Looking Back at The U.S. Open

I chose to write an article about tennis, specifically the U.S. Open, since I have played tennis since I was very young, and it is still one of my favorite sports both to play and to watch. Now, there were a lot of story-lines in this year's U.S. Open, from del Potro upsetting Federer, to Serena Williams' epic tirade, to American youngster Melanie Oudin's historic run, through to Kim Clijsters winning the tournament as a wild card. I, as you can tell based on the photo I have chosen for this piece, have opted not to focus on any of these story-lines. Rather, on something I have noticed through years of watching majors; there are always some matches in the early rounds of these tournaments by two people who never advance far and that you may have never heard of that are some of the most competitive and exciting matches that you'll see in the tournament, but are rarely put on television. ESPN and other carriers tend to choose to show the big names early in the tourna...