Fourth-seeded Lleyton Hewitt of Australia bounced back to win his suspended fourth-round match against German 16th seed Tommy Haas 3-6 7-6 6-4 6-2 today and reach the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open.
Haas had been leading 6-3 2-2 yesterday when the rain-delayed match was suspended so it would not run into the scheduled night programme.
But when play restarted on Wednesday, 20-year-old Hewitt took full advantage of the fresh start as he pushed the second set to a tiebreak, which he dominated 7-2 after winning the first five points.
The lightning quick Australian maintained his momentum by breaking Haas in the opening game of the third set and never looked back as he set up a two-hour, 46-minute victory, which he ended with a smash on his first match point.
"It definitely helped me coming out today," Hewitt said about the delay.
"He was serving huge yesterday afternoon and I couldn't really get on it. I had to try and guts it out.
"But I had a great tiebreaker, went up early and went on from there."
Hewitt seemed to frustrate the 23-year-old German, using his speed to reach seeming winners and wearing down Haas who made 58 unforced errors as he struggled with his backhand.
Hewitt advanced to a quarter-final match against rising American Andy Roddick, who beat fellow 19-year-old Tommy Robredo in the fourth round.