CBSSports.com: While heat rages, Day 2 at Flushing Meadows is about survival

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By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange/CBSSports.com

NEW YORK -- The endless summer, tennis in the heat of the day and night, matches with athletes looking for shelter and service breaks, a U.S. Open that on the second day seemed destined never to close.

"Somebody in the stands over there kept saying, 'Hang on, hang in there,'" remembered Novak Djokovic. "So that's exactly what I did."

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