Selected first round resultsMenVerdasco bt Machado 6-1, 6-2, 6-4Fish bt Soeda 7-6, 7-6, 6-3Davydenko bt Pella 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2Simon bt Russell 7-6, 3-6, 5-7,6-4, 6-1López bt Haase 6-3, 7-5, 6-2Blake bt Lacko 7-5, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3Cilic bt Matosevic 5-7, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4Women Wickmayer bt Glushko 7-5, 6-2Bartoli bt Hampton 6-3, 7-6Šafárová bt Oudin 6-4, 6-0Wozniak bt Cadantu 6-0, 6-3Hradecká bt Medina 6-3, 6-3Kvitová bt Hercog 7-6, 6-1Li bt Watson 6-2, 6-3NEW YORK - Andy Murray’s serve was anything but golden on the opening day of the U.S. Open but the Olympic champion still had too much firepower for Alex Bogomolov Jr. and led a parade of favorites into the second round on Monday.The top guns had little trouble making it through to their first-round encounters, with world number one Roger Federer, three-times champion Kim Clijsters, and top-seeded Victoria Azarenka hardly breaking sweat.Murray was at his best when it mattered most, recording a service break in a healthy nine of 19 chances against the 29-year-old Russian to win 6-2 6-4 6-1 in two hours, 15 minutes.However, the Scotsman, who beat Roger Federer to win the gold medal at the London Games in what he called his best career victory, successfully landed only 49 percent of his first serves in humid, windy conditions against Bogomolov.Federer, seeking his sixth title at Flushing Meadows, dismantled American Donald Young 6-3 6-2 6-4 while Clijsters overwhelmed American teenager Victoria Duval 6-3 6-1.Not to be outdone, Azarenka, seeking her second major title after winning this year’s Australian Open, blew past Russian Alexandra Panova 6-0 6-1 in just 50 minutes.Defending champion Samantha Stosur needed only 51 minutes to blitz Croatia’s Petra Martic 6-1 6-1, while 2006 U.S. Open winner Maria Sharapova blew by Hungary’s Melinda Czink 6-2 6-2.
