US Open pays tribute on 25th anniversary of 9/11

The Arthur Ashe Stadium glowed light blue from dusk until dawn as the US Open marked the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

American flags were flown at half-mast as New York remembered the 2,977 people who died when hijackers crashed passenger jets into the Twin Towers in Manhattan on that day in 2001.

That year's US Open had concluded just two days earlier, with Lleyton Hewitt winning the men's singles title.

American player James Blake had lost in the second round that year and was in Augusta, Georgia, on Tuesday, 11 September.

But the New York-born future world number four says the day "shattered the guise of safety" felt by Americans and many professional tennis players.

"It was something that I just couldn't believe could happen in the States," Blake told BBC Sport.

"I don't know if we were all naive, or living under the guise of safety and feeling that everything was going to be OK, but it kind of shattered that for a while.

"There was a lot of panic, at every level - whether it be from the highest of highs in the political world to the people on the ground, to everyone around Ground Zero."