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America has some great tennis players. A whole heap of them. Some still in the juniors to all the way up to players in their mid thirties.
American men can only hope they fare better in the U.S. Open main draw with their 11 participants than they did in qualifying earlier this week. Not a single American man managed to successfully navigate through three matches and punch a ticket into the field of 128. Two Americans had advanced to the final round, but neither one could finish the task on Friday.
Highly-touted American juniors Stefan Kozlov and Francis Tiafoe experienced different fortunes on the second day of qualifying at the U.S. Open. Kozlov faced countryman Mitchell Frank, who stars at the University of Virginia, and prevailed 3-6, 6-0, 6-2.
American and two time champion Sam Queerey is set to face qualifier Ricardas Berankis for the 2012 Farmers Classic title.
The teaming up of Indian Rohan Bopanna and Pakistani Asiam-ul-Haq Qureshi, who will take on the Bryan brothers in the US Open men’s doubles final on Friday, has caused such significant cultural ripples that even if they fail to win a single point they will still have scored a sizeable victory.
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