Bud's 2008 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 12 - April 6, 2008
IT TAKES A RUSHIN' RUSSIAN, NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO, TO BANISH SPANISH HOPE

KEY BISCAYNE, Florida - A solitary horizontally-striped red, white and blue Russian flag was raised periodically in what seemed a field of poppies.

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Bud's 2008 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 11 - April 5, 2008
IN CONQUERING KEY BISCAYNE AGAIN, HAS SERENA EPIPHANIED?

KEY BISCAYNE, Florida - Somewhere along the road from a January Melbourne defeat by Jelly Jankovic and a return to a favorite stomping ground, this seaside playpen, decorated with palms and 13,536 customers, Sister Serena had an epiphany. I think.

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Bud's 2008 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 10 - April 4, 2008
SEEMING A PAUPER WITH 1 RACKET, DAVYDENKO OUT-RODDICKS RODDICK

KEY BISCAYNE, Florida - Roddick got Roddicked.

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Bud's 2008 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 8 - April 2, 2008
KEY BISCAYNE DAY 8

KEY BISCAYNE, Florida - Has Mischa Youzhny, the self-assaulting tennis player from Moscow become the game's cover boy?

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Bud's 2008 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 7 - April 1, 2008
ROLL OUT THE BAGEL - SERENA LOX UP JUSTINE IN HER DREARIEST DEFEAT

KEY BISCAYNE, Florida - A bagel means you're being creamed. Not with cream cheese. Not with lox either.

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Bud's 2008 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 6 - March 31, 2008
YOUZHNY SMASH HIT; LINDSAY HOPES TO JOIN MAJOR MOMS

Big Mama didn't go as far as she'd hoped, but that was all right. She had one prized win in her satchel that let the other ladies know Lindsay Davenport could do something more convincingly with her hands than change diapers.

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Bud's 2008 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 5 - March 30, 2008
ONE OF A KIND FABRICE SANTORO IS GALLIC FUN OF A KIND YOU HAVE TO SEE TO BELIEVE

KEY BISCAYNE, Florida - Here is my wish for you, dear fellow tennis degenerate - that you get to see "Monsieur Legerdemain" in person before he hangs up his sneakers and gut-strung magic wand for good.

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Bud's 2008 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 4 - March 29, 2008
AN ANONYMOUS SERB GIVES ANDY TROUBLE WHILE TSONGA NEARS DAVIS CUP PREVUE

KEY BISCAYNE, Florida -- "With a Tsonga in my heart..." True, a corny re-working of an old lyric. Sorry.

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Bud's 2008 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 3 - March 28, 2008
CAMPUS HEROES HEADED BY QUALIFIER ANDERSON - WHO? - DIG GLEE ON THE KEY

Boola, boola, the college guys are having fun.

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Bud's 2008 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 2 - March 27, 2008
HOW BIG IS BIG? IT USED TO BE TILDEN, BUT NOW IT'S GIANT JON

They called him Big Bill. That was William Tatem Tilden, II, out of Philadelphia, the guy who turned the United States on to tennis in the 1920s.

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Bud's 2008 Sony Ericsson Open Diary - Day 1 - March 26, 2008
SONY ERICSSON OPEN COMMENCES BUT, SADLY, GUGA KUERTEN CLOSES

KEY BISCAYNE, Florida - It was hello and goodbye, all in the same afternoon, and not taking much more than an hour.

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