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Capriati, fortuitously, doesn't need a rain check.(Chicago Tribune)
Byline: Bonnie DeSimone
NEW YORK _ Thanks to a towel brigade that spent most of Labor Day on hands and knees, sixth-seeded Jennifer Capriati prevailed over Russia's Elena Dementieva in a rainy, enervating twi-night triple-header of a fourth-round match to advance to the U.S. Open quarterfinals.
The first shot of the match was struck at 1:42 p.m. and the last at 8:20, although the actual play lasted only 1 hour 12 minutes. After each of the two weather delays, tournament workers finished what mechanical drying devices started, mopping the court manually.
The match was only 13 minutes old when it was suspended with Capriati leading 4-0 and up 40-30 in the fifth game. Play resumed more than four hours later for another 37 minutes before it was halted again. Capriati led 3-2 in the second set at that point.
The dynamics changed briefly when the players returned in just under an hour for a third try. Capriati closed out the fourth game, but the 11th-seeded Dementieva broke her next two service ...
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