By Lauren Lynch Photo Credit: Natasha Peterson/ Corleve
(September 8, 2011) After two days of a rain delay, the tension was building with three American men left in the draw starting Thursday morning at the US Open. Alas, we will not see Donald Young move on to the quarterfinals but the USA crowd can put their hopes in Andy Roddick and John Isner.
Britain’s Andy Murray got his revenge on the young American after losing to him in the first round of this year’s BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells with a straight sets win in an hour and 58 minutes.
"He came out there and played solid the way that I've seen him always play, you know. Didn't miss much, didn't give you much, made you feel under pressure pretty much the whole time. I didn't execute, and if you don't execute against a player of that caliber, you're going to lose pretty bad," Young said of Murray.
The match ended with a score of 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 with the World No. 4 on top of his serve today and Young hitting 53 unforced while not winning on his serve 60 percent of the time. Potentially nerves and the wait affected the World No. 84’s game.
Young admitted, "Yeah, probably, you know, to get up every day, getting ready to play and not playing, it's kind of emotionally draining. Not so much physically. You're still waking up early. But, yeah, I mean, for me it probably bothered me quite a bit."
Murray showed his experience on the hard courts of the Grand Slam in which he made it to the finals in 2008 and fell to Roger Federer. His 21-year-old opponent can leave with his best performance yet at a major and the confidence of beating top-ranked players and improving his record to 49 wins to 29 losses over the last 12 months.
He proudly stated, "[W]inning my first ever five set match in a tiebreak in the fifth, and also coming back a couple days later and solidifying a win in the next match relatively or convincing, not easy in three sets. So that was pretty big for me."
Murray will play either John Isner or Gilles Simon in the quarterfinals.