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Dent Supplies Excitement on Day of Relative Order


Taylor Dent and Ivan Navarro, in a classic throwback of serve-and-volleyers that started in the late afternoon and ended in darkness, played one of the most dramatic and entertaining matches of this United States Open from the opening volley until the fifth-set tie breaker.After 4 hours 12 minutes, Dent’s comeback from back surgery continued apace as he ousted Navarro with a stirring 6-4, 5-7, 6-7 (1), 7-5, 7-6 (9) victory.“I don’t know how it happened,” Dent said, “but it happened.”It happened, in part, with a barrage of volleys. There were 255 combined net approaches by the players, a staggering number in today’s world of baseline sluggers.As the drama mounted throughout the match, more and more fans converged on the Grandstand. Most of them cheered on Dent, who is returning to the Open for the first time since 2005 after three back surgeries shut him down for the last two years.Dent, who spent eight months in bed thinking about everything from religion to acquiring a real estate license, finally returned to the tour this year, albeit slowly.In the fifth-set tie breaker Navarro was serving for the match, but Dent hit a perfect backhand lob over Navarro that sat on the baseline. Then Dent appeared to have the match on his strings at 7-6, but he sent an easy forehand volley wide, causing him to scream a wicked invective at his misfortune as the crowd groaned.So the combatants battled on. Dent hit an ace up the middle to take a 10-9 lead and then hit an exquisite backhand return down the line as Navarro charged the net for the last time.Dent squatted down with his racket to his head and screamed a more joyous exclamation, before circling the court, slapping hands with fans and signing autographs for almost everyone who asked.For an encore, Dent will play Andy Murray in a third-round match that will generate a lot of attention.“I honestly don’t know how I’m going to fare against Andy,” Dent said. “But I will guarantee everybody this: If I lose, 6-0, 6-0, 6-0, I’m going to die fighting for every point. My execution isn’t at the level I would like going into a match playing Andy Murray, so I’m going to make up for that with just pure grit and toughness.”In the last event of a long day Rafael Nadal avoided disaster by eliminating Nicolas Kiefer, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, in a match that exposed some of Nadal’s rust after his three-month layoff because of tendinitis in his knees. Until he broke Kiefer’s serve at 4-3 in a 12-minute game in the third set, the outcome was in doubt. But as the match progressed, Nadal gathered strength and confidence and ultimately his talent and athleticism won out.For the first time in the Open era, the top 16 seeded men advanced to the third round in a major.Calm had returned to the proceedings after a day of upsets Thursday. Second-seeded Serena Williams all but stifled a yawn in treating her third-round match against María José Martínez Sánchez of Spain as a minor nuisance in a 6-3, 7-5 victory. No. 10 seed Flavia Pennetta needed 52 minutes to crush Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada, 6-1, 6-1, after Wozniak had routed No. 17 Amélie Mauresmo. And Daniela Hantuchova, No. 22, swatted away Vania King, 6-2, 6-2. King was trying to rekindle another day of undersize American magic a day after the 5-foot-6 Melanie Oudin rocked the Open by ousting the No. 4 seed, Elena Dementieva.When No. 2 men’s seed Andy Murray dropped a set to Paul Capdeville of Chile in their second-round match, it seemed like a big deal, but it turned into little more than a hiccup in his 6-2, 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 victory. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the No. 7 men’s seed, kept his momentum going with a dominating 7-5, 6-3, 6-4, victory over Jarkko Nieminen in a triumph of power over a classic counter-puncher. And No. 6 Juan Martín del Potro suffered only a few wobbles in beating Jürgen Melzer of Austria, 7-6 (6), 6-3, 6-3.Venus Williams, seeded third, defeated Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia, 6-2, 7-5, to advance to the fourth round. The victory sets up an intriguing matchup: she will take on Kim Clijsters.“So exciting,” Williams said in a television interview. “She’s been playing so great.”Clijsters, who dismissed Kirsten Flipkens, 6-0, 6-2, on Friday, won the Open in 2005. Williams was the last women’s repeat champion, in 2000 and 2001.Williams, wearing bandages above and below her left knee to ease patellar tendinitis in the joint, committed 23 unforced errors in the first nine games of the second set before rallying.Clijsters had little problem defeating Flipkens, whom she has mentored in Belgium.In her previous match, Pennetta had been even more dominant, beating Sania Mirza without dropping a game. The only ripple on the women’s side was a minor upset, No. 8 Victoria Azarenka falling to No. 26 Francesca Schiavone, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2. It wasn’t minor to Azarenka, who smashed her racket at the end of the match.The player no one wants to face is Pennetta, 27, who last month became the first Italian woman to crack the top 10. She won tournaments in Palermo, Italy, and Los Angeles, where she beat Maria Sharapova, to put herself on a roll.

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