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US Open 2009 1st Round Results

Some of the famous players who qualified for 2nd round of US Open 2009 are listed below. More detailed list can be seen on US Open official website.

Elena Dementieva won Rogers Cup 2009

Elena Dementieva defeated Maria Sharapova 6-4 6-3 to win the 14th title of her career and 3rd of 2009 at the Rogers Cup at Centre Court, Rexall Centre in Toronto. Rogers Cup is one of the biggest titles that Elena has won. Congratulations Elena!

Dementieva also became the second consecutive Russian to win Rogers Cup, as fans were treated to fabulous tennis in the event’s first all-Russian final. Dementieva also raised her career head-to-head record with Sharapova to 3-8.

It was a long match, just over 2 hours and Elena was playing a player who was fighting until the end. Elena now leads the US Open Series standings and the only player who can stop her is Flavia Pennetta if she wins New Haven.

For Dementieva, it’s another significant accomplishment on her career resume, with a Grand Slam title as the only real challenge left. For now, she is simply thrilled to be a champion at Rogers Cup. This victory worth a lot for Dementieva as she moved back to her #4 position in the ranking which was overtook by Jelena Jankovic on the previous week. Elena will now take a week off and her next tournament will be the 4th and final Grand Slam of the year at the US Open and she will be going in as one of the favourites.

Competitors yet afraid of Federer

Roger Federer can have misplaced his position at the top of the rankings but he stays a tremendously formidable adversary, his rivals said.

The Swiss star has not succeeded to win a tournament in this year and smashed a racquet in an out of character outburst in Miami.

The world number one Rafeal Nadal said, “He’s completed a Grand Slam final and two Master Series semis.”

And on the other hand world number two Djokovic said, “He gained it all for four years and now he loses and misses a few he’s not in crisis”.

I did detect it strange that he cracked his racquet at Miami, he who always keeps peaceful. But these things occur when you are disturbed on the court,” added the Serbian.

Federer, 27, has won 13 Grand Slam occasions but only one, last year’s US Open, out of the last six. Nadal exchanged Federer at the top of the rankings last August, and the Swiss player has never defeated him at a Grand Slam event outside of SW19.

The usually reserved Federer burst into tears after losing to Nadal in the Australian Open final in February, giving the critics with advance ammunition that the Swiss player’s game was in refuse. France’s Gilles Simon has crushed Federer on each of the two events they have met, but the Frenchman was similarly admiring as Nadal and Djokovic. “For me, on a good day, he still is the excellent player in the world,” he said.

Breaking ranks, Fernando Verdasco of Spain proposed Federer was struggling psychologically with having to accept he was no more as prevalent as he had once been.

Two years before he was winning and gaining everything. Now, since the start of the year, he has been crushed by Nadal, Djokovic and Andy Murray. Psychologically it is not easy to manage. Federer is due to start his clay court season in Monte Carlo against Italian Andreas Seppi on Wednesday.

Kim Clijsters once again in professional tennis

On the Thursday former tennis player of Belgium Kim Clijsters declared her return into the professional and competitive tennis approximately two years after retiring from the sport at just 23 years old.

Kim said in a press conference at her hometown “I intend to play in the US Open and about surely in the tournaments at Cincinnati early August, my first official tournament back and Tornoto”. She further said “I have been involved in practicing on a usual and regular basis with my training partner Wim Fissette and by physical coach Sam Verslegers, frequently as much as six hours in a day.

Kim who is the right hander, has a wonderful and marvelous tennis background included rewards and many achievements during his stay in tennis. Famous for her trademark splits suspicious play, she won 34 WTA tournaments and 11 doubles’ crowns including the 2005 US Open title when she beaten the French player Mary Pierce 6-3, 6-1 at Flushing Meadows. She also won the women’s season ending tour championship title conducted in 2002 and 2003.

Kim misplaced four Grand Slam finals particularly the 2003 French Open and US Open championship matches, as well as the 2004 Australian Open to compatriot and rival Justine Henin, who has also since retired. In August 2003 she got the top world rankings with a record of 427 wins against 104 defeats as well as having the extraordinary difference of holding the number one spot in both singles and doubles in 2003.

But handicapped by a series of injuries and keen to begin a family with new husband Brian Lynch, an American basketball player, she unexpectedly declared her retirement in May 2007 at just 23 years old.

At now 25, Clijsters is approximately two years younger than Williams and has time on her side in maybe retrieving the world No.1 ranked and including to her Grand Slam accumulation. What it occurs after blushing Meadows in beginning September, However, depends on more than a few factors, she insisted.

She said “I will have to get stock of how I supervise to unite my family condition with life on the circuit, I am a mother and a wife after all, and also we will have to see how I come out of it all physically.”

Clijsters will not be one of those players who need time to off separately to have a baby and then effort a return back to the route. A very close friend of Clijsters Lindsay Davenport former World No. 1 did similarly in 2007 even though she never officially and formally declared she was retiring. Last year the American prepared a dramatic return to the WTA Tour circuit winning four tournaments before moving to the sidelines again in January after announcing that she was pregnant once again.

By crushing Murray, Rafael Nadal achieved Indian Wells ATP title

To win the Indian wells ATP Master Title the world honored and one of the most poplar tennis player Rafael Nadal beaten the Andy Murray of Scotland by 6-1, 6-2 and won the Master series title of Indian Wells.

As in the final of women that predated it, the men’s championship match was arranged and played in whirling winds that had both players scrambling.

Nadal, the dominating Australian Open champion defied hard, impractical circumstances and situations to imprison the crown in the California desert for the second time after triumphing here in 2007. But Nadal, who began the tournament as the highest seed for the initial time after Roger Federer came and joined in as the number one the past five years restrained his total attention and focus to achieve the good job accomplished in one hour and 20 minutes.

Nadal prescribed “In fact I played a really good match with those conditions and situations”. “Andy could not play his best likely because of the situation, conditions and circumstances but I feel that I done my best to achieve the goal and played a really good performances in the whole match, moving very well. He further said that, I never made my legs stop during the whole match and I think that was the key of my success today.

In the meanwhile Murray seemed incapable to achieve to grips with the state of affairs. Murray agreed with Nadal while Nadal saying “I imagine I accepted a little bit improved and superior than him the conditions today.

Murray said by expressing his opinion after finishing the match “Rafa treated with it very well and better”. He strokes the ball clearly and appeared to obtain himself in better and exact positions than I did.

“You don’t unavoidably want to be doing a whole lot of opposing and running,” Murray added. “You want to be in the best position possible to hit each ball, and I wasn’t.” in spite of the conquer, world number four Murray leaves California closing in on world number three Novak Djokovic, whose title defence here ended with a quarter-final loss to American Andy Roddick.

Murray defeated Federer to make his place in the semis championship giving himself a shot at a third title of 2009 to go with those he won in Doha and Rotterdam. Murray’s performance made slow due to the illness since those successes, withdrawing from the quarter-finals in Dubai and skipping Davis Cup.

Under the conditions, he expressed, reaching in the final was a very good achievement.

“I don’t feel that I m frustrated just now with how the week went, because I wasn’t waiting and expecting to do that well,” he said. “Today was not my best day, but I’ll definitely get over it. I’m guessing I’m not going to play in those conditions each week.”

Nadal was playing in his third final in four starts this season, including his five-set Aussie Open triumph over Federer and a loss to Murray in Rotterdam. Nadal also lost to Murray in the semi-finals of the US Open last September, but the Spaniard said against the Briton that he wasn’t out for revenge.

“Andy was the only big top player I didn’t win against this year, so it’s an important win for me. But the most important thing for me is to win the title, not the opponent.”