NEW YORK – Is he risking a Samsonian downfall? Was Rafael Nadal’s visit to a barber shop a wise decision? Trimmed of what seemed his lucky locks, does he yet have the muscle and hustle to win a two-week tussle called the US Open. “Why, he has ears!” exclaimed a woman who saw him yesterday, during what seemed a cameo: 33 ½ minutes of making “Gonzo” (Chilean Fernando … [Read more...] about WITH SHORN LOCKS, HAS NADAL LOST A STEP?????
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ROCKET ROUNDS THE GRAND SLAM TWICE, A SINGULAR ACHIEVEMENT SIX YEARS APART
NEW YORK — Can it be 40 years since Rod Laver borrowed a dime from me? Afraid so. It wasn’t a “Brother, can you spare a dime?” plea, however. After all, Laver had moments before won a tennis tournament called the US Open, and was handed a check for $ 16,000. (The same event that will shortly endow a man and a woman with $ 1,600,000 a piece. Yes, you can get rich playing … [Read more...] about ROCKET ROUNDS THE GRAND SLAM TWICE, A SINGULAR ACHIEVEMENT SIX YEARS APART
WOZNIACKI ALARM CLOCK SPOILS THE KID’S DREAM
NEW YORK – “Dream big!” has been the outlook of the Fair Maid Melanie of Marietta, Georgia and she made it stand up for longer than anyone could have imagined. She was a duplicate Dorothy, 5-foot-5, carrying a tennis racket, and New York became her Oz. Millions of us fell for her, and she responded in an improbable run to the quarter-finals of the US Open. For a week the … [Read more...] about WOZNIACKI ALARM CLOCK SPOILS THE KID’S DREAM
ANDY MURRAY LOSES MATCH AND #2 RANKING
NEW YORK – The Great Bright Hope of Great Britain came, saw and was conquered, and will have to wait another year to maybe break the Curse of Fred Perry. No Brit has won the tennis championship of the United States (or Wimbledon) since the dashing Limey, Perry, took both those prized majors in 1936. Seventy-three years have passed — no cigar — although the current Great … [Read more...] about ANDY MURRAY LOSES MATCH AND #2 RANKING
QUEEN OF QUEENS, MELANIE OUDIN REIGNS!
NEW YORK – This little kid is still running around a meadow in Flushing making her elders look bad. Isn’t anybody going to discipline Melanie Oudin, teach her some manners, spank her with a tennis racket? Hasn’t happened yet. And maybe it won’t. As the female field in the US Open slims to the last eight, the Menacing Maid from Marietta (Georgia) is right up there – “I can … [Read more...] about QUEEN OF QUEENS, MELANIE OUDIN REIGNS!