Sam Querrey and Venus Williams, the final Americans remaining in the 2010 U.S. Open singles draw, will both be in action on Day 9. Kim Clijsters and Rafael Nadal are also on Tuesday's schedule in Flushing Meadows.
2010 U.S. Open TV Schedule, Day 9: Who To Watch And Where To Watch Them
Tune in to ESPN2 from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. for live match coverage. According to the official TV schedule, Tennis Channel will be broadcasting from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., but will not include matches in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
After an eventful Day 8, here are a few matches worth checking out on Day 9:
Not before 1 p.m., Arthur Ashe
Fourth round, Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) vs. No. 20 Sam Querrey (USA)
America’s last hope! Querrey has a 1-0 career record against Wawrinka, who upset heavily favored Andy Murray in the third round. If Querrey wins -- I hope he does -- expect a flood of AMERICAN TENNIS IS BACK stories to counter ones like George Vecsey’s in The New York Times.
It’s Noah’s Ark time at the United States Open, with one Venus Williams and one Sam Querrey left amid the rising tide of Spaniards and Eastern Europeans.
About 4 p.m., Arthur Ashe
Quarterfinals, No. 6 Francesca Schiavone (ITA) vs. No. 3 Venus Williams (USA)
This is Williams’ 10th U.S. Open quarterfinal appearance. It’s crazy to think that broke through in New York 13 years ago, when she was still a teenager. After reaching the final in 1997, Venus graced the cover of Sports Illustrated. Here’s an excerpt from S.L. Price’s recap:
It’s good to wonder what Ashe would have made of this affair. The 1997 Open was, after all, a tournament that began on Althea Gibson’s 70th birthday with a tribute to Ashe during which his widow preached about “inclusion.” The event then hit the timing, and ratings, jackpot when long-awaited African-American phenom Venus Williams, now 17, abruptly took control of her vast skills, grabbed the women’s field by the throat and became the tournament’s first unseeded women’s finalist in the open era. Suddenly, tennis had a brilliant new talent-witty, intelligent and charismatic-a streetwise child of gang-plagued Compton, Calif., who could well be sports’ next Tiger Woods. “I would hope so,” Venus said. “He’s different from the mainstream, and in tennis I also am. I’m tall. I’m black. Everything’s different about me. Just face the facts.”
7 p.m., Arthur Ashe
Quarterfinals, No. 5 Samantha Stosur (AUS) vs. No. 2 Kim Clijsters (BEL)
Stosur, who lost to Schiavone in the French Open finals this spring, is coming off an incredible 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 victory over No. 12 Elena Dementieva in the third round. Stosur was down 5-3 in the third before storming back. It should be a tough one for Clijsters, who’s apparently a big fan of the Jersey Shore.
9 p.m., Arthur Ashe
Fourth round, No. 1 Rafael Nadal (ESP) vs. No. 23 Feliciano Lopez (ESP)
First the World Cup, now this. There are six Spaniards left in the draw.
“Probably the most difficult tournament for us, no?” Nadal told reporters the other day. “So that is very important news for Spanish tennis.”
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