Rafael Nadal vs. Andrey Golubev US Open 2011

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 at 12:10 pm , filed under U.S. Open by Peter Johnson

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Defending champion, Rafael Nadal seeking for his second grand slam this season will be taking on Andrey Golubev to enter into the second round of the US Open 2011.World No.2 Spaniard, Rafael Nadal will be squaring off with Kazakhstan world No.97, Andrey Golubev in the first round of the 2011 US Open Champion on Monday, August 30, 2011 at 23:10 GMT, in the final grand slam tournament, which is being held in at Flushing Meadows, New York.

This will be their first head to head encounter against each other in any of the tournaments, as the King of Clay is a huge favourite to clinch the first round victory against the Golubev.Rafael Nadal, world No.2 player has been out of form on the hard court from the last few weeks, as the world No.2 has been thrashed out in the early rounds of the Masters tournament. In Montreal Masters, Nadal has got a shocking defeat against the qualifier, Ivan Dodig and in Cincinnati Masters, he out in the Quarter’s against the American top seeds, Mardy Fish.

Nadal winning the French Open grand slam this season has been victorious only on the clay court, as Djokovic was out of the clay court tournaments, Due to injury. Nadal has been thrashed out in all the finals against Novak Djokovic this season and it would be interesting contest to watch the defending champion in up-coming rounds.

Nadal having got a win-loss record of 53-10 this season has won all three titles on clay court.
Kazakhstan world No.97, Andrey Golubev having got a win-loss record of 6-24 this season will
Be having a tough time to overcome the world No.2, Rafael Nadal in the very first round of the tournament.

As per the predictions, it will be straight sets victory for the world No.2, Rafael Nadal in the first round of the US Open 2011.