<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Official Bud Collins Website</title>
	<link>http://www.budcollinstennis.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:51:43 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.0.1" -->

	<item>
		<title>Welcome to the new BudCollinsTennis.com!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time to re-shuffle the deck. After five years on the web, we&#8217;ve decided to make some changes in BudCollinsTennis.com &#8211; in appearance, incorporating new technology, making dialogue between readers and me easier. Rather than a daily who-beat-whom-and-won-what, I&#8217;ll offer my observations and welcome yours. I&#8217;ve been fortunate in being whisked across the globe for decades [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budcollinstennis.com/?p=1</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>NUMBERS KEEP PILING UP AS LONG AS ESTHER IS PLAYING</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK – One of these days she will not win the US Open.  Maybe. But don’t count on it. Just count on the wheeler-dealer of Flushing Meadows to ride the paved range like Annie Oakley, hitting her targets at will, making sure of one thing: you lose. It has been this way –- her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budcollinstennis.com/?p=1570</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>LAST YANK GETS YANKED BEFORE QUARTERS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK – Lunging desperately at the little yellow ball they were eyeball-to-eyeball at the net for their last swings of the day.  The witnesses, about 15,000 of them in Arthur Ashe Stadium , were screaming, urging &#8212; most of them in the corner of the young Californian, Sam Querrey. Make the shot and hang [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budcollinstennis.com/?p=1556</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>NOTHING ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK – Through one of his characters, Marcellus, a scribbler named Shakespeare said there was “something rotten in the state of Denmark.” But if the Bard had been among 20,000-or-so ticket-holders at an open-air theatre called Arthur Ashe Stadium yesterday, he might have reconsidered that line from his ancient soap, “Hamlet.” He would have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budcollinstennis.com/?p=1550</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>&#8220;LA LIONESSA&#8221; IS EATING HER WAY THROUGH THE DRAW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK – A lioness is on the loose at a local public park called the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.  Stay out of the way.  Four women didn’t, and the lioness, who speaks Italian, and deals Baroque spin, dined on them and is prowling the quarter-finals of the US Open. Called “La Lionessa” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budcollinstennis.com/?p=1545</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>THE NEW KID IS BURIED IN BAGELS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK – Heavy winds coursed across the abyss called Ashe Stadium, but they didn’t blow Beatrice Capra away.  That job was left to Maria Sharapova, and she went at it devastatingly. A blonde gale wrapped in an aqua gown, screaming like a cyclone, she was miserly Maria, unwilling to part with a single game [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budcollinstennis.com/?p=1541</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>EARL FLOPS, TOURNAMENT MOVES ON</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK – Waiting for Earl… Thousands decided to wait for Earl the Hurricane at the tennis parlor in Flushing Meadows.  They packed umbrellas, raincoats, hip boots, transistors, emergency rations, perhaps collapsible row boats and kerosene lanterns. Peering at the rumpled gray sky and the US Open’s blue tennis courts, the tennis nuts were ready [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budcollinstennis.com/?p=1536</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>IS NO. 371, CAPRA, GOING TO BE THE NEW OUDIN?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK – “…and so here I am…” Where is “here”? For the young American speaker, Beatrice Capra, the word had geographical and geneological meaning.  She was very unexpectedly taking up space in the third round of the year’s last major tennis championship, the US Open.  Wearing  a No. 371 ranking, she sent No. 20 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budcollinstennis.com/?p=1527</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>THE COMING AND GOING: HARRISON AND YOUNG</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; You are 11-years-old, and you’re trying to beat your old man on a tennis court.  He shellacs you.  No mercy.  But this is no casual backyard scuffle.  It’s for the men’s championship of Shreveport, Louisiana. “I wanted to win more than anything in the world at the time,” Ryan Harrison, now 18, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budcollinstennis.com/?p=1523</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>BENNETEAU SALUTES ANNIVERSARY OF SAMPRAS SPILL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; Lose your lunch but win the match. It isn’t easy, and some might say it takes guts, and the ability to stand up when you’d just as soon lie down and take a 10 count. You never know when the whim-whams will strike, but yesterday they did on the 14th  anniversary of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budcollinstennis.com/?p=1516</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
