Thursday, September 24, 2009
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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Friday, September 18, 2009
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Serena Williams loses match for conduct violation
After the line judge called the foot fault with Serena serving at 5-6, 15-30 in the second set, the youngest Williams sister intimidatingly stared her down before screaming at the official with a jabbed finger. After a few seconds, Serena turned back around to serve, thought better of it and resumed the badgering. The chair umpire then called over the line judge to ask what Serena had said, rules officials were summoned, a brief summit occurred at the net and it was determined that Serena would be assessed a point penalty for a conduct violation. The point gave Clijsters the match.
The initial foot fault that began the fireworks was a terrible call. It was unconscionable. It cannot be made at the end of any match, let alone in the semifinals of the U.S. Open. This isn't because a foot fault is a ridiculous call at that juncture (even though it is). It's because it wasn't a foot fault. The replays show that Serena's foot was behind the line when she served. You could make the argument that it was close but not close enough to make the call.
That being said, that's no excuse for Serena to berate an official. Wrong as the official may have been, there's a line that to be crossed and Serena did it pretty early on in her diatribe by saying, "I'm going to shove this ball down your f------ throat".
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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Monday, September 7, 2009
The Day After: Oudin a Celebrity in Times Square after US Open upset of Maria Sharapova
Melanie Oudin looked small and uncertain as she faced a growing crowd in the middle of Times Square Sunday morning. Less than 24 hours after the biggest win of her tennis career, the 17-year-old from Marietta, Ga., was dealing with a new reality.
"It's that tennis player," one teenage girl yelled to another as she whipped out her cell phone to take a picture. "The little one. The one that beat Sharapova."
Tourists and passers-by began to gather on 43rd St. Photographers jostled to get a shot of the new teenaged sensation who had just knocked out a former U.S. Open champion. Tourists and photographers jostled and yelled as everyone seemed to call her name from every direction.
The 5-foot-6 Melanie Oudin smiled nervously until the photographers began to push and shove each other. She was whisked away to a waiting car.
"It wasn't really scary. It was just really weird," Oudin said. "They all seemed to know me. It was just weird."
Melanie Oudin was presented with a cake that had her mantra Believe written on it.
Photographers (alerted by women’s tennis tour officials) crowded around to snap her picture with a tennis racket. Bystanders smiled and pointed cameras and cellphones. “She beat Sharapova,” said a pedestrian to his companions.A caterer had delivered a cake that said “NYC Loves Oudin Believe!” (Believe is her mantra). She stood beside the confection for more picture taking.It all happened pretty much wordlessly — until she was asked the inevitable question: “How do you feel?”
“Excited,” she said, smiling and stepping back into the van before it pulled away to return to the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
Serena Williams shows no sign of fall as Williams standing at US Open
Venus and Serena Williams be going on in tennis longer than any of the others who make it populate the sport when they broke in 10 years ago. A decade is an eternity in tennis, in professional sports really. In the span of five hours, on the same court at Arthur Ashe Stadium in fourth-round matches, the hunt for another women's U.S. Open championship took completely different turns for the Williams sisters.
Under a bright, sunny late morning sky Serena Williams breezed through an easy two-set match, beating Daniela Hantuchova 6-2, 6-0, to advance to the quarterfinals. Later under a cloudy gray sky with a wicked wind whipping around the stadium, Venus Williams, gimpy with tendinitis in her heavily wrapped left knee, lost to Kim Clijsters, 6-0, 0-6, 6-4. That derailed a possible semifinals showdown between the Williams sisters, who were in the same half of the women's bracket.
Under a bright, sunny late morning sky Serena Williams breezed through an easy two-set match, beating Daniela Hantuchova 6-2, 6-0, to advance to the quarterfinals. Later under a cloudy gray sky with a wicked wind whipping around the stadium, Venus Williams, gimpy with tendinitis in her heavily wrapped left knee, lost to Kim Clijsters, 6-0, 0-6, 6-4. That derailed a possible semifinals showdown between the Williams sisters, who were in the same half of the women's bracket.
After Venus lost to Clijsters, she joined Serena in a doubles match against Sonana Cristea and Caroline Wozniacki. At least that part of the Williams Sister Act at the Open was still intact.
But Clijsters brought the curtain down hard on the singles portion of the Williams Sisters Show in rather demoralizing fashion for Venus Williams. Clijsters blistered Venus in the first set and Venus Williams returned the favor in the second set. The third set was more indicative of pitched battle that fans had come to see. Williams missed several easy shots, but she seemed to be fighting fate much of the afternoon. Clijsters, who is returning from a two-year hiatus after having a child, became the first wild card entry to reach the women's quarterfinals.
As much as Venus Williams was fighting fate (and a debilitating injury), Serena Williams is operating on a tennis version of Manifest Destiny. Through her first three matches Serena Williams has crushed all the opponents in her path on the way to the quarterfinals and is looking at expanding her grand slam championships to three this year. Serena Williams has already conquered the Australian Open and Wimbledon. And with the No. 1 (Dinara Safina), No. 3 (her sister Venus) and No. 4 (Elena Dementieva) and No. 5 (Jelena Jankovic) seeds out, Serena, the No. 2 seed, becomes the heavy favorite to cruise to a fourth U.S. Open title.
The only one standing in her way could be Clijisters, who despite her absence has miraculously returned to grand slam championship form.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Five-set triumph required for heaven-sent for Taylor Dent at U.S. Open Its needed heaven sent for Taylor Dent at U.S. Open.All of the fatigue, all o
Its needed heaven sent for Taylor Dent at U.S. Open.All of the fatigue, all of the agony, they never seemed so far in the past as when Dent was running a ring around the Grandstand court at the National Tennis Center Friday night, slapping five with the fans who just wanted a piece of one of the most improbable - perhaps only - victory laps the U.S. Open's No. 3 court has ever seen. Taylor Dent - who only a couple of years ago was told Taylor Dent might never walk again, let alone take such a triumphant jog - went 4hours and 13 minutes on the Grandstand to outlast Ivan Navarro of Spain, 6-4, 5-7, 6-7 (1), 7-5, 7-6 (9), in a second-round matchup of serve-and-volleyers that turned into the most captivating match of the tournament.
When it was over, Taylor Dent simply couldn't contain his joy, grabbing the chair umpire's microphone and telling the crowd, "I just want to say you guys are unbelievable, I love you. Let's go!"
They are going together into the third round of the Open, where Dent will meet the No. 2 ranked player in the world, Andy Murray, with all of the fans and none of the odds in his corner.
"My voice is hoarse, I'm so excited," Taylor Dent said on the court afterward as the crowd chanted "USA! USA!" "It wasn't the prettiest match, but my grit got me through today."
Today, Friday, for three years, his grit has seen him through, if not to the top of the tennis world. The Newport Beach, Calif., product once was considered one of the great American hopes in men's tennis, charted on a course alongside Andy Roddick and learning under the tutelage of Pete Sampras. He reached as high as the No. 21 ranking before beginning to suffer back pain so excruciating that hanging a picture in his house would knock him down for hours.
Three surgeries on his back cost him most of the last three years of his career and left him bedridden all day for up to eight months at a time. He was told to forget tennis, and that the broken vertebra that was threatening the nerves at the base of his back might land him in a wheelchair.
Taylor Dent said "I came to grips with the fact that I wasn't going to be able to play professional tennis anymore," he said.
Murray ready well to face Dent in US Open
The Scotsman Andy Murray -- who is trying to become the first British man to win a Grand Slam title since Fred Perry in 1936 -- will play for a spot in the last 16 against the 196th-ranked US wild card .
"You want to make sure you don't have any regrets as it's a good three or four months before the next Grand Slam," said Andy Murray -- who was last year's beaten finalist.
Andy Murray enjoys playing at Flushing Meadows but the 22-year-old is well aware that the 25,000 capacity crowd will be firmly behind Dent -- who is playing in his first US Open since 2005.
A serious back injury forced the 28-year-old out of the world rankings, but he underwent complex spinal and has slowly begun to claw his way back up the world rankings.
Dent used his booming serve to outlast Spain's Ivan Navarro 6-4, 5-7, 6-7 (1/7), 7-5, 7-6 (11/9) and delighted the crowd with a wild celebration that culminated in him grabbing the umpire's microphone to thank his fans.
"Andy Murray y is tough. It's going to be rough. There's no way around it," said Dent.
"My execution is not where I want it to be but I'm going to go out there and fight as hard as I possibly can. Even if it's 6-0, 6-0, 6-0, I'm going to give him everything I've got," he added.
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Alex Anderson scored three touchdowns and Garrett Whipple added two as New Underwood downed Kadoka, 32-14, in the season opener for both teams Friday.
Whipple opened the scoring by getting into the end zone twice in the first quarter. His first score came on a 17-yard run, and that was followed up by a 31-yard scamper to put the Tigers up 14-0 after one quarter.
Kadoka would narrow the gap to eight points when Colter Stout found Kenar VanderMay for a 17-yard pitch-and-catch before halftime. Vandermay would score again to open up the second half finding the end zone from 21 yards out.
New Underwood would respond with the final three scores as Anderson hauled in a 15-yard scoring strike and ran for two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to seal the win.
Whipple ended the night with 129 yards on the ground and Anderson had 102. Whipple added 12 tackles on defense for the Tigers, while the Kougars were led by Chance Knutson’s 13.
CROW CREEK 12, CHEYENNE-EAGLE BUTTE 8: Crow Creek scored a pair of touchdowns in the third quarter to down Cheyenne-Eagle Butte, 12-8, on Friday.
Keenan World Turner returned a kickoff 80 yards to pull his team within two points and with seven minutes to go in the quarter, Vilas Fallis Jr. found Roger Bishop for a 2-yard touchdown pass.
C-EB scored on a Cody Neigel 2-yard strike to Malcom Guest, and the defense recorded a safety.
Crow Creek is now 1-1 on the season, while the Braves fall to 0-1.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Andy Murray's destination to the final US Open's bad guy
Winning must be nedded that would put Andy Murray through to the fourth round and bring him up to speed with the rest of the field. If he is to reach the final again this year, it will be in spite of the people who organise the US Open and not because of them.The rouet to be passed by Andy Murray-
US Open 2009 - Roger Federer vs Juan Martin Del Potro be the best Final?
Federer, Djokovic in fourth round at U.S. Open
The five-time champion Roger Federer beat Lleyton Hewitt on Saturday to reach the fourth round at the U.S. Open. Former runner-up Novak Djokovic joined the amazing Federer in the round of 16.
The world No. 1 Roger Federer dropped the first set against the 31st-seeded Hewitt before charging back for a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 decision at Ashe Stadium.Roger Federer beat Hewitt in the 2004 final on the grounds of the Billie Jean King USTA National Tennis Center.
Roger Federer got past Hewitt despite piling up an uncharacteristic 59 unforced errors, which was 22 more than the 2001 champion Hewitt.
The 15-time major champion Roger Federer advanced in 2 hours, 33 minutes with the help of 15 aces among his 51 winners, while Lleyton Hewitt settled for 26 winners in the setback. The Swiss great also tallied two more service breaks (5-3) than his Aussie counterpart.
Roger Federer, who is also the reigning Wimbledon and French Open champ, has now beaten Hewitt in their last 14 matchups, dating back to 2004, and is 16-7 lifetime against the fiery Aussie.
The former world No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam event champion Lleyton Hewitt has been climbing back up in the rankings after undergoing hip surgery last summer.
The 28-year-old Roger Federer, who hasn't lost here since 2003, beat Britain's Andy Murray in last year's Big Apple finale. The sublime Swiss will meet 14th- seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo or 21st-seeded American James Blake in the round 16.
The fourth-seeded Djokovic was tested mightily by American qualifier Jesse Witten before prevailing in 6-7 (2-7), 6-3, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 fashion at Armstrong Stadium. The 26-year-old Witten needed a wild card to get into the qualifying here and had never won an ATP-level match before going 2-1 this week.
Novak Djokovic got past Witten in 3 hours, 28 minutes with the help of a whopping nine service breaks. The surprising Witten tallied six breaks in a losing effort. Unfortunately for Witten, who notched 11 more winners than his Serbian counterpart (42-31), he piled up 11 double faults on Day 6.
The former Aussie Open champion Novak Djokovic was the 2007 runner-up here to Federer.
Up next for Djokovic will be 15th-seeded Czech Radek Stepanek, who came back to best 23rd-seeded German Philipp Kohlschreiber 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3. The Top-16 seeds in the draw are now a perfect 35-0 this week.
Two-time U.S. Open semifinalist Nikolay Davydenko cruised into the fourth round with a 6-4, 7-5, 7-5 victory over Swiss Marco Chiudinelli. The Russian Davydenko, seeded eighth this year, reached the final four here in 2006 and 2007.
The third round is scheduled to conclude here on Sunday, including matches for the 2008 U.S. Open runner-up Murray and former world No. 1 Rafael Nadal. The second-seeded Murray will meet American Taylor Dent, while a third-seeded Nadal, the reigning Australian Open titlist, will encounter 32nd-seeded fellow Spaniard Nicolas Almagro.
Also on Sunday, sixth-seeded Argentine Juan Martin del Potro will take on Austrian Daniel Koellerer and seventh-seeded former Aussie Open runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will be opposed by fellow Frenchman Julien Benneteau.
American Melanie Oudin stuns Sharapova at U.S. Open
American teenager Melanie Oudin pulled off straightly upstart of a Russian star, as Maria Sharapova was ousted by the Georgia native in Saturday's third-round action at the U.S. Open.
Melanie Oudin sat there in shock. Then, the tears started falling.Believe it or not, 17-year-old Melanie Oudin is the toast of the town at the U.S. Open.
"I don't even know what to say right now," Melanie Oudin said, choking back tears in her postmatch interview in Arthur Ashe Stadium. "Thank you so much for cheering for me."
Maria Sharapova, who has won this tournament once, usually gets those cheers. But on this cloudless day in Queens, the fans were rooting for a new potential queen — the one who stamped the word "Believe" on her shoes, but probably didn't see this coming so soon.
"My goal was to make the top 50," Melanie Oudin said. "But if I keep playing like this, who knows? Hopefully, I can get as high as anything."
Melanie Oudin added this upset to one over No. 4 Elena Dementieva in the second round and a win over former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic this year at Wimbledon.
Her confidence is growing as quickly as her resume, and suddenly, it does seem like anything is possible.
Gritting her way through a shaky third set, the 70th-ranked player from Marietta, Ga., pulled off her second upset of the Open on Saturday, defeating a more-seasoned, more-famous, more-moneyed opponent — 29th-seeded Maria Sharapova, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5.
The three-time major champion Sharapova captured a U.S. Open title back in 2006.
Maria Sharapova had little trouble with Oudin in the opening set on Saturday, but the young American fought back and captured the second set on her seventh set point to surprise Sharapova and force a third and deciding stanza.
In the final set, Maria Sharapova saved six break points to pull within 2-3 and then summoned a trainer to work on her right arm. The Russian superstar Maria Sharapova sidelined for more than 10 months because of a right shoulder injury that wound up requiring surgery last year. She returned to the tour earlier this season.
In the first game following Sharapova's injury timeout, Melanie Oudin broke for a 4-3 edge. And then following several more breaks of serve on either side, Oudin found herself serving for the match at 6-5 and converted on her first match point with a forehand winner into a wide-open court.
The Marietta native Oudin broke into tears as she moved into the second week here for the first time in her blossoming career. The upstart American also reached the fourth round at Wimbledon this summer by shocking former top- ranked star Jelena Jankovic.
Maria Sharapova imploded for 21 double faults and had her once-powerful serve broken eight times. Oudin was also broken on eight occasions in the 2-hour, 58-minute battle.
Melanie Oudin's fourth-round opponent will be another Russian, 13th-seeded Nadia Petrova, who was an easy 6-4, 6-1 victor against 21st-seeded Chinese Zheng Jie on Day 6 at the Billie Jean King USTA National Tennis Center.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
New underwear league in debate
The new underwear League, which opens its debut season on Friday is facing a debate but the underwear-clad female players are hoping, however -- probably in vain -- to be taken seriously.
The LFL, born out of the commercial success of the "Lingerie Bowl', a half-time show of women in scanty outfits broadcast during the half-time break in the NFL's Super Bowl, has ten teams competing in seven-a-side full-contact American football, with players dressed in sports bras and the tiniest of shorts.
The branding is blatant -- the teams have names such as the San Diego Seduction, Dallas Desire and Los Angeles Temptation -- and their websites and promotional material are more akin to those for NFL cheerleaders than genuine professional sports.
The league's founder Mitch Mortaza has described the venture as "Disneyland for football fans" but those taking part say they are serious about the sport and about winning.
"I think it is eye candy for one but it is also football and it is real," says Kaley Tuning, wide-receiver with the Miami Caliente who open the season on Friday at the Chicago Bliss.
"There were try outs for the team and if you couldn't play you didn't make the cut," she said.
"I've seen people say it is a joke and it is degrading and it makes me mad. We are real athletes, for them to not take us seriously, well I say wait till you see us play," she added.
Watching the Caliente practice, at a sports facility in the suburbs of Miami under the charge of former college football quarterback Bob Hewko, the strange clash of glamour girls and sport is quickly evident.
The training is taken seriously and the players work hard and look intense in the huddle but a Gucci handbag takes its place alongside the helmets on the sideline and one player, who like many is also a model, worries that she has picked up scratches ahead of photo shoot in a few days' time.
Hewko concedes that looks played a major part in the selection of the squad but, like everyone involved in the venture, says fans will see real football.
"I was surprised at the level -- the level of talent. They can run, they can catch and we have a quarterback that can throw the football 60 yards," he said.
It is unlikely to be the throwing prowess of the players that brings in the punters to the indoor arenas, however.
"For the first game, it is going to be people wanting to have a good time, wanting to see beautiful women playing football and getting down and dirty," said Miami's defensive captain Taira Turley, who is also a professional make-up artist.
Winning night of Federer and Serena
Under the lights at Arthur Ashe Stadium, Federer defeated Simon Greul of Germany in a slightly more difficult way that was unexpected at 6-3, 7-5, 7-5.
Federer will play Lleyton Hewitt on Saturday in the third round. Hewitt beat Juan Ignacio Chela, 6-3, 6-6, 6-4. Federer is 15-7 against Hewitt and has won their last 13 encounters. Roger Federer has stretched his U.S. Open winning streak to 36 matches by reaching the third round.Federer is trying to become the first man since Bill Tilden in the 1920s to win the American Grand Slam tournament 6 years in a row.Next up for Federer: a match against 2001 U.S. Open champion Lleyton Hewitt.
In another late match, No. 2 Serena Williams was pretty close to perfect in beating 51st-ranked Melinda Czink of Hungary 6-1, 6-1 in less than an hour.Also yesterday, Venus Williams moved on, Rafael Nadal came back and Marat Safin said goodbye.
Her left knee heavily wrapped, the third-seeded Williams defeated Bethanie Mattek-Sands, 6-4, 6-2, in a less taxing match than she had 2 nights earlier when she fell behind a set before rallying against Vera Dushevina.
"I'm still playing well and I feel I'll continue to play better as the rounds go on," she said. "I'm trying not to make this injury a factor at all."
Breaking with tradition, the Federer match was played first at Arthur Ashe Stadium ahead of the women’s match, in which Serena Williams routed Melinda Czink of Hungary, 6-1, 6-1 in 53 minutes.It was the first time the sexes had switched starting times since 1986, when a match featuring Jimmy Connors was played before a women’s match headlined by Gabriela Sabatini. The United States Tennis Association is expected to have at least one more card in which the men play first.
“Seems like it was a success so far,” Federer said. “We’ll see how it goes.”
But whether playing first, second, day or night, it mattered not to Greul, who was ranked 65th in the world entering the tournament and as low as 208th a year ago.After a listless first set, Greul played more aggressively, attacking Federer’s serve and forcing him to fight off two set points on his serve before Federer held and broke Greul in the 11th game. Federer hit three consecutive backhand slices and then changed the pace with a topspin backhand, following it up with a wicked forehand winner.
Federer won the match in 1 hour 58 minutes. As Greul walked off the court, he was cheered warmly by the 24,206 fans, a night session record.Greul said that because of the circumstances — playing against the world’s best player on center court at night — he could take more out of the loss than some of his victories.
“It was a great experience,” he said. “I’m really happy how it worked.”
The Hewitt-Chela match did not expose lingering rifts between the players. Chela once spit in the direction of Hewitt at the Australian Open. They amiably shook hands when it was over.