Melanie Oudin lost in a disastrous second round match where she hit over 38 unforced errors and less than 10 winners to Alona Bondarenko. The American said afterward not that the US Open is over, she can start a new career and forget what happened last year.
“I guess I’m a little tiny bit relieved now,” Oudin said. “I can kind of start over from all the expectations from last year. And now I can just go out and hopefully do really well the rest of the year and keep working hard.”
Ironically, a fellow American newcomer, Beatrice Capra might be stealing Oudin's limelight this year. The unseeded American player knocked off 18th-seeded Aravane Rezai of France, 7-5, 2-6, 6-3, yesterday, to advance to the third round of the US Open.
Capra could next face, guess it, Maria Sharapova.