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This Girl Is On Fire: Victoria Duval Upsets Former @USOpen Champ Stosur, Becomes Instant Household Name

Victoria Duval shocked the world tonight, and my blog stats proved it. World #296 won a gutsy 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 battle against former US Open Champion and World #11 Sam Stosur in the first round of the US Open. I will try not to fill this post with just enough words to make it economically viable on the search engines.

I will just say: That. Was. Awesome. Vicky!

Duval faces the very beatable Daniela Hantuchova in the 2nd round. She follows in the footsteps of Madison Keys and Melanie Oudin as an upstart player who begins household recognition at the US Open. Duval is so relaxed that my expectations have naturally run high. I’m glad it will have no effect on her.

As you remember, Duval qualified by winning three straight matches in New York. Here’s a video of her first qualifying win last week.

In addition, today’s victories by two of this blogs All Time Favorites, Denis Kudla and Alison Riske, make Day 2 of the US Open one I’ll never forget!

—S. Fogleman

Victoria Duval Advances to Main Draw With Stellar Play @USOpen

Victoria Duval is a future US Open Champion, in my humble opinion. She qualified by way of three gritty victories at Flushing Meadows this week. Each one of them was sweet in their own right. Today, she extended her trip to NYC with a 6-3, 6-3 routine win over Tereza Mrdeza. Here’s a look at match point of her first round victory over 4 seed Teliana Pereira (BRA) on Monday.

Another great young American I watched win on Monday is Jamie Loeb. Jamie beat Veronica Cepede Royg 6-1, 6-3 at Flushing Meadows. Although she fell to veteran Ksenia Pervak in the second round, we look forward to Jamie Loeb in the US Open main draw next year.