New York, Sep 02: Morocco's Younes el Aynaoui has become known for amazing endurance, but even his resolve is being tested by not being able to hold his newborn son while chasing his grand slam tennis dream. Flamboyant El Anyaoui, ranked 21st, will face Spanish seventh seed Carlos Moya in a fourth round match here today at the US Open, trying to equal his best slam showing by reaching the final eight as he did here last year.

El Anyaoui, who turns 32 five days after Sunday's men's final, extended Andy Roddick to an epic 21-19 fifth set at the Australian Open in January and is 5-0 here in tie-breakers, showing his steely resolve. But El Aynaoui's thoughts are on his Barcelona home, his wife Anne and their third child, newborn son Noam Ismail, whom he has seen only in photographs sent to him through the internet.

El Aynaoui's third boy was born two weeks ago while he was playing at the ATP long island event, the day he faced Brazil's Gustavo Kuerten in the quarter-finals of the last US Open tuneup. Bureau Report