NEW YORK, SEP 4 (AP/UNB) - Andy Murray made short work of another opponent at the U.S. Open on Friday as the top players dominated and asserted their title claims at the season's last Grand Slam event. Murray beat Jamaican Dustin Brown 7-5, 6-3, 6-0, while Spanish pair Fernando Verdasco and David Ferrer also cruised through in straight sets.

All nine men's seeds in action Friday progressed to the third round.

The women's draw was almost as predictable, with Kim Clijsters, Sam Stosur and Francesca Schiavone all winners, along with former No.1 Ana Ivanovic and Elena Dementieva.

The fourth-seeded Murray is seeking to make his second U.S. Open final in three years. He won this year's U.S. Open Series title for lead-up events, which means he could earn up to an extra $1 million
in prize money if he wins the tournament.

The dreadlocked Brown pushed him to 5-5 in the first set of the match Friday, but Murray won 14 of the next 17 games. The entire match lasted 1 hour, 25 minutes and the third set went just 18
minutes.

Verdasco had an even easier time, breezing past Adrian Mannarino of France, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. Compatriot Ferrer was also relatively untroubled in beating Benjamin Becker of Germany, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.

Mikhail Youzhny won to set up a third-round clash with John Isner, who progressed along with another big-serving American Sam Querrey to raise hopes of a local challenger after the early
elimination of Andy Roddick.

Isner, striving to be known for more than winning the longest tennis match in history, reached the third round by beating Marco Chiudinelli of Switzerland 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4. "I don't want that to be the lasting image of my career," the towering Isner said. "So that's up to me to make it not that way. It's up to me to do well in big tournaments, tournaments such as this."

Querrey as a 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 winner over Marcel Granollers of Spain.

There were no upsets in women's third-round play, other than, perhaps, the fact that Kim Clijsters lost the first three games of her match before coming back to defeat No. 27 Petra Kvitova 6-3,
6-0.

Stosur beat Sara Errani 6-2, 6-3 while the highlight was Schiavone's back-to-the-net, between-the-legs shot in her 6-1, 7-5 victory over Alona Bondarenko - nearly identical to what Roger Federer has done each of the past two years at the U.S. Open. "I'd like to see it again," Schiavone said. "I'm curious."

Ivanovic had a 7-5, 6-0 win over Virginie Razzano while Dementieva won 7-5, 6-2 against No.24 Daniela Hantuchova - the highest-seeded player in either singles draw to lose Friday.

There was a rain delay of less than half an hour when the outer edges of Hurricane Earl made a passing appearance. But otherwise, play carried on under gray clouds and temperatures that refreshingly stayed below 30 degrees.