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| Melanie Oudin |
NEW YORK - The preparation for the head of a practice session, Melanie Oudin has been slow out of Arthur Ashe Stadium, the other day when three women approached the darling of the 2009 U.S. Open. They say this is an inspiration Oudin and asked if he could take a picture. Oudin obliged, and posed smiling for three of the many fans who have probably never heard of the son of Marietta, Georgia, a year ago at this time. She entered the U.S. Open, his fourth career Grand Slam, ranked 70th, after cutting three major champions Maria Sharapova and the 2008 Beijing Olympic gold medalist Elena Dementieva on the way to reach the quarter-finals. Oudin returns in mid-game, the attitude of Gee Whiz and pink shoes and yellow with Believe printed on the heel of honor. His victories made him, at 17, the youngest of the quarter-finals at the U.S. Open since Serena Williams in 1999.
