USO wild cards

[Brinyi]

Wild cards:

James Blake, Lleyton Hewitt, Jack Sock, Denis Kudla, Dennis Novikov, Rajeev Ram, Guillaume Rufin and Steve Johnson

Melanie Oudin, Bethanie Mattek Sands, Nicole Gibbs, Mallory Burdette, Victoria Duval, Julia Cohen, Casey Dellacqua and Kristina Mladenovic.

For the qualies:

Chase Buchanan, Alexios Halebian, Christian Harrison, Bradley Klahn, Daniel Kosakowski, Mitchell Krueger, Tennys Sandgren and Rhyne Williams.

Brooke Austin, Julia Boserup, Gail Brodsky, Samantha Crawford, Alexandra Kiick, Shelby Rogers, Chalena Scholl and Ashley Weinhold.

[janie]

Julia Cohen She did earn it, though.

It's weird to me that people name their kid Christian. You don't often hear of parents naming kids Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or Atheist.

[Brinyi]

Oh, I guess I never mentioned to you that our son's name is Zoroastrian. We call him Zorro.

[lexpretend]

It's very funny how the reciprocal WC bullshit screwed the USTA out of giving WCs to Min and Keys (let alone Davis or Pegula, who would have definitely received home Slam WCs if they were French, Australian or British). None of the six USians who did get WCs are arguable (even Cohen - she reached a WTA final and made the top 100, you can't ignore that; Mattek-Sands is the most questionable but she's been a USian stalwart for too long). But then they have to make room for DELLACQUA and MLADENOVIC, who are deserving of nothing

[lexpretend]

Also, how weird that Burdette and Gibbs came from absolutely nowhere (I guess they were in college) but have killed everyone this summer with the kind of results you expect from teen phenoms.

[janie]

Yeah, that's been astonishing. I think they both play for Stanford! Good place to send the kiddies, parents.

Edit: ah, yes, they both play there: www.gostanford.com/sports/w-tennis/spec-rel/052812aaa.html

I wonder if they'll turn pro now?

[Wagasi]

One's majoring in Psych and the other's is undeclared. Turning pro would be a good option.
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