Kaufman will be in charge of 290 officials from all over the world for the year's final Grand Slam event.
Three-time champion Kim Clijsters, appearing in her final grand slam before retiring from the sport, faces Olympic mixed doubles silver medalist Laura Robson of Britain.
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Williams will be defending champion at Flushing Meadows and said there was little for her to improve on before the final Grand Slam event of the year gets under way.
Britain's Murray had received treatment on court during his Wednesday win over Cipolla and decided not to risk it ahead of the final grand slam of the season at the U.S. Open later this month.
The Wimbledon doubles title had also been at the expense of Huber and Black in a 6-1 6-2 thrashing and the Americans were similarly dominant in front of a thin crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium as the final grand slam of the year stretched into an extra day following the heavy rain delays of late last week.
The former world number one was appearing in a record-equalling 19th Grand Slam final, his fifth in succession and, remarkably, his 15th in the last 16 Grand Slam tournaments.
Djokovic won two remarkable battles in Australia, the first against Andy Murray in the semifinals (five sets and nearly five hours) and the second in the final against Rafael Nadal (five sets in five hours and 53 minutes, a record for a Grand Slam final).
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It lasted a boiled egg under six hours, beating the second-longest Grand Slam final by 59 minutes.
He has also never played a Grand Slam final on a grass surface.
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The victory means Federer is now just one away from Ivan Lendl's all-time record of 19 grand slam final appearances.
It will be his second grand slam final, having lost to Roger Federer in the final on the 2008 U.S. Open.
Initially showing the nerves typical of a player making her Grand Slam final debut, Ms. Azarenka found herself serving at 0-2, 0-30.
And Federer paid tribute to his rival for winning his first major tennis title less than a month after losing his fourth grand slam final.
Sharapova never lost faith that she would recover, but she would have to wait another three years before reaching another grand slam final, losing at Wimbledon in 2011.
Ferrero's time at Roland Garros looked to have come this year when he beat Andre Agassi and Marat Safin on the way to his first Grand Slam final.
An understandably nervous-looking Soderling, contesting his first Grand Slam final, went wide once and long twice before double-faulting to give his opponent an effortless break of serve in game one.
The 27-year-old Federer, playing in his 19th grand slam final, could not have wished for a better start under threatening skies, which produced drizzling rain for the majority of the match.
She was a revelation back then, a hard hitting, screeching, almost reckless ball-basher who did something unthinkable in her first Grand Slam final: She pummeled two-time defending Wimbledon champion Serena Williams.
Nonetheless, she was the first Pole to contest a grand slam final since the Open Era began in 1968 -- even if her defeat meant she missed out on a long-held dream.
"Even though he lost, there will be an inner feeling he gave it his all, " said Bollettieri, reflecting on the Scot's fourth successive grand slam final defeat -- three of them against Federer.
The first came in the semifinals of the Australian Open, beaten in five sets by the Serbian, who then overcame Nadal in another marathon six-hour encounter -- the longest grand slam final in history.
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Murray has never won a Grand Slam final.
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After tournament victories in Cincinnati, Madrid and St Petersburg, and with a first Grand Slam final at the US Open in between, Murray had finally begun to show signs of a dip in form this week.
Her exploits raised the profile of tennis in Belgium, and her rivalry with Justine Henin was keenly fought, with Clijsters winning 13 of their 25 meetings -- although Henin won all three of their grand slam final matches.
In a match that lasted an hour and 33 minutes, Clijsters took the first set that saw her take a 2-0 lead before Wozniacki, in her first grand slam final, took the next four games to go 4-2.
"What matters is that I won two matches and I'm in the third round, " said the 25-year-old, who reached his maiden Grand Slam final last year after becoming the first man to beat Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros.
She has pressed on since, adding a further 11 WTA titles and reaching her highest ranking of No. 2 in 2012, a year when she reached her first grand slam final -- albeit beaten by (who else?) Serena Williams at Wimbledon.
We've seen a nearly six-hour Grand Slam final at the Australian Open in 2012 and in 2009, Roger Federer and Andy Roddick two men known for playing like they're trying to catch a flight played a four-hour, 16-minute final at Wimbledon, home of the shortest points in tennis.
Storyteller Steve Zimmer, winner of 12 Moth StorySlams and two GrandSlams (the final round featuring 10 slam winners), explained the appeal of this burgeoning form.
Obviously some people think it's shocking, but many players would die to play a Grand Slam quarter-final.
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