Day - 10 : Sealed off by Rafa, Aza; The wracking of the nerves continue

100 minutes long, lasted the fiery manifesto of Rafael Nadal. That was enough time to conquer upon the fellow Spaniard, the one who ousted Federer in straight sets, in a mere 6-0, 6-2, 6-2. Dropping just 4 games to the finish, Nadal just bettered his hard courts record a 20-0, and set up a clash with the eight seed Richard Gasquet who contested with Ferrer another Spaniard! For 3 hours and 30 minutes to breathe a 5 set victory over the 4th seed. Nadal and many others claimed it was his “best match” that he played in this tournament and making a stride ahead into the semi-finals, for the fourth time in his career. Day 11 brings to you the remaining two quarter finals where Stanislas Wawrinka the face that astonished quite a many, would face the defending Champion Andy Murray in order to find a way to the semi-finals. He beat Tommy Haas; he beat the resurging Champion Lleyton Hewitt, but now comes the stupendous trouble of Novak Djokovic. Mikhail Youzhny knew it would be a beating a swarm of Champions if he wished to pushed his entrance into the second week. He has sincerely done well to have come this far, but projections of shallow hope pollute the meadows which go in the Russian’s favour. His fate will be decided at the Ashe this evening. We have a highly probable re-encounter of the last year’s final where Djokovic and Murray will battle if each of them win’s their quarters.

While at the women’s pedestal, it was Azarenka who vanquished Hantuchova in an easy 6-2, 6-3 game. The second seed did drop her service thrice but thwarted several break points in order to obtain that number on the board. She might just as well have to brush her ends up as she faces, Flavia Penetta the romping Italian en-route to the Finals. Penetta KO’ed the tenth seed Roberta Vinci in straight sets 6-3, 6-2 to set the matchup.

Noting worthy, would be that while Serena is crumbling down players in her Singles line up, she teams up with Sister Venus to do the same at the Doubles’ tournament. They play their quarter finals tonight, while Sania Mirza from India teamed with Jie Zheng the neighbouring Chinese, entered the Semi Finals of the Flushing tournament.