Rain after an outpour of American wins

Jennifer Capriati led 11th seed Elena Dementieva 4-0 in their US Open fourth round match when rain forced the players off court. The pair ma...

Jennifer Capriati led 11th seed Elena Dementieva 4-0 in their US Open fourth round match when rain forced the players off court. The pair managed to play just 13 minutes of their matchbefore a steady drizzle disrupted the action.

Earlier on Sunday despite the rain stoppages Andre Agassi thumped former world No.1 Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6-3, 7-6, 6-4 on Sunday, racking up his 199th victory in a Grand Slam match to reach the fourth round .

Bhupathi-Suarez concede mixed doubles match

Mahesh Bhupathi and Paola Suarez of Argentina conceded their second round mixed doubles tie against Liezel Huber and Pavel Vizner. There was mixed luck for India in the junior championships as Tara Iyer, Divji Sharan and Sania Mirza made it to the main draw while Karan Rastogi, Somdev Dev Varman and Sanaa Bhambri failed to survive the qualifers.

“I think a lot of things went well…I managed to sneak out that second set tiebreak and then I was off to the races,” Agassi told reporters after notching his sixth successive win over the Russian.

The top seed was swiftly followed into the winners’ circle by a restrained Andy Roddick, who this time let his tennis do all the talking in a brutal 6-1, 6-3, 6-3 demolition of Brazilian Flavio Saretta.

But Americans did not have it all their own way at their Grand Slam.

New Yorker James Blake was taught a lesson by an imperious Roger Federer, the second seed and Wimbledon champion winning 6-3, 7-6, 6-3, and in the women’s draw 17th seed Meghann Shaughnessy was walloped 6-2, 6-4 by world No.1 Kim Clijsters.

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Belgian top seed Clijsters will next meet fifth seed Amelie Mauresmo of France, who overpowered Thai Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-2, 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals. Federer next meets David Nalbandian of Argentina.

Nalbandian, who leads Federer 4-0 in matches played, saw off Wimbledon runner-up Mark Philippoussis 7-5, 6-7, 6-3, 6-2.

Third seed Lindsay Davenport became the first woman through to the quarters when she struggled past Russian Nadia Petrova 6-0, 6-7, 6-2. (Reuters)