Russell Fuller looks forward to the US Open, his first Grand Slam as BBC tennis correspondent.

We're in the city that never sleeps - where jet lag is simply not an option - and Andy Murray just can't escape the attention of the US TV networks.

He's had a hit in front of the cameras with children affected by Hurricane Sandy, and filled a prime breakfast spot on CBS, but has now turned his mind very decisively to the task of defending a Grand Slam title for the first time in his career.

It's a great time to be starting as tennis correspondent, and a great city in which to begin. Take a look at the view from our commentary box, which is perched behind 22 500 people at the very back of the Arthur Ashe Stadium Court.

There are no calls of "Quiet please ladies and gentlemen" from the chair umpire here: there's constant chatter, music and entertainment at change of ends, and all as the jets from La Guardia airport rumble overhead.

You get plenty of bang for your buck here. Play starts at 11am, and one match last year didn't finish until 2.26am the following morning. So we are braced for long days, and cheese with everything - it's not a great place in which to start a diet.

We will have commentary on 5 live sports extra on virtually every day session. Coverage gets underway at 4pm, and some of the best night matches will be on Up All Night from 1am.

We will also bring you at least one of the men's semi-finals, plus both the men's and women's final live on 5 live in a couple of weekends time. Martina Navratilova, John Lloyd and Jeff Tarango will all be part of our commentary team.

David Law, Vassos Alexander and Philip Studd will be flying in soon to join the team, and as long as we don't upset the First Lady during her weekend visit, we will be ready to go from 4 o'clock on Monday afternoon.

Hear commentary and coverage of the US Open on 5 live and 5 live sports extra from Monday 26 August.

5 live's new tennis correspondent Russell Fuller looks ahead to the tennis circuit post-Wimbledon.

Whenever people have stopped to wish me well as tennis correspondent, they have commented on what big shoes I have to fill. And of course they are right: both literally and metaphorically. Jonathan Overend has done an exceptional job covering the last few years of the Henman/Rusedski era, and then chartering Andy Murray's rise to the very top in New York last September.

It has been an extraordinary time to cover men's tennis, and even if Roger Federer can no longer bend matches to his will with such regularity, the years ahead promise much more excitement.

With a little bit of luck, Murray and Novak Djokovic will be at the peak of their powers for another 5 years, and even if his knees don't allow him to produce the same level of consistency all year round, Rafael Nadal could still end up with a Grand Slam tally very close to Federer's.

There will always be plenty to talk about when Laura Robson is in action. She has bags of potential, and don't forget that until her recent bout of glandular fever, Heather Watson's ranking was virtually identical. There is now a much bigger bunch of British teenagers making some promising noises, and there will also be a new chief executive of the LTA to follow.

I have some very talented colleagues who will help me keep you up to date all year round. We will pop up at some very strange times of the day, and no doubt end up contributing once more to Dotun Adebayo's World Football phone-in while watching the Australian Open on the Rod Laver Arena.

I feel hugely privileged to be starting such a fabulous job, and am really excited about getting started at next month's US Open. Which is a good thing, because if you are not deliriously excitable at Flushing Meadows, they may not let you in.

Listen live to 5 live's Wimbledon coverage throughout the championships.

As we enter the second week of Wimbledon with two British players, at the time of writing, still involved in the singles draws, excitement moves up a notch or two in the 5 Live underground office at SW19.  And in the commentary boxes, beautifully positioned by the side of the show courts, those of us with the privilege of the describing the action know that some massive matches lie ahead in the next few days. 

Just like the players it's "one match at a time" but should Andy Murray - or Laura Robson for that matter - make the final, it will be the perfect end to my time as Tennis Correspondent for 5 Live, the station I've worked for since 1998.

I'm really sad to be giving up the job, which I've done for family reasons, and will leave with a very heavy heart.

I've made so many friends within the sport, people who are so passionate about the sport and what they do, and I've been so lucky to have been paid to go to amazing places to watch amazing athletes play amazing matches.

I didn't really want to talk about it much this Wimbledon but colleagues - well, mainly Nicky Campbell - keep mentioning it on-air and everywhere I go around the grounds someone somewhere has something to say, which is really touching.

I'm sure it's going to be quite an emotional week but for 5 live tennis coverage will continue in incredibly safe hands as I hand over to Mr Russell Fuller...

Jonathan Overend and the 5 live team broadcast full coverage of the second week of Wimbledon on 5 live and 5 live Sports Extra.