http://www.henin-hardenne.be/bin/index.asp?lang=en ROGERS CUP: Late night with Justine Henin-Hardenne! 20/08/2005: It was survival of the fittest on Friday at the Rogers Cup Toronto. Not only were players competing against each other, body ailments; the stormy weather with thunder, lightening, and rain taunted them. Justine's match was delayed an hour due to suspended play during the day session, but in typical style she held firm, and defeated young up-coming big serving starlet Nicole Vaidisova 7-5 7-6(7-4) in the late show. Justine's second night match of the year started out very sweetly in her second career meeting with the Czech Republic's young tennis star on the rise Nicole Vaidisova. The last match they play was hardcourt, which Justine won was at the US Open last year. It looked to be more of the same naive shell shocked Vaidisova when the score ran off at 4-0, but a few bad line calls against Justine, the weather, the delay, various things seemed to unsettle her, and the lead diminshed to 5-2. Rattled, and begging double faults did Justine no favours. Vaidisova was very much into the match, but Justine played harder with purpose, and able to clear her head. She closed the first set 7-5 in 57 minutes. The second sets started with yet, another rain delay at 0-30 on the Vaidisova opening service game. They resumed play again at about 10:40pm. The match featured very big serves, aces, power, double faults a plenty by Justine, and wild unforced errors by Vaidisova; one which barely missed hitting a ball boy. As the second set progressed Justine improved her service percentage, and only behind by one game. The errors increased for the young Czech, and there were breakpoints thoughout the set for both players. Justine reeled proceedings back to her control for the late night special at 6-6. A quick tiebreaker minus all the fuss, and agitation of the first set was won by Justine 7-6(7-4). Final Score 7-5 7-6(7-4) 1hr 58min at 11:38pm Justine will next play friend, and number 3 player in the world, Amelie Mauresmo on Saturday's semi final match. This will be their 7th match meeting, with the last being a year ago this Sunday August 21 at the Athens 2004 Olympics in Justine's glorious gold medal epic run. They are 3 all on the head-to-head wins. Match time will be 18:30 hrs Toronto time. --

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