Day 5: The heavens a'restin'

Like bono-fan has most graciously recapitulated, the previous two-three days have been the most atrocious weather at RG. Most of the tennis players have been complaining of the breeze that tends to sweep away the clay from the court and leave behind a harder concreter surface where it's harder to slide, while in other cases rain has cancelled so many matches. Nadal and Clisters played today and must do the same tomorrow, since both their matches were delayed by a day.

So some of the results for the day:

- Gaudio beat Juanqi in a three-setter - the scoreline tells of a close battle, 7-5 7-5 7-6(7), but ofcourse it has summed up ferrero's career this past year, now, hasn't it? Even since being out from the tour with chickenpox a couple of years ago, juanqi's never really come back. and since federer and nadal have dominated the game in the way they have, it's sad that ferrero's going down without much of a fight. I still ADORE the guy. wimbledon, here we come?

- Elena "Serve? Huh?" Dementieva beat kutuzova. what kind of friggin name is that, kutuzova, you ask? mind you - this 17-year old Ukrainian has got GAME. give her a year on the tour, a chance to grow stronger physically and mentally, and a maturity in her shot selection, and we'll have another sharapova on hand. gosh, she even looks like sharapova (and grunts like her too). bonofan, ofcourse, is most delighted with this :P

- Nadal annihilates the inconspicuous kevin kim the rather harmless american who looked as if swatting a fly might be asking too much of him. Nadal didn't play anywhere near his best, but come now, did he really need to? he got the job done, no? and a happy birthday to him for tommorrow! he turns 20 (thank you GOD) and takes on paul henri mathieu which will be the match of the day!

- Davydenko beats Moya. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

- Martina Hingis, beat Zuzana Ondraskova without breaking into a sweat. Hingis is in optimal form out there and all of us can't wait for the potential v. williams-hingis quarterfinal in the making. Venus, also, playing magnificently. overpowering sprem in a quick 2-setter.

- Wow! so the american men DO know how to play on clay! James Blake, hero of all heros, outs that nasty Almagro 6-7(5) 6-2 6-4 6-4. Nothing gives me more pleasure then seeing almagro go down. And yes, almagro is the same person who actually had a laugh with his box, during a Valencia semi, when marat rolled his ankle and was reeling in pain. Marat did not shake his hand at the end of the match.

- Robredo, Ferrer and Dinara going strong!! The three dark horses of the tourny so far.

- Kiefer retires to Berdych. Muahaha.

Tommorrow's cast: Hantuchova (abid's eyecandy :P), Nadal vs mathieu, blake versus monfils, Clijsters, Hewiit, Ljuby, and Hingis.