Andy Murray

The 20-year-old Scotsman Andy Murray was standing in the players' lounge after his 3-hour-and-37-minute, five-set win yesterday.

He was telling me about his spaghetti and steak dinner at an Italian place on the Upper East Side on 74th Street and how he visited the top of the Empire State Building, which was filled with other tourists.

I asked him if he had any particular goals for the Open.

"Nah, not really," he said, in a thick Scottish accent. "I've been hurt for the last four or five months with a wrist injury so I just wanna play well."

Then we started talking about his unranked third-round opponent, the Korean Hyung-Taik Lee.

"Yeah, I played him once before and I went 7-6 with him in the third,
so ..." He trailed off and then he made a sour face.

Happy Birthday, Andy Roddick! The 2003 U.S. Open Champ turned 25 today and won after Jose Acasuso retired after the third set. Other ranked straight sets winners today: Tomas Berdych, Anna Chakvetadze and Nadia Petrova. Svetlana Kuznetsova and Andy Murray both needed to go the distance to win their matches.

Men's no. 14 Guillermo Canas was upset today and Tommy Haas is down a set, which you can track here.

Maria Sharapova and James Blake play tonight.

I ran into celeb-coach Brad Gilbert -- the man who resurrected Andre Agassi's career and led Andy Roddick to his only Grand Slam -- and asked him for his thoughts on how to beat the rarely beatable Roger Federer.

"I coach [Andy] Murray, so the advice is in here," he said, tapping his head. "Won't give that away."

Was there anything he could tell us? Anything at all?

"No. Not about somebody that my guy can potentially play. I don't want [Federer] to read about it. Andy might have to play against him, so I don't want him to see or read nothing."

Okay!