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Yinette PerezUS Open Day 4 Halfway Summary
September 3rd 2009 22:13
So, we're halfway through the day and something pretty big has happened on the women's side, while the men's side has barely gotten on the courts. Roddick and Djokovic are scheduled to play later today, and more on that later.
On the Men's side, we had a couple of interesting matches involving American's. I saw some parts of these matches. Robert Kendrick lost to Tommy Haas, which isn't too surprising, but I was rooting for the American as always.
Americans Sam Querrey and Kevin Kim played earlier, and Sam Querrey won in four. He's going to play Robin Soderling, who advanced to the round after playing two games. His opponent retired pretty quickly. Soderling won the last two meetings with Querrey and made it to the Finals of the French and is famous for being the first person to beat Nadal at Roland Garros.
The big story is Jesse Witten on the men's side. He's ranked around 250 in the world and is in the 3rd round of the Open. His next match could be Djokovic, so there might not be too much of a chance of him going to the 4th, but even if it's not Djokovic, I saw Ball's first match (the person playing Djokovic tonight), and he's a pretty good player. He won convincingly at the end of his match.
Verdasco and Davydenko won a bit too easily, but I think they'll have more challenging rounds in the future (Verdasco is playing Tommy Haas next, which'll be a good match).
On the Women's side, the number 4 AND 5 seed are OUT. Dementieva (4) and Jankovic (5) both lost today, opening up the women's draw a bit. American Oudin (pictured above) beat Dementieva in a great match, and show of her will and determination. She fought off what looked to be a moderate to severe cramp in the thigh to beat the hardened veteran. Jankovic lost in a tiebreak, which I think was less a physical loss, and more a mental one. She just looked like she couldn't find her game at the end of the match.
So, later today, Maria Sharapova will play a very, very good young American, who might actually have a shot of winning. I'm putting my money on the American. If she wins, there'll be a match between two 17 year old Americans.
Right now, Robredo just won, and will hopefully play Blake, who's playing Rochus right now. I'll post later tonight summarizing the rest that happens.
Melanie Oudin
On the Men's side, we had a couple of interesting matches involving American's. I saw some parts of these matches. Robert Kendrick lost to Tommy Haas, which isn't too surprising, but I was rooting for the American as always.
Americans Sam Querrey and Kevin Kim played earlier, and Sam Querrey won in four. He's going to play Robin Soderling, who advanced to the round after playing two games. His opponent retired pretty quickly. Soderling won the last two meetings with Querrey and made it to the Finals of the French and is famous for being the first person to beat Nadal at Roland Garros.
The big story is Jesse Witten on the men's side. He's ranked around 250 in the world and is in the 3rd round of the Open. His next match could be Djokovic, so there might not be too much of a chance of him going to the 4th, but even if it's not Djokovic, I saw Ball's first match (the person playing Djokovic tonight), and he's a pretty good player. He won convincingly at the end of his match.
Verdasco and Davydenko won a bit too easily, but I think they'll have more challenging rounds in the future (Verdasco is playing Tommy Haas next, which'll be a good match).
On the Women's side, the number 4 AND 5 seed are OUT. Dementieva (4) and Jankovic (5) both lost today, opening up the women's draw a bit. American Oudin (pictured above) beat Dementieva in a great match, and show of her will and determination. She fought off what looked to be a moderate to severe cramp in the thigh to beat the hardened veteran. Jankovic lost in a tiebreak, which I think was less a physical loss, and more a mental one. She just looked like she couldn't find her game at the end of the match.
So, later today, Maria Sharapova will play a very, very good young American, who might actually have a shot of winning. I'm putting my money on the American. If she wins, there'll be a match between two 17 year old Americans.
Right now, Robredo just won, and will hopefully play Blake, who's playing Rochus right now. I'll post later tonight summarizing the rest that happens.
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