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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2008
U. S. OPEN
Ivanovic upset in 2nd round The top-seeded player fell to a rival ranked 188th
BY BEN WALKER ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Luice仁, of France, hits to Ana Ivanovic, of Serbia, during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. Thunder, Coin won the match, upsetting the top-seeded Ivanovic.
NEW YORK — Top-seeded Ana Ivanovic lost in one of the biggest upsets in tennis history Thursday, stunned by 188th-ranked Julie Coin 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in the second round of the U.S. Open.
Coin screamed when Ivanovic's last shot sailed out, then hoped for joy and hit an extra ball high into the stands. Ivanovic quickly gathered her gear and left the court, her hopes of winning another Grand Slam championship dashed.
Even after Ivanovic showed the effects of a bad thumb and struggled in the opening round, there was no way to see this coming.
Coin spent much of the year playing in minor league events, and the 25-year-old Frenchwoman nearly got knocked out of a qualifying event to merely make it into the Open.
Asked later whether she'd thought such a win was possible. Coin gave a simple answer.
"No," she said.
Not since 1967 had the No. 1 woman lost in the second round of the U.S. Open. That came when Maria Bueno drew a first-round bwe and lost in the second round.
too.
During the first four days at the U.S. Open, almost all of the favorites had won. Mostly in romps,
But when the Ivanovic-Coin match was moved from the smaller Louis Armstrong Stadium to the main Arthur Ashe Stadium, fans hardly knew what was in store.
Ivanovic seemed to regain her edge midway through third set. The French Open champ led 40-0 in the fifth game and was about to break Coin's serve when suddenly the momentum shifted. Coin came
back to hold, and won 10 straight points to take control.
Ivanovic tried to hold off Coin in the final game, but it was too late. Coin won on her third match point — quite a result for someone playing in her first tour-level event.
Coin had tried to qualify for the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon and never made any of them.
FOOTBALL Clemson gives coach another year for ACC title
CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson star tailback C.J. Spiller laughs at the question: How often did people tell you not to join the Tigers because coach Tommy Bowden would get fired?
"Oh yeah, I heard that a lot," said Spiller, a junior.
Well, only days away from Bowden's 10th season, the coach some Clemson fans love to grouse at, isn't going anywhere. He's walked the sidelines at Death Valley longer than anyone but modern program patriarch Frank Howard and national championship icon Danny Ford. He's got a deal that ties him to the school through 2014, the backing of his bosses and some of the skistest talent in college football.
The one thing Bowden doesn't own is a championship, and that, perhaps, is what has kept his coaching seat hot no matter how many blue-chippers he attracts.
"This is a tough profession to stay for 10 years," Bowden says.
runners James Davis and Spiller finished 1-2-3 for the league's preseason player of the year. They stand ninth in the national rankings, their highest starting spot since 1991, also the year of the school's last ACC crown.
The Tigers open Saturday night against No. 24 Alabama in the Georgia Dome. While Clemson might get the analysts' edge on several positions, almost every breakdown would give the coaching check mark to the Crimson Tide's Nick Saban.
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After hiatus, golfer attends star-studded competition
Vijay Singh hits off the 9th tee during the Deutsche Bank Championship Pro-Am round of the golf tournament Thursday in Norton, Mass.
BY DOUG FERGUSON
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NORTON, Mass. — Phil Mickelson's star presence at the Deutsche Bank Championship was evident Thursday by the company he kept at the TPC Boston.
He played the pro-am with tournament host Seth Waugh, the CEO of Deutsche Bank Americas; New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft. Such is the VIP treatment typically afforded the highest-ranked player in the field.
FedEx Cup playoff standings aside, that honor still falls to Mickelson.
He is No. 2 in the world ranking, although it's easy to forget that. Because while Tiger Woods has been out of sight for two months after his season-ending knee surgery, Mickelson at times has been MIA.
Some thought he would take advantage of Woods' absence by piling up victories, perhaps another major or two, and giving himself a chance to win the money title or PGA Tour player of the year for the first time in his career.
But it hasn't worked out that way.
Mickelson has played four times with only one serious chance at winning, when he had a one-shot lead until bogeys on three of the last four holes at Firestone to tie for fourth. He had to rally to make the weekend at the British Open, was steady but not spectacular in his tie for seventh at the PGA Championship and opened the PGA Tour Playoffs for the FedEx Cup last week with a tie for 19th.
"I've played the same way I've played throughout the year," Mickelson said. "I just haven't been scoring the way I would like. Even though I feel like I'm playing better, the little shots around the greens have cost me. But I'm starting to get that turned around, and I expect to have a much better week."
By most standards, Mickelson has had a good year. He won at Riviera and Colonial, and he is third on the money list, a little more than $1 million behind Woods. With three more $7 million events, a money title is not out of reach.
This would be a good place to turn it around, even if the cast of characters has changed.
A year ago, Mickelson surged into FedEx Cup contention with perhaps the most exciting playoff event at the Deutsche Bank Championship. He played the first two rounds with Woods and Vijay Singh, then hooked up with Woods in the final round and closed with a 66 and beat Woods and two others by two shots.
Asked how he remembered last year, Mickelson broke up the room by saying only, "Very fondly."
"It was a fun tournament last year, and I loved the opportunity to have won the tournament," he said. "But I also love the way it happened, with the opportunity to play three rounds with Tiger."
Woods hasn't played since winning the U.S. Open in a playoff, and the tour has had a taste of life without the world's most famous athletes. Attendance has been noticeably down in recent events, and television ratings have plunged, as to be expected.
Someone asked Mickelson if he wondered what golf would be like if Woods wasn't around. He
figured he would be No.1 in the world and "I'd be making half as much as I am now."
That was a reference to Woods being responsible for such big purses on tour.
"I'm very thankful he's in our sport, and he's had the success and the charisma and the lure to attract corporate America, as well as fans, to the game," he said.
Interest now is driven by a slow elimination amid volatile change in the standards and the FedEx Cup heads to a conclusion next month with $10 million going to the winner.
Singh took over the lead with a victory at The Barclays last week, while the two guys he beat in the playoff at Ridgewood — Sergio Garcia and Kevin Sutherland — are right behind.
Mickelson, who is at No. 4 and feeling good vibes from the TPC Boston, is hopeful of making a move.
"I feel like I'm hitting the ball pretty good," Mickelson said. "The key is going to be — again — scoring, getting up-and-down around the greens that I miss and getting those birdie putts to drop."
As much focus as there is at the top, equally important this week is the bottom. The second round of the playoffs is for the top 120 players, with only 70 advancing to the third round next week in St. Louis for the BMW Championship.
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