As the delightful US Open story of 17 year-old teenager Melanie Oudin took another entrancing step forward to the women’s singles quarter finals and the whole of America awakened to a female teen idol who for a fortnight at least might even eclipse the precocious juvenile phenomenon that is Miley Cyrus, it is worth taking stock of a few inescapable tennis facts of life.
Oudin is the happy far-from-shy smiling American kid that this nation finds so appealing. She is also a down-to-earth kid who lives a happy family life in Marietta, Georgia, hasn’t been dragged away from her parents and her home to go and hone her game in a foreign country where she doesn’t speak a word of the language, and has already contemplated a life beyond tennis. Her aim is to one day become an obstetrician and maintains her aims are split between glory on the court and going to medical college. Imagine Maria Sharapova saying the same thing at a comparable age?
To insist Oudin had normal childhood is perhaps stretching the point. She has been home schooled since the age of 13 so she could dedicate more time to tennis while her twin sister Katherine continued through High School. And she turned professional while most of her peers were coming to terms with adolescence.
Most certainly Oudin has not been forced into the sport in an alien place where loneliness might have seen her cry herself to sleep each night. However only time will tell, whether she has avoided spending so many hours on court repeatedly drilling her shots that by the age of 22 her body might be putting up the white flag of surrender.
Soure: Google News
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