With a respite from the rain that caused Wednesday to be washed out and the morning to be wet, the fourth round matches were all put on courts at the same time to get the fourth round complete. Unfortunately, at Louis Armstrong, Roddick noticed a bulge in the court with water coming up. This was
Due to rain, all men's matches are being scrubbed. The original plan was to play all fourth round matches and two of the four quarterfinals. The US Open still hopes to play all women's quarterfinals this evening so there would be a day rest on Thursday and semis played on Friday. There is still some
With the washout of play on Tuesday, the game plan was this: play all the fourth round on Wednesday, first thing, then play the men's quarterfinals late in the day. The rain stopped enough around noonish that 3 of the 4 men's matches were started. On slate were Roddick vs. Ferrer, Muller vs. Nadal, and
The remainder of the fourth round matches were expected to be played today due to rain from Hurricane Lee that hit the Gulf Coast and has been working its way north. Roger Federer must be thrilled that he got his match done quickly last night and that Monaco was in no position to come back
In three matches, Juan Monaco had dropped only one set, to the venerable Tommy Haas. So he had to be feeling pretty good about his game and giving Roger Federer a good match. Little did he expect that Roger Federer would have his best performance of the tournament. It's intriguing to watch Federer. When it's
Let's start with the first fourth-round match of the day. Janko Tipsarevic played Juan Carlos Ferrero. The two have met twice but not in four years. Ferrero won both encounters but both times they met, the match was close. It was expected that this would be a long match too. And boy was it! The
Now that we're done with week one of the US Open, let's look at each of the fourth round matches and the form of the players. Djokovic vs. Dolgopolov The two have never played each other. Djokovic has only had one serious match, and that was Nikolay Davydenko. He wasn't pushed in either of his
2008 was a good year for three players: Andy Murray, who broke into the top four, Gilles Simon, who broke into the top ten, and Juan Martin del Potro, who did the same. Indeed, all of them started their breakthrough in the summer. Murray had a quarterfinal encounter with Nadal which he lost, then beat
Donald Young had hoped to reach this point much sooner. But better late than never. Young followed up his improbable victory over the number 2 Swiss, Stan Wawrinka, last year's quarterfinalist. In a way, Young caught a break. Juan Ignatio Chela is a crafty veteran, but he lacks a ton of power. The guy knows
Roger Federer hadn't looked all that solid in the two Masters 1000 events leading to the US Open. Even so, I felt that he had time to fix things up for the US Open. He's always targeted the Slams and played cleaner tennis in the Slams. His opponent in the third round was Marin Cilic.
