NEW YORK Pharrell x adidas NMD Human Race Orange Schwarz Schweiz , Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- World number one Rafael Nadal staggered at the beginning but found his way out to advance into next round while Japanese teenager Naomi Osaka stole the headlines by knocking out defending champion Angelique Kerber in the opening round of the US Open which was hit by torrential rain on Tuesday.
Steady rain prompted Open officials to cancel 44 singles matches and postpone completion of 11 others underway when showers halted play.
Nadal began his campaign for a third US Open title with a 7-6 (6), 6-2, 6-2 win against Serbia's Dusan Lajovic.
The 31-year-old Spaniard recovered from 3-5 down in the opening set against the 85th-ranked Lajovic, who has never won a match in New York.
Osaka hit hard from both sides and struck 22 clean winners in the match while Kerber, the first defending champion to lose in the US Open's first round since Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia in 2005, was just in a different league.
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"I felt the same type of nerves come up 4-1 in this match, so I wanted to tell myself just to keep playing how I was playing and not let the nerves get over me as much as last year," she said.
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THE HAGUE, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Britain's historic vote to leave the European Union (EU) means increased challenges for the mainstream political parties in the Netherlands and a negative impact on the Dutch economy, experts say.
"With Euroscepticism on the rise Brexit is expected to strengthen populist, anti-Brussels voices in the Netherlands and across the EU," said Adriaan Schout, senior research fellow and coordinator Europe at Clingendael, the influential Dutch institute for international relations.
Geert Wilders of the Dutch anti-European Freedom party, whose polling results suggest it is currently the most popular party and could win a significant share of parliament's 150 seats in elections in March next year, has said Brexit would make it easier for other countries to make the same decision.
"We want to be in charge of our own country, our own money, our own borders, and our own immigration policy," said Wilders after results from Thursday's referendum showed a 52-48 percent split for leaving.
The Netherlands' own membership of the EU is likely to be a dominant issue in next year's election campaign. The Netherlands will go to the polls to elect a new government in March 2017.
Being one of the most proponent EU member states the Dutch politics will also be negatively influenced by the Brexit implications affecting the EU as a whole, Schout said, predicting a period of political uncertainty concerning EU's future reform agenda.
Britain's decision to exit the EU could prompt some member states to renegotiate their relationship with Brussels, the political expert told Xinhua.
"We might see deeper divisions concerning what reforms Brussels must undergo," He expected escalating differences between the northern and southern European countries.
In a similar tone Joris Larik, senior researcher at The Hague Institute for Global Justice, a renowned institute for international relations, said the Brexit vote might result in a new wave of referenda across the EU, including the Netherlands. He warned that such a process would block EU progress.
"Voices are already being raised in the Netherlands for a 'Nexit' referendum by far-right wing politicians. However, the situation of the Netherlands as a smaller, continental country, which is a founding member of the EU, is very different to that of the UK. Considering a 'Nexit" is therefore highly premature and misplaced for the near future," Larik told Xinha.
On a broader European context he noted that Brexit means renewed questioning of the viability of the European construction and severe obstructing of further integration efforts.
"The Brexit vote puts the EU under enormous pressure to prove that it can deliver and to avoid escalating costs," said the expert.