week has boosted his confidence in time for this weekend's Davis Cup quarter-finals where he will pilot holders the United States against France. Eight of the world's top 10 players will line up for the four ties being played from Friday to Sunday.
Rafael Nadal survived a barrage of aces from Ivo Karlovic on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the Queen's Club ATP tournament for the first time with a 6-7, 7-6, 7-6 victory. The top seed saw 35 aces fly past his racket but showed plenty of grasscourt skills of his own to sneak through to face defending champion Andy Roddick in the semi-finals.
Fifth seed Nikolay Davydenko beat Briton Andy Murray 7-5 6-4 to reach the semi-finals of the Dubai Championships on Thursday.
Putting all the stats together, 6ft 11in tall Ivo Karlovic emerges as arguably the strongest contender. He tops the lists for number of aces, aces per match and percentage of service games won.
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Serbia's Novak Djokovic produced the performance of his career to beat world number one and defending champion Roger Federer 7-6, 2-6, 7-6 to win the Montreal Masters on Sunday.
Dancevic shocked top seed Andy Roddick while Tursunov beat American Sam Querrey in the semi-finals of the Indianapolis championships.
Russia, losing finalists to the US last year, also went 2-0 up on day one, helped by misfortune in the Serbian camp.
The world number two launched his campaign for a third successive Rome Masters title with a below-par win over Italian wild card Daniele Bracciali.
List of Wimbledon men's singles champions since 1922.
Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick advanced into the last eight of the Miami Masters.
Australian Bernard Tomic's appeal to overturn a fine for not playing to "required professional standards" at Wimbledon earlier this month has been denied in a stinging rebuke by the Grand Slam board.
Marat Safin battled to 6-3, 7-6 first round win over Igor Kunitsyn at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic.
The 20-year-old became the youngest semi-finalist at Melbourne Park since American Andy Roddick, also 20, at the 2003 tournament.
The American pulled out of the Las Vegas Open after three successive weeks of tennis
Argentine Guillermo Coria and Russia's Nikolay Davydenko are front-runners for the last two slots at the end-of-season Masters Cup.
The rain that plagued the Wimbledon fortnight came to the rescue of Roger Federer in the men's final on Sunday.\n\n
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