Hey guys, I have a second in between my semifinal and final here in New
Me and Elena Dementieva were the winners of th 2009 Olympus US Open Series
Haven so I thought I’d send out a blog entry. New Haven has been a blast, and knowing that I had a chance to capture the Olympus US Open Series heightened my anticipation for the tournament. I had bye first round before facing Marc Gicquel and Bjorn Phau in the second and third rounds. Both gave me tough battles and proved to be worthy opponents, making me sweat out several crucial battles in each match. When I finally won match point against Bjorn I knew I had accomplished something I never thought I could this soon; I had won the Olympus US Open Series!
Knowing I had already clinched my goal at the tournament had eased the pressure one would normally feel against the top seed at a tournament, in this case, world number 8 Nikolay Davydenko. In what turned out to be one of the more back and forth matches of my summer, I notched my third top 10 win of 2009 with a 6-3 3-6 6-4 victory.
The rains came and cancelled play on Friday, so I got to go see Taylor Swift in concert with Dan, it was an incredible performance. This morning the tournament shifted us indoors where I defeated Argentine Jose Acasuso in a clean battle. Now I await the winner of Igor Andreev and Fernando Verdasco, before heading to Flushing for the much anticipated US Open!
Sam