Tennis' New All-American Sweetheart
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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.
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