US Open Wrap-up

It's over. Monday night. There's no roof yet over the main stadium at the US Open, Flushing Meadows, NY...the rain came at the end of the tournament, instead of the first five rounds, as usual. The unexpected champions--Kim Clijsters, unseeded, wildcard--well, you know what happened on her journey back. And then there's Juan...and then there's Juan. The big guy smacked his way, fearlessly, into the final, then a chance to win and then...he won! In the tennis world, there's one language--English. If you don't speak it as your mother tongue, then that's just one more thing you have to master if you're going to break into the top echelon and give "winner" interviews. Now this is why I decided, after my husband reported the same, that I don't like Dick Enberg anymore...because of a time constraint, Dick Enberg gave short shrift to the 2009 US Open Men's Singles Champion, Juan Martin del Potro who only wanted to give a quick shout-out IN SPANISH to his Argentine audience. He (Dick Enberg) would never have cut Roger Federer off from giving a quick "thank you" in Swiss German or French or any other language to his world-wide tennis fans--in fact, the runner-up from the Women's Singles competition, Caroline Wozniacki was given the microphone to speak both Danish and Polish to her fans...what a shame and an embarrassment, Dick Enberg, really--the US Open Champion deserves way more respect from us mere mortals (and the Big Network) than you gave him in the name of "network constraints". That's why I love Tennis Channel and Jimmy, Martina and Leif. They get it. You don't. Pity.