Rain pushes U.S. Open men's final to Monday
Tennis fans wait for the rain to stop at the 2010 US Open Men's Championship, Sunday. (Sept. 12, 2010) Credit: Newsday/ J. Conrad Williams Jr.
Rain postponed Sunday's Rafael Nadal-Novak Djokovic match at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, bumping the U.S. Open men's championship final to a 15th day for the third consecutive year.
Tournament officials rescheduled the match for 4 p.m. Monday at Arthur Ashe Stadium, following a 3 p.m. resumption of the women's doubles final.
In that match, No. 2 seed Liezel Huber and Nadia Petrova were leading sixth-seeded Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova 6-2, 4-6, 5-4 when light rain stopped play in midafternoon.
Also moved to 3 p.m. Monday on Court 11 were two matches in the wheelchair division.
Sunday's tickets will be honored.
In both 2008 and 2009, rain on the Open's final weekend delayed the men's final by a day. In only one other year (1987) since the tournament moved to Flushing Meadows in 1978 was the championship played on the tournament's third Monday.
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