Andy Roddick can serve a tennis ball at more than 100 miles per hour. His serves travel 80 feet across the court in less than one second! And yet - Andy had an unfortunate and early exit from this year's U.S. Open. The beauty of tennis - and many other sports is that on any given day even the best players or teams can end up with the short end of the stick! (Look what happened to Maria Sharapova last weekend.)
Every year new and sometimes younger stars emerge and knock off one or more of the top ranked players. The excitement in the air around Flushing Meadows is almost electric! Memories of Jimmy Connors pumping his fist in the air. Pictures of Rafal Nadal running down seemingly impossible shots and hitting yet another winner.
Tennis offers plenty of excitement for those of us watching in the comfort of home and the lucky thousands who get tickets to one of September's signature sporting events. The U.S. Open - weather permitting - comes to a close this weekend. Will this be Rafa's year? Or another boring victory for Roger Federer? Will one of the Russian girls walk off Centre Court smilling? Or maybe this September will produce a new wave of U.S. Open Champions.
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