Bud's 2004 US Open Diary - August - September 2004

2004 US Open- FEDERER FED HEWITT TOO MANY BAGELS- September 12 , 2004
The “Basel Baker,” aka Roger Federer, was in town yesterday, peddling his finest bagels on an asphalt meadow in Flushing. >>>MORE

2004 US Open- WHO'S TO BLAME FOR THE RUSSIAN AVALANCHE?- Sept.11 , 2004
Whom do we blame for what happened last night – a Russian teen-ager named Svetlana Kuznetsova, out of St. Petersburg heisting, the U.S. Open Tennis Championship, and taking it home? Not only that but a Muscovite was in America's first all-Russian final, Elena Dementieva, beaten, 6-3, 7-5.>>>MORE

2004 US Open- ANDY BUMPED INTO THE WRONG JOHANSSON - September 10 , 2004
Are there more Johanssons than herring in Sweden? Close. >>>MORE

2004 US Open- STORM ROGER BLOWS ANDRE AWAY- September 9 , 2004
Scarlett O’Hara, the onetime Georgia Peach who refused to be gone with the wind, played defense by declaring, “Tomorrow is another day.” But for the venerable Andre Agassi, gusted and busted by the winds of Flushing Meadow, there is no another day at the U.S. Open. >>>MORE

2004 US Open- IS THE JENNY-RATOR SWITCHED ON AGAIN? - September 8 , 2004
Is this where you came in a long time ago? Say, 1991?. >>>MORE

2004 US Open- ALTHEA, THE LIGHTNING BOLT CHAMPION - September 7 , 2004
She was out there all alone.>>>MORE

2004 US Open- CHAMPIONSHIP OF ARMENIA AT STAKE - September 6 , 2004
They played for the championship of Armenia yesterday at Flushing Meadow where a collateral event, the U.S. Open, was also in progress. >>>MORE

2004 US Open- MIX AND MATCH: BEAUTY AND "THE BEAST" - September 5 , 2004
Although Maria Sharapova’s Siberian childhood was not spent in one of the region’s infamous salt mines, she remained the salt of the tennis earth to the folks who made their way to Flushing Meadow in a record drove yesterday. >>>MORE

2004 US Open- BYE BYE SNOW WHITE SHARAPOVA - September 4 , 2004
Jumbotron, jumbotron, atop the wall/ Who’s the fairest of them all? >>>MORE

2004 US Open- A MATINEE THAT WAS RIGHT FOR LEFTIES - September 3 , 2004
Francesca Schiavone, the daughter of a Milan, Italy, bus driver, was traveling on foot in Flushing. Fast. Desperately. A yellow tennis ball had risen like the sun over her head – deftly lobbed by left-hander Angela Haynes – descending at the baseline, and bounding toward the backstop. >>>MORE

2004 US Open- ISRAELI NOBODY BOTHERS NO. 1 SOMEBODY - September 2 , 2004
A couple of the somebody’s around here are going to walk away from Flushing Meadow with a million bucks apiece in their petty cash stash. You can call them champ. >>>MORE

2004 US Open- A MAJOR CONCLUSION FOR FERREIRA - September 1 , 2004
Maybe a morbid thought, but wouldn’t this be a fitting epitaph on Wayne Ferreira’s tombstone: >>>MORE

2004 US Open- MARTIN-I GONE, GOOD TASTE LINGERS - August 31, 2004
And now Andre is all alone.
Andre Agassi isn’t being fitted for a wheelchair or a walker quite yet, and can fend for himself pretty well on a tennis court. But that old tribe of his has busted up, and Andre feels like Uncas after he ran out of Mohicans. >>>MORE

2004 US Open- WELCOME TO CONVENTIONVILLE! - August 30, 2004
This was my 42nd annual journey to New York to watch people swat tennis balls at each other. The objective: to scribble and/or babble about it -- and, you know what? It beats really working for a living. >>>MORE

2004 US Open- The 124th U.S.Championships at Flushing Meadow - August , 2004
This was my 42nd annual journey to New York to watch people swat tennis balls at each other. The objective: to scribble and/or babble about it -- and, you know what? It beats really working for a living. >>>MORE

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