This year, he's once again struggling to find any consistency at all.

"My whole career, so far, has been kind of like a roller coaster. Up and down," he said. "I need to figure out how to play a complete year at high-level tennis."

The 23-year-old American moved into the third round of the US Open with a confident 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 win Friday over Paul Goldstein. He will next play No. 14 Tommy Haas.

Ginepri made a surprise run at Flushing Meadows last year, going from an unseeded entry into the semis. He became the only man to play four consecutive five-set matches at the tournament in the Open era, beating Haas, Richard Gasquet and Guillermo Coria before losing to Andre Agassi.

But Ginepri has had trouble this year, winning only six matches in his first 15 tournaments through Wimbledon.

"At the beginning of the year, I think I took weeks for granted," he said.

Ginepri is 15-20 this year. He's played better of late, reaching the semifinals at Indianapolis, the quarterfinals at Los Angeles and the round-of-16 at the Cincinnati Master last month.

FACE IT
Andy Murray can tell more people are recognizing him at the US Open, and the 19-year Briton thinks he knows why.

He's fan friendly, plus his new coach is Brad Gilbert, once a tennis TV announcer and formerly the coach of Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick.

"I think I'm probably more popular this year partly because of Brad," Murray said Friday after a 6-0, 6-1, 6-1 win over Alessio Di Mauro. "Everybody loved Brad's commentating on TV. He's pretty big over here. I'm sure that's probably helped."

Murray pulled off a huge upset last month at the Cincinnati Masters, ending No. 1 Roger Federer's 55-match winning streak in North America.

At the US Open, Murray has held a pen almost as much as a racket.

"I think I'm probably one of the few players that at the end of the match, I try to sign as many autographs as possible," he said. "If you sign their autograph, the tennis ball, it makes them happy."

"If they stick it in your face and you just walk past them or you tell them to get out of the way, you're not going to like someone as much."

LATIN TRIBUTE
There will be a "Celebration of Latino Legends of Tennis" on Sunday at Louis Armstrong Stadium.

A documentary about Pancho Gonzalez, one of the game's greatest players and former brother-in-law of Andre Agassi, will be shown for the first time during the event, held during the US Open.

Other Latino tennis stars from the past and present that will be featured in the exhibition are Guillermo Vilas, Gabriela Sabatini, David Nalbandian from Argentina; Gustavo Kuerten and Maria Bueno from Brazil; Marcelo Rios from Chile, Pancho Segura from Ecuador; and Mary Joe Fernandez, Rosie Casals and Gonzalez, representing the Americans of Latin descent.

The US Tennis Association's Hispanic task force organised the event.