Melanie Oudin News

Butch Buchholz, founder and tournament chairman of the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, will be stepping down following the 2010 event.

Email your top clashes to: tennisfeedback@sportinglife.com Click here for full Net Talk blog The year-long debate about the 'real' number one on the WTA Tour proved a little tiresome but also helped highlighted lack of quality at the top of the women's game.

Melanie Oudin remains feisty, but the teen will need more work on her game to take the next step forward in her young career.

Hot Newcomer: Brooklyn Decker "I think I lost half my fan base today." Those were Andy Roddick's words after he announced his engagement to modelA Brooklyn Decker in 2008.

The cash versus patriotism debate has raged on ever since professionalism became the byword in sport, and chances are it will only get hotter and more complicated in the future.

When Italy won the Fed Cup final last weekend, the screaming crowds and the buzzing media covering the event showed just how much tennis has moved up on the public radar in the soccer-mad nation.

Melanie Oudin and Maria Sharapova could reprise their US Open meeting in Memphis next February.

The Cellular South Cup announced today that American Melanie Oudin has entered the 2010 Cellular South Cup, the premier women's professional tennis tournament in the Mid-South. Oudin joins three-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova as the first two entrants into the 2010 Cellular South Cup singles field of players.

Melanie Fiona, "The Bridge" Melanie Fiona may be eccentric. Or maybe she's just madly in love.

Cobb County's Melanie Oudin was awarded the first-ever Fed Cup Heart Award, given to a player "who has represented her country with distinction, shown exceptional courage on court and demonstrated outstanding commitment to her team" in 2009 Fed Cup play.

United States Fed Cup captain Mary Joe Fernandez admits her team is a decided underdog against host Italy in this weekend's Fed Cup final.

The Severn Valley Tennis & Fitness Club will celebrate its 30th anniversary this week from Nov.

Top-ranked Serena Williams will most likely receive a "significant" fine but no suspension for her U.S. Open tirade, the president of the International Tennis Federation said.

For the first time since her dream run at the US Open this past September, American teen sensation Melanie Oudin will find herself back in the spotlight as she prepares to lead the US Federation Cup squad against an Italian team playing at home in their third cup final in the last four years.

Alexa Glatch of the United States will open against Flavia Pennetta in the Fed Cup final against Italy.

Melanie Oudin hasn't won a main-draw tennis match since the U.S. Open, when she captivated the crowd with her relentless fight, fist pumps and an unwillingness to lose easily.

Serena Williams, the world's top-ranked women's tennis player, and Melanie Oudin, a rising star from Cobb County, are scheduled to participate in a Rock-n-Racquets exhibition at the University of Georgia's Stegeman Coliseum next month.

Melanie Oudin strong sense of self-belief - proclaimed in both her play and in the word written on her customized adidas - helped power her to the US Open quarterfinals.

South African-born Liezel Huber is determined to prove she's an all-American girl when the US tackle Italy in the Fed Cup final.

Williams informed U.S. Fed Cup captain Mary Joe Fernandez she won't play in the Nov.