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
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MAID OF MARIETTA CONTINUES UPSETTING ORDER AT US OPEN
NEW YORK – Clean, free laundry every day. That was one of the topics as the first week of the US Open faded into another of it’s lovely daily sunsets. But the sun has yet to set on the wonder child of the Open, who keeps washing tough, towering adversaries out of her golden hair with unfailing swings of her tennis racket. Who knew of her a few days ago? But now she’s a … [Read more...] about MAID OF MARIETTA CONTINUES UPSETTING ORDER AT US OPEN
MAID OF MARIETTA CREATES UPSET OF THE WEEK
NEW YORK – So I look at my watch, and it says 2:04 PM, Thursday September 3. And I say, “Are you sure? You mean it’s only the fourth day of the US Open, and my pick for the women’s title is heading for the airport. Next stop – Moscow. Last stop – Flushing Meadows, second round, where the world’s No. 4 tennis player, Elena Dementieva, got off while about 20,000 homebodies … [Read more...] about MAID OF MARIETTA CREATES UPSET OF THE WEEK