As another day at the big apple ends what thrills and spills happened?
One of the first matches of the day was a largely anticipated match between the former world number 1; Rafael Nadal and former number three David Nalbandian. Although Rafa was the favourite we had seen in the past that Nalbandian’s game could definitely trouble the Spaniard.
The match started off with Nalbandian playing world class tennis. He had obviously come out to try and blast Nadal of the court. Nalbandian had his chances in the first set but Nadal managed to claw his way back playing top tennis and won the set on the tie-break. He carried on playing top tennis throughout the match and won the match 7-6 6-1 7-5.
Young American hopeful Donald Young had the tough task of backing up his terrific victory against Stanislas Wawrinka against the 24th seed Juan Ignacio Chela.
Donald Young dismissed all critics by destroying the 24th seed in straight sets. Donald Young’s next opponent will be the British No1 Andy Murray. Speaking of the 4th seed Murray had the potential problem of the Spaniard Feliciano Lopez who famously was tweeted by Murray’s mother, Judy, “Deliciano”.
Murray started strongly with 14 straight points. It was a fine performance by the Brit and in less than two hours Murray beat Lopez 6-1 6-4 6-2. A very welcome win for nervous fans. Another piece of good news for Murray is that Juan Martin Del Potro, the 2009 champion, was defeated by the Frenchman Gilles Simon.
The first set was reasonably close but the Argentine managed to grind it out 6-4. But Gilles Simon is the 8th best player at coming back to win from a set down and he won the second and third 7-6 and 6-2. With Simon being one of the fittest men on tour and Del Potro still not quite at his best Simon won the final set 7-6 to reach the fourth round for the first time.
The last interesting fact from me, it is the first time since 2003 that 4 Americans have reached the fourth round of the US Open.
