Weather holds up play in US
September 12th 2009 08:07
RAIN continues to wreak havoc at the US Open and tournament officials announced today that the year’s final grand slam will enter a third week.
The men’s singles and women’s doubles finals will now be played on Monday (American time).
Inclement weather washed out the entire day’s play overnight.
The intriguing men’s quarter-final clash between Spanish former world No.1 Rafael Nadal and 2007 Australian Open runner-up Fernando Gonzalez enters its third day tonight.
Nadal took the first set 7-6 (4) and leads 3-2 on serve in the second-set tiebreak.
Gonzalez’s winner count has already reached 31 – opposed to 36 unforced errors – while Nadal’s numbers are a more conservative 16 and 11.
But that is exactly how Gonzalez has to play – and no doubt will continue to – if he is to beat the Spaniard for a fourth time in their 10th meeting and end a five-match losing streak in their head-to-head clashes.
The Chilean will have to win the second set when play resumes because Nadal is a brilliant frontrunner.
Argentine world No.6 Juan Martin del Potro, who will play the victor of the Nadal-Gonzalez contest in the semi-finals, has cooled his heels since thumping Croatian Marin Cilic 4-6 6-3 6-2 6-1 two days ago.
It will be interesting to see whether the delay between matches has a positive or negative influence on del Potro when he finally returns to the court competitively.
The women’s semi-finals will also, hopefully, take centre stage tonight.
Teenagers Caroline Wozniacki and Yanina Wickmayer are up first, with the former a heavy favourite, before the blockbuster clash between American superstar Serena Williams and Belgian comeback queen Kim Clijsters.
I would love to see Clijsters, or Aussie Kim as she was once known when she was dating Lleyton Hewitt, emerge victorious, but my head says Serena will be too good.
The men’s semi-finals are scheduled for two days’ time.
Swiss world No.1 Roger Federer, a five-time reigning Flushing Meadows champion, and Serbian world No.4 Novak Djokovic will face off in the other final-four match-up.
The men’s singles and women’s doubles finals will now be played on Monday (American time).
Inclement weather washed out the entire day’s play overnight.
The intriguing men’s quarter-final clash between Spanish former world No.1 Rafael Nadal and 2007 Australian Open runner-up Fernando Gonzalez enters its third day tonight.
Nadal took the first set 7-6 (4) and leads 3-2 on serve in the second-set tiebreak.
Gonzalez’s winner count has already reached 31 – opposed to 36 unforced errors – while Nadal’s numbers are a more conservative 16 and 11.
Spaniard Rafael Nadal won the first set of his rain-interrupted quarter-final clash with Chilean Fernando Gonzalez.
But that is exactly how Gonzalez has to play – and no doubt will continue to – if he is to beat the Spaniard for a fourth time in their 10th meeting and end a five-match losing streak in their head-to-head clashes.
The Chilean will have to win the second set when play resumes because Nadal is a brilliant frontrunner.
Argentine world No.6 Juan Martin del Potro, who will play the victor of the Nadal-Gonzalez contest in the semi-finals, has cooled his heels since thumping Croatian Marin Cilic 4-6 6-3 6-2 6-1 two days ago.
It will be interesting to see whether the delay between matches has a positive or negative influence on del Potro when he finally returns to the court competitively.
American Serena Williams is hoping to halt Belgian Kim Clijsters' US Open run at the semi-final stage.
The women’s semi-finals will also, hopefully, take centre stage tonight.
Teenagers Caroline Wozniacki and Yanina Wickmayer are up first, with the former a heavy favourite, before the blockbuster clash between American superstar Serena Williams and Belgian comeback queen Kim Clijsters.
I would love to see Clijsters, or Aussie Kim as she was once known when she was dating Lleyton Hewitt, emerge victorious, but my head says Serena will be too good.
The men’s semi-finals are scheduled for two days’ time.
Swiss world No.1 Roger Federer, a five-time reigning Flushing Meadows champion, and Serbian world No.4 Novak Djokovic will face off in the other final-four match-up.
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