College Success at US Open; More on Ailing U.S. Tennis, McHale Prepares for Sharapova; Harrison and Van't Hof Upset Six Seeds in Men's Doubles

I took most of the day off, not from tennis, but from the live streaming on usopen.org, so I could work on my US Open Junior preview for The Tennis Recruiting Network, which will be published Friday. There were a few interruptions, as there always are, and one of them was a pleasant one. Joshua Rey, whom I worked with at the Orange Bowl two years ago when he was writing the releases for the USTA,