Nobody with a lick of sense wants to play five sets of tennis today, not with on-court temperatures at the U.S. Open cracking 100 degrees. No. 8 Fernando Verdasco was bent on vengeance, however, and survived a miserable start to defeat Fabio Fognini, who knocked him out of Wimbledon in the first round earlier this summer, 1-6, 7-5, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3.
2010 U.S. Open First Round Result: Fernando Verdasco Exacts Some Wimbledon Revenge
Next up in the Most Dramatic Names Draw, Verdasco faces Adrian Mannarino of France.
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