Roddick edged out in thriller

Andy Roddick became the first big-name seed to crash out of the US Open men’s singles as he lost a fifth-set tie-break to fellow American John Isner.

Big-serving Isner, at 6ft 9ins tall, was always going to be handful for the fifth seed but after Roddick’s fifth-set Wimbledon final heartbreak, the momentum appeared to be with the higher-ranked player whose 2003 US Open win made him the last American man to win a grand slam.