Victoria Azarenka kept chiding herself — "Don't be a chicken" — while cobbling together a 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (5) rain-interrupted win that eliminated defending champion Sam Stosur and put the top-seeded Belarusian in her first semifinal at Flushing Meadows.

Tuesday's win also assured Azarenka of retaining the No. 1 ranking no matter what happens the rest of this week.

British swim queen Ellie Simmonds broke her own world record twice on Monday, cementing her place as the host nation's Paralympic poster girl in claiming her second gold of the London Games.

The 17-year-old won the SM6 200m individual medley in a record 3min 5.39sec, just hours after beating her own personal and world best in the heats with a time of 3min 6.97sec.

Olympic champion Andy Murray advanced safely to the last eight at the U.S. Open on Monday night.

Seeking his first Grand Slam title after four runner-up finishes, he defeated Canadian 15th seed Milos Raonic 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 in a night match at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Ana Ivanovic believes Serb compatriot Novak Djokovic could tip the balance in her favor when she takes on red-hot title favorite Serena Williams for a place in the U.S. Open semifinals.

Ivanovic has never beaten 14-time Grand Slam title winner Williams in three meetings, failing even to win a set, with two of those defeats coming in New York in 2006 and 2011.

Tiger Woods has become the first $100 million man on the PGA Tour.

Woods finished third Monday in the Deutsche Bank Championship and made $544,000, pushing his career total to $100,350,700. Next on the list is Phil Mickelson, who finished fourth at the TPC Boston and has $66,805,498.

Egyptian football coach Mahmud al-Gohary, who steered his national team to the World Cup in 1990, died Monday aged 74 after suffering a brain stroke in Jordan, the official MENA news agency said.

Gohary, who inspired a pop song after his name when he took the Egyptian team to the championship in Italy, had been taken to hospital in Amman where he had been managing the Jordanian national team.

Rafael Nadal has a partially torn patella tendon in his left knee and will be sidelined for at least the next two months, including Spain's upcoming Davis Cup semifinal against the United States.

"I have to recover and I'll be back once the pain is gone," Nadal said in a website posting linked to his Twitter feed.

Equaling the record for the latest finish at the U.S. Open, Philipp Kohlscreiber of Germany eliminated John Isner of the United States 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 at 2:26 a.m. local time Monday to reach the fourth round.

The official completion time was the same as a second-round match in 1993, when Mats Wilander beat Mikael Pernfors. The latest finishing match at any Grand Slam was the 4:34 a.m. end to Lleyton Hewitt's third-round encounter against Marcos Baghdatis at the 2008 Australian Open.

South Africa's Oscar Pistorius has reopened the debate about whether artificial blades give amputee runners an unfair advantage after sensationally losing his T44 200m title at the London Paralympics.

The 25-year-old "Blade Runner", so-called because he runs on carbon fiber prostheses, was beaten into silver by Brazil's Alan Oliveira on Sunday evening, stunning the 80,000-strong crowd at the Olympic Stadium into silence.

Fernando Alonso said he felt fortunate to have escaped serious injury in Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix when he was almost struck by Romain Grosjean's airborne Lotus.

Spaniard Alonso of Ferrari was left as a stranded victim of a multiple collision triggered by Frenchman Grosjean's impetuous aggression.