CBSSports.com: Last year's darling Oudin out early -- can she fight back?

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Art Spander in Melanie Oudin, U.S. Open, articles, tennis

By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange/CBSSports.com

NEW YORK -- She seemed equal parts intensity and innocence, a teenager who was quintessentially American and, with a lot of hustle and enough of a forehand, worked her way into the quarterfinals and into our hearts.

Melanie Oudin was the shining star of last year's U.S. Open, the kid from next door -- actually, from the suburbs of Atlanta -- who wrote "BELIEVE" on her sneakers and wrote a new chapter in tennis, knocking off three seeded Russians before finally falling to the eventual runner-up, Caroline Wozniacki.

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