NEW YORK — If you’re a British reporter covering the U.S. Open, you don’t have much to do besides admiring the Autumnal landscape. Always nice to visit America in early September. You might even bring a racket to swat a few balls in Central Park. But the tennis at Flushing Meadows, where the big boys and girls romp, doesn’t seem to mean much to Britain where the game was … [Read more...] about LAURA ROBSON / GIANTKILLER AT US OPEN
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BUD COLLINS SET TO RETURN TO MAJORS
Never mind Federer. Forget about Azarenka. The big news from the United States Open is that Bud Collins is coming back. Bud’s gaudy slacks have not been seen – and his gaudy prose has not been read or heard – since he ruptured a tendon in his left quad during the 2011 Open. It has taken him a full year for 10 procedures to finally heal the wound, and he missed the … [Read more...] about BUD COLLINS SET TO RETURN TO MAJORS
BUD KNOCKED OUT OF US OPEN DUE TO INJURY
NEW YORK – An abrupt end to our US Open - Bud had a small fall Sunday, suffering a complete rupture of his quad tendon. After being cared for attentively by the medical team at the US Open, headed by Brian Hainline, it was determined that he needed surgery as soon as possible. And so we headed back to Boston for that surgery, at the New England Baptist Hospital. We will … [Read more...] about BUD KNOCKED OUT OF US OPEN DUE TO INJURY
FLUSHING MEADOWS – A LATTER DAY OK CORRAL
NEW YORK – Ever wonder how Billy the Kid would have done with a tennis racket instead of a shotgun? The Kid, known as a withdrawal artist to the bankers of Lincoln County, New Mexico, showed his quick, greedy hands to advantage in practicing his craft in the neighborhood of the Tombstone’s infamous OK Corral. Who knows? Maybe the Kid might have preferred serving aces … [Read more...] about FLUSHING MEADOWS – A LATTER DAY OK CORRAL
MAMA IS BACK, LOOKING FOR MORE TITLES
NEW YORK – A cool gray sky greeted 35-or-so thousand parishioners as another US Open arrived yesterday. But Jada Ellie Lynch’s old lady – a sunny-plus personality — was out there sweeping her favorite court and making people feel good in the gloom. Sweeping not with a broom, which she does as a housewife – but with a tennis racket again. They had missed Jada Ellie Lynch’s … [Read more...] about MAMA IS BACK, LOOKING FOR MORE TITLES