It was another day of the expected and predictable outcome at the 2014 US Open for the top seeds in men’s side of the draw at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. Novak Djokovic continued to impress with his second consecutive dominant performance, dropping all of seven games in his dispatching of Sam Querrey in just under an hour and a half on court.

The No. 1 seed was in complete control from start to finish of his 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 win and seemed to almost be toying with his American Counterpart during portions of their match. As much as the seven-time Grand Slam winner was struggling heading into the year’s final major, he has clearly found his game and looks to be playing as well as he has at any point during the current season.

Milos Raonic would join him in round number four following his straight sets victory over Victor Estrella Burgos, though the big man had a little more trouble than most were anticipating…needing a trio of tiebreakers to dispose of the thirty-four year old Dominican. As uneven as the Canadian’s performance may have been, it was not as though he was pushed in any way shape or form and in all honesty, he barely looked to have even broken a sweat.

Raonic did what he had to do in order to advance but he will need to much better from here on in, as the No. 5 seed will step up a couple of weight classes in round in his next match, when he takes on Japan’s Kei Nishikori. The No. 10 seed has looked good in his return to action after spending some time on the sidelines due to injury and will most certainly be looking to avenge his Round of Sixteen loss to the hard-serving Canadian during their head-to-head showdown at Wimbledon earlier this summer.

Teenager Nick Kyrgios took center stage at Arthur Ashe Stadium during the evening session, going toe-to-toe with Tommy Robredo in what was a fairly entertaining match.  After jumping out to a 5-1 lead over the No. 16 seed before the match was even twenty minutes old, the talented Australian would hit a wall over the next three sets, falling to the hard-working Spaniard 6-3, 3-6, 6-7(4), 3-6. The youngster did manage to bring the crowd to their feet on more than a couple of occasions with his shot making abilities but in the end he was no match for thirty-two year old.

Andy Murray was another one of top seeds to make his way into the second week of action in Flushing Meadows, thanks to a solid showing against Andrey Kuznetsov on route to his 6-1, 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 victory. While the former US Open champ appeared to have “cramping issues” kick in during set number three, the No. 8 seed righted the ship in time to send the young Russian home in an orderly fashion.

Unfortunately for John Isner, he would not be so lucky. The No. 13 seed dropped a third consecutive contest to No. 22 seed Philipp Kohlschreiber…all three coming in the third round of the US Open. It was your typical workman-like performance from the ATP Tour vet, though he managed to pull off the upset in rather surprising fashion, taking all three sets from the towering American via the tiebreaker…an area in which the No. 13 seed tends to generally excel at.

Other seeds advancing included France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who looked solid in bouncing Spaniard Pablo Carreño Busta in straight sets 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. While No. 3 seed Stan Wawrinka had the easiest day of all, as the defending Australian Open Champion had a walkover following Blaz Kavcic’s withdrawal due to injury and will now take on Robredo in the Round of Sixteen.