Tennis' Famous Fans
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Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell were just two of the stars who sat down to take in the action at this year's U.S. Open. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the famous tennis fans in the stands.
Tennis' New All-American Sweetheart
Danielle Friedman has worked as a nonfiction book editor for Hudson Street Press and Plume, two imprints of Penguin Group. Her writing has been published in the Miami Herald, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and on CNN.com. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
The feisty teenager from Marietta, Ga. has vaulted into the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open, dispatching elite Russians Maria Sharapova, Elena Dementieva, and Nadia Petrova along the way.
Seventeen-year-old Melanie Oudin of Marietta, Ga., serves to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia during the first round of the U.S. Open on Sept. 1.
The Great American Sporting Event
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Why does the U.S. Open make for such great drama? Yesterday, The Daily Beast's team, including Salman Rushdie, Campbell Brown and Peggy Noonan, hit the court to find out. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
As I speak, Nadal just served, and he served outside the line, and he's trying to serve again. You know what's delightful about this? In baseba...
Nadal's Head Game
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Rafael Nadal sported a familiar new 'do at the U.S. Open-"the Roger." The Daily Beast's Gail Sheehy asks: Is he taking his rivalry with Federer to a higher level?
The Curtain Rises on Tennis' Big Stage
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The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove searches for celebrities at Day 1 of the U.S. Open, talks to the Williams sisters' dad about his book idea-and watches Roger Federer and his first victim.
Classic U.S. Open
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As the 2009 tournament begins this week in New York, VIEW OUR GALLERY of legendary players, unforgettable matches, and famous fans.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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