RealClearSports: The (Too) Long Nights at the Open
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Art Spander in Caroline Wozniacki, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, U.S. Open, articles, tennis
By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com


NEW YORK – “In a real dark night of the soul, it’s always 3 o’clock in the morning.” That’s from F. Scott Fitzgerald, and it came to mind during a changeover and between yawns as Roger Federer battled Juan Monaco.



New York is the city that never sleeps. Nobody wrote it’s the city where it never rains, because Tuesday the U.S. Open Tennis Championships were washed out and there was no play. Well, there was, for 1 hour, 12 minutes.

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