Saturday March 21, 2009

Rain, Rain and More Rain ...Semifinals & Finals Set for Sunday

Showers rained on Sunrise postponing almost the entire schedule of matches scheduled on Saturday.

Rains pushed back the scheduled start of the day's opening match, the doubles semifinal featuring Filip Polasek (SVK) and Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) against Eric Butorac (USA) and Bobby Reynolds (USA). Set for Noon, the teams didn't take the court until 1:30pm. Ten minutes into the match the rain returned creating the first of three rain delays. The match started and stopped two more times before coming off the court for good at 5:45pm. When the day's action was called, Butorac and Reynolds were up 7-5, 6-6 (4-5). The match will resume at 11:00am on Sunday with Butorac and Reynolds serving.

The two semifinal singles matches (Berdych vs. Tipsarevic, Lopez vs. Soderling) and the other doubles semifinal match were pushed back to Sunday. Both singles matches and the completion of the doubles match are set for 11:00. The second doubles semifinal match with Jeff Coetzee (RSA)/Jodan Kerr (AUS) vs.Paul Hanley (AUS) / Stephen Huss (AUS) will start at the completion of the other semifinal doubles match.

The doubles finals are set for after 1:30pm. The singles finals will be played following the doubles final. (singles finals will not start prior to 3:00pm).

- FANS WHO HAD TICKETS FOR SATURDAY'S RAINED-OUT SESSION CAN REDEEM THEM FOR SUNDAY TICKETS

RESULTS - SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2009

No matches completed. Play cancelled due to rain.