 Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 05 Sep 2006 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 05 Sep 2006 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 05 Sep 2006 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 05 Sep 2006 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 05 Sep 2006 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 05 Sep 2006 |
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| 05 Sep 2006 - Flushing Meadows, New York - Eleanor Preston | |
| Rain halts Fabbiano’s progress |
Nobody was happy to see the rain clouds move in over Flushing Meadows on Tuesday, wiping some matches off the schedule altogether and halting some others mid-way through. Spare a thought, though, for Italy’s Thomas Fabbiano, who romped through the first set against Jurgen Zopp of Estonia without losing a game, only to see the heavens open and delay his progress to the third round.
“It would have been nice to have carried on but then you never know what’s going to happen in the second set,” said Fabbiano, who is blogging on www.itfjuniors.com this week, alongside American Julia Cohen. “I started really well. I’ve played him before and I know he plays aggressively. I knew if I stayed aggressive against him it would work well.”
There were, however a lucky few who managed to get their matches finished before the forecast rains arrived to disrupt play for the third time during this year’s US Open. Top seed Martin Klizan of Slovakia enjoyed a 6-1, 7-6 win over American wildcard Bradley Klahn, proving that his junior grand slam form is not confined to Roland Garros, where he won the title in May. Second seed Jonathan Eysseric of France knocked out Philip Bester, the Canadian who Klizan beat in the final in Paris. Eysseric had to fight hard to ease past Bester 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.
Former junior Australian Open champion and home favourite Donald Young, seeded fourth in New York, picked up a tidy 6-1, 6-1 first round victory over Jaak Poldma of Estonia, winner of last week’s Canadian Open. Young plays Fernando Romboli of Brazil, who was a 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 winner over the USA’s Drew Daniel.
The inclement weather meant only five matches were completed the girls’ competition. Thirteenth seeded Canadian Sharon Fichman wrapped up a speedy win to avoid being held up overnight. Fichman dispatched Mallory Cecil of the USA 6-4, 6-1. Belarussian Ksenia Milevskaya; Slovakia’s Kristina Kucova; Katerina Vankova of the Czech Republic and Petra Martic of Croatia were the day’s other winners.
The disruption to Tuesday’s order of play, should make Wednesday a bumper day in the juniors, with a host of singles and doubles matches being held over and added to an already full Wednesday schedule. Weather forecasters were optimistic that the rain will have moved on by the time play is scheduled to get underway at 11am on Wednesday. Fabbiano, for one, will be hoping to pick up where he left off.
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