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TENNIS CRITIC

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Best American Doubles Performer at the U.S. Open Untelevised

She's 28, hasn't been past the second round of the singles of a major since 2004 and lost in the second round of the main draw at this year's U.S. Open. And she's having a great tournament.
Having already reached the semifinals of the mixed doubles and quarters of the women's doubles, Meghann Shaughnessy is having the best doubles performance at this year's U.S. Open of any American. The Bryan brothers are out. The Williams sisters aren't playing doubles.
And there Shaughnessy is, apparently fighting on the court right now to stay in the mixed doubles draw, after losing a close first set.
There's not much glory or coverage of successful doubles players. Why the professional tour is seeking to find ways to shorten the doubles matches and allowing men's matches to sprawl across five sets the entire tournament, as apparently they did not do in early rounds before the late 1970s, is completely beyond me. Right now there apparently is a highly competitive mixed doubles semifinals match with two Americans in it--31-year-old Liezel Huber is on the other side of the net. And how am I able to track it without tickets? By the web's periodic updates of the score.
It's 4-4. Dead even in the second set. Oh, but I forgot. I'm not supposed to care about doubles. Never mind.

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