By Julian Linden

(Reuters) – National Hockey League (NHL) owners and players spent the first day of the lockout engaged in a public relations battle after their failure to reach a new labor deal threatened to wipe out the upcoming season.

The NHL imposed a league-wide lockout at 12.01 am EDT (0401) on Sunday when the previous Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) expired at midnight.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Britain’s long wait is over. The nation that invented modern tennis finally has a champion for the new age after Andy Murray won the U.S. Open on Monday.

The jokes about wooden rackets and men playing tennis in long, white trousers have lost their punchline and Fred Perry, the last British man to win a grand slam single title way back in 1936, can rest in peace.

NEW YORK, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Britain’s long wait is over.
The nation that invented modern tennis finally has a champion
for the new age after Andy Murray won the U.S. Open on Monday.

The jokes about wooden rackets and men playing tennis in
long, white trousers have lost their punchline and Fred Perry,
the last British man to win a grand slam single title way back
in 1936, can rest in peace.

NEW YORK, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Andy Murray became the first
British man in 76 years to win a grand slam singles title on
Monday, fighting off defending champion Novak Djokovic to win an
epic U.S. Open final.

The Scotsman, beaten in his four previous grand slam finals,
made it fifth time lucky with a nerve-jangling 7-6 7-5 2-6 3-6
6-2 victory at a windy Arthur Ashe Stadium where the players had
to battle the elements as much as each other.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Andy Murray fought off Novak Djokovic to win an epic U.S. Open final on Monday and become the first British man in 76 years to win a grand slam singles title.

The Scotsman, beaten in his four previous grand slam finals, made it fifth time lucky with a nerve-jangling 7-6 7-5 2-6 3-6 6-2 victory at a windy Arthur Ashe Stadium where the players had to battle the elements as much as each other.

NEW YORK, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Andy Murray fought off
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic to win an epic U.S. Open final 7-6 7-5
2-6 3-6 6-2 on Monday and become the first British man in 76
years to win a grand slam singles title.

The Scotsman, beaten in his four previous grand slam finals,
made it fifth time lucky with a nerve-jangling victory at a
windy Arthur Ashe stadium where the players had to battle the
elements as much as each other.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Andy Murray is on the verge of crowning Britain’s golden summer by ending one of the longest droughts in sport. Only the formidable figure of Novak Djokovic stands in his way of winning Monday’s U.S. Open men’s final.

It has been 76 years since a British man last won a grand slam title, providing a mixture of frustration and embarrassment to the country where modern tennis originated.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Serena Williams, through sheer force of will as much as her skill with the racket, beat world number one Victoria Azarenka 6-2 2-6 7-5 in a dramatic U.S. Open final on Sunday to capture her 15th singles grand slam title.

On her best behavior but struggling to subdue an opponent seven years her junior, Williams provided an everlasting reminder of her incredible fighting qualities as she became the tournament’s oldest women’s champion in nearly four decades.

NEW YORK, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Serena Williams, through sheer
force of will as much as her skill with the racket, beat world
number one Victoria Azarenka 6-2 2-6 7-5 in a dramatic U.S. Open
final on Sunday to capture her 15th singles grand slam title.

On her best behaviour but struggling to subdue an opponent
seven years her junior, Williams provided an everlasting
reminder of her incredible fighting qualities as she became the
tournament’s oldest women’s champion in nearly four decades.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Serena Williams, through sheer force of will as much as her unquestionable skill, beat world number one Victoria Azarenka 6-2 2-6 7-5 in a dramatic U.S. Open final on Sunday to win her fourth title at Flushing Meadows and her 15th career grand slam.

On her best behavior but unable to dominate an opponent seven years her junior, Williams showed all her great fighting qualities to survive a ferocious comeback from Azarenka and seal victory after more than two and a quarter hours to become the oldest U.S. Open champion in nearly four decades.