NEW YORK — Melanie Mania ended with a whimper instead of a bang.
An unseeded teenager many tennis fans had never heard of before last week will play in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, but her name is Caroline Wozniacki.
Not Melanie Oudin.
Wozniacki, a 19-year-old from Denmark, let out a high-voltage smile after putting an end to Oudin’s storybook run at the Open with an efficient 6-2, 6-2 victory in the quarterfinals before a capacity crowd of 23,881 in Arthur Ashe Stadium that included Kate Hudson, Alec Baldwin and Donald Trump.
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Federer moved into his 22nd straight Slam semi with a win over Soderling. Read about it here.
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