Berdych, Baghdatis reach fourth round at soggy Wimbledon

Wimbledon, England (Sports Network) - Seventh-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych and 10th-seeded Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis snuck in third-round wins in between rain drops Monday at Wimbledon 2007.
Berdych, who titled on a grass court in Halle just three weeks ago, finished off Korean Hyung-Taik Lee 6-4, 7-6 (7-2), 7-6 (7-3) in a match that was suspended because of rain here on Saturday. Berdych will meet veteran Swede Jonas Bjorkman in the fourth round.
The 2006 Wimbledon semifinalist Baghdatis, meanwhile, waltzed pasted 23rd- seeded Argentine David Nalbandian 6-2, 7-5, 6-0 on Day 7 of this wet fortnight. The 2002 Wimbledon runner-up Nalbandian appeared to throw in the towel in the third set against the '06 Australian Open runner-up Baghdatis.
Second-seeded Spanish star Rafael Nadal was leading 28th-seeded Swede Robin Soderling 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (7-9), 4-6, 2-0 when their bout was stopped for the day. Nadal was two points away from victory in the third-set tiebreak when rain forced the players off the court. Following a lengthy delay, Soderling managed to capture the third and fourth sets before Nadal went up a break in the fifth, only to be interrupted by rain once again.
Other third-round wins came for 14th-seeded Russian Mikhail Youzhny and a 19th-seeded Bjorkman, as Youzhny dropped 18th-seeded Finn Jarkko Nieminen 7-5, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 and the ageless 35-year-old Bjorkman knocked out 36-year-old Aussie Wayne Arthurs 6-2, 6-1, 6-4. Arthurs had already announced that he would retire from the ATP when his 2007 Wimbledon run came to an end.