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Ryan Sweeting (BAH)

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

Sun-Yong Kim (KOR)

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

Alexa Glatch (USA)

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

Mihaela Buzarnescu (ROM)

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

Jeremy Chardy (FRA)

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

Viktoria Azarenka (BLR)

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 09 Sep 2005

09 Sep 2005 - Flushing Meadows - Eleanor Preston

Kim Stops Young To Set Up Sweeting Semi

Korea’s Sun-Yong Kim avenged his Australian Open final loss to World No.1 Donald Young by overcoming the American in the quarterfinals of the US Open. 18-year-old Kim, who is seeded sixth, ended Young’s hard-fought run to the last eight with a 76 26 76 victory.

Kim will face Ryan Sweeting in the semifinals after the Bahamian was a surprise 64 75 winner over third seed Leonardo Mayer of Argentina. Sweeting won their only previous match, on grass at Queens in June this year and sounded an optimistic note about his chances of making the final.

“Kim is a tough player, like everyone else in this draw but if I win the title I want to have done it the tough way so I can really get an idea of what level I’m at,” said Sweeting, who had to save five match-points in the first round against Carsten Ball of Australia.

Sweeting had to come from behind in both sets against Mayer, who led the first set 41 and the second 52 only to watch his lead clawed back by Sweeting, whose match against Kim will be his first grand slam semifinal. “It’s always been one of my strengths that, no matter what the score line is, I’m never out of the match. I have trained hard and I didn’t feel tired and that meant I could focus. When an opponent thinks he’s got me, I really like that because it’s when I play at my best. When I was down I told myself that if I was going to do something big in the juniors, then this was the place to do it. From then on I got back into the match.”

Sweeting trains in Fort Lauderdale at his coach Nicolas Guizar’s academy and put his success down to the hard work he has put in there in order to improve his record at the junior grand slams. “There’s nothing like this,” said Sweeting. “I’ve done pretty well in tournaments before but this is just an incredible feeling. I’m flying right now. After I won my match I just couldn’t stop smiling. It’s so good to feel that all my hard work is paying off.”

Wimbledon winner Jeremy Chardy of France won the battle of the grand slam champions against Roland Garros victor Marin Cilic of Croatia 46 64 62 to move through to the last four, where he’ll play Santiago Giraldo of Colombia. Giraldo was a 61 36 62 winner over Tim Smyczek of the USA.

American Alexa Glatch won through to her first grand slam semifinal thanks to a 60 64 victory over third-seeded Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova. “This is the first year I've played all the Grand Slams and I've gained a lot of experience from each one,” said Glatch, who plays Germany’s Nina Henkel in the last four. “I know what to expect in these kinds of situations now, and I think I'm really using that to my advantage.”

Henkel beat USA’s Elizabeth Plotkin 75 75 to earn her semifinal spot.

Top seed and reigning Australian Open champion Viktoria Azarenka moved through the semis when her doubles partner, New Zealand’s Marina Erakovic, retired with the Belarusian leading 52 in the first set after suffering spasms in her back.

“I knew she was injured because she pulled out of the doubles but I was playing well and I was ready to play a full match,” said Azarenka. “It was a surprise when she retired. It was disappointing not to be able to play the doubles with her because I have won three other grand slam doubles titles this year and I wanted to win the fourth but what can you do? She didn’t do it on purpose. The singles is more important to me and I want to look forward to my semifinal now. It’s been good so far but I don’t want to stop now.”

Azarenka will take on Mihaela Buzarnescu for a place in the final after the Romanian beat Belarus’ Olga Govortsova 62 76.

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