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2 months ago 08th Sep 12:41
Caroline Wozniacki overcame former U.S. Open champion and current French Open Champion Svetlana Kuznetsova to reach the quarter finals.
The nineteen year old has seen a dip in her form since winning the Eastboune title just before Wimbledon but has found her game at the crucial moment.
Despite losing the opening set to the more experienced Kuznetsova the young Russian battled back to seal a great win under the floodlights of Flushing Meadows.
But it was the performance of Melanie Oudin that was grabbing all of the headlines as her fairytale run at the Open continued.
The American teenager had already put out Elena Dementieva and Maria Sharapova on the way to her fourth round match up with Nadia Petrova.
Oudin was totally over powered and outplayed as she failed to hang on to a single service game, breaking Petrova's serve once was her only mark on the scoreboard, as Petrova breezed through the first set.
But the young American, with the crowd well and truly on her side battled back, taking the second set to a tie-break, before levelling the match.
Petrova struggled to maintain the form that had brought her the first set as her serve began to desert her.
And Oudin was there to take full advantage as she broke her opponent twice in the final set to seal a 1-6 7-6 (7-2) 6-3 and set up a quarter final encounter with Wozniacki.
After the match she spoke to the BBC saying: "It's kind of hard to explain how I've done it. There are no tears because I believed I could do it and it's like now I know that I do belong here.
"This is what I want to do and I can compete with these girls no matter who I'm playing. I have a chance against anyone."
In the other women's matches played yesterday Kateryna Bondarenko spent just forty seven minutes on court as she easily saw off Gisela Dulko 6-0 6-0.
She will now face Yanina Wickmayer who beat Petra Kvitova 4-6 6-4 7-5.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
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