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CBS SPORTS’ LABOR DAY COVERAGE FEATURES TOP SEEDED AMERICANS ANDY RODDICK AND JAMES BLAKE ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
CBS Sports continues its 40th year covering THE U.S. OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS with Labor Day coverage on Monday, Sept. 3 (11:00 AM-6:00 PM, ET) with men’s and women’s fourth-round action. Headlining CBS Sports’ coverage is American and No. 5-seeded Andy Roddick taking on No. 9-seeded Tomas Berdych. Fellow American and No. 6-seeded James Blake plays No. 10-seeded Tommy Haas and No. 4-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova takes on Victoria Azarenka.
Lead play-by-play announcer Dick Enberg will be joined by expert analysts Mary Carillo and John McEnroe in the booth for the eighth consecutive year. Bill Macatee also will call tennis action for CBS Sports, with Patrick McEnroe as analyst. Mary Joe Fernandez serves as reporter. Ian Eagle serves as contributor.
Bob Mansbach serves as coordinating producer of CBS Sports’ live coverage of tennis’ final grand slam of the year. Mansbach, David Winner and Ken Mack produce. Lead director Bob Fishman will direct along with Cathy Barreto.
Tony Petitti is Executive Vice President and Executive Producer, CBS Sports.
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NOTES & QUOTES FROM CBS SPORTS’ COVERAGE ON SEPT. 2
CBS Sports’ Dick Enberg and Mary Carillo on the Williams sisters
Enberg: There is no question that Venus and Serena Williams are the most successful sister act, not just in tennis, but in the history of all of sport.
Carillo: At least they are back out there playing. And they have each won a major this year…If they played more their rankings would be higher and they would be, in my mind, one and two in the world. They deserve to be known as two of the all-time greats. But obviously they don’t have the numbers to back that up yet because they don’t play the way that Steffi Graf, who won 22 majors; Chris (Evert) and Martina (Navratilova) played for 20 years and won 18 majors each. I’d love to think that these two could… One of them could easily win a second major this year by winning the U.S. Open.
