Thursday, July 23, 2009

Rain washes out tennis play at Indianapolis


Steady rain has washed out play at the ATP Indianapolis Championships.

American Taylor Dent is still waiting to play his opening contest due to the late arrival of Brazilian opponent Marcos Daniel. Daniel played last week in Colombia.

The rest of the field is into the second round, but there was no action on day four of the first event of the US Open summer run-up season.

American third seed Sam Querrey was the highest-ranked player stranded as his next match is with local hero Rajeev Ram.

The pair met less than a fortnight ago in the grass-court final at Newport, Rhode Island, where lucky loser Ram came from a set down to sweep to the surprise title.

In other postponed matches, Russian fourth seed Igor Kunitsyn was facing Wayne Odesnik of the US, American qualifier Jesse Levine was taking on French seventh seed Marc Gicquel and eighth seed Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan was playing American John Isner, recently recovered from a bout with glandular fever.

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