Australia's Lleyton Hewitt advanced to his first Grand Slam final by inflicting the US Open's most lopsided semi-final defeat upon Russia's Yevgeny Kafelnikov.
Hewitt won 6-1, 6-2, 6-1 in only 83 minutes to book a date in Sunday's championship match against the winner of a 1999 US Open final rematch between defending champion Marat Safin and Pete Sampras. No other semi-final loser had ever taken fewer than six games off the winner and the only other Open-era match at Flushing eadows so lopsided so late was Jimmy Connors' 6-1, 6-0, 6-1 victory over Ken Rosewall. - AFP