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Marsel Ilhan of Turkey celebrates match point against Christophe Rochus of Belgium during day one of the 2009 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 31, 2009 in Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
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From pompelmo...
Our local guy reached the second round! This is the first ever open era grand slam tournament singles main board showing up and win for any Turkish tennis player :))
Of course Marsel Ilhan will not even know what hit him when he faces John Isner.
Probably not. But what a story.
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Cliff Drysdale, after James Blake made a stunning get and hit a winner on the dead run, said, "Look at the boy!"
Oh, Cliffy. Not the kind of slip of the tongue you want to make from the broadcast booth. Or anywhere else, really.
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Venus Williams wore a Medusa crown on the back of her fuchsia dress. That's all I can call it. Someone else will have to tell me what it is.
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Samantha Stosur and Sugiyama Ai gave us the women's match of the day. A fefw of the men's matches went the distance, but none off them were broadcast, as far as I was aware.
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All in all, the tennis on Day 1 was pedestrian. I missed the opening ceremonies.
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