Venus Has Her Designs On The Fourth Round
September 3, 2010 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – Venus Williams is more than a tennis player. She’s an author, fashion designer, and philanthropist. And her work showed tonight at Arthur Ashe Stadium when she debuted a new outfit designed for the US Open designed by her company EleVen Designs. “So far this year my outfits have been based off [...]
Fourth Round Brings A Very Interesting Matchup
September 3, 2010 by Richard Pagliaro · Leave a Comment
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – Ana Ivanovic spent some of her US Open Series summer between the covers. An avid reader, Ivanovic was absorbed by Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl Who Played With Fire” and today a fist-pumping Ivanovic looked liked the woman empowered by an inferno of intensity in a 7-5, 6-0 thrashing of 157th-ranked French [...]
Is Isner America’s Best Hope?
September 3, 2010 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – With Andy Roddick and now Ryan Harrison out of the tournament, is John Isner America’s best champ in bringing back the Men’s Singles championship to the United States? If his ankle holds up, then sure, but that’s a big if. “Yeah, it’s definitely been tough,” said Isner who beat Marco Chiudinelli [...]
Ryan Harrison Loses Heartbeaker at Open
September 3, 2010 by Richard Pagliaro · Leave a Comment
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – Fans were hanging off the rafters high above the stadium like rowdy revelers crammed into every inch of Times Square anxiously waiting for the ball to drop on New Year’s Eve. And on the Grandstand Court below Ryan Harrison carried the crowd to the very edge of erupting in delirium, earning [...]
Mentor Maria Hopes To Avoid Upstart Buzzsaw
September 2, 2010 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – Maria Sharapova knows a thing or two about facing the up and comer. Last year she ran into a buzz-saw named Melanie Oudin in the third round and was forced to go home. Now after her 6-1 6-2 win over Iveta Benesova, the Russian beauty will be facing another up and [...]
Down Goes Roddick
September 2, 2010 by Richard Pagliaro · Leave a Comment
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – Andy Roddick stepped on the line then tumbled out of the US Open second round tonight. Janko Tipsarevic out served, out fought and out hustled Roddick, scoring a stirring 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6(4) victory that sent Roddick to his earliest Flushing Meadows exit since he lost to Gilles Muller in the [...]
No Oudin Run In 2010
September 1, 2010 by Richard Pagliaro · Leave a Comment
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – Melanie Oudin turned her back to the court, faced the blue back wall and stared at her Wilson racquet as if searching the strings for solutions to the problems posed by Alona Bondarenko. Oudin mastered the art of the comeback during her rousing run to the 2009 US Open quarterfinals, but [...]
Life Lessons From Professor Querrey
September 1, 2010 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – Bradley Klahn learned a few lessons today and the first one is Sam Querrey plays hardball. Maybe it comes from his love of his hometown Los Angeles Dodgers, or maybe it’s just the only thing he knows. One thing’s for certain, though, Klahn learned that the hard way during the first [...]
Ana On The Move Again
September 1, 2010 by Richard Pagliaro · Leave a Comment
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – Tennis is a numbers game, but Ana Ivanovic refuses to be defined by the digits next to her name. The former World No. 1 is not seeded in this US Open, but that hasn’t stopped her from surging into the third round for the first time in three years. Ivanovic stomped [...]
In The Twilight Of His Career Blake’s Still Looking Forward
August 31, 2010 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – As James Blake stood on the court of Arthur Ashe last night, you had to wonder if this was going to be his swan song. After all, the 29 year-old has struggled with injuries the last few years and he’s not getting any younger. “A couple people mentioned something like that [...]
