Do not read below if you have the Matches Taped and haven't
watched them as yet from todays matches. 08/28/08  Of the
completed matches today, I'm amazed that there were three
matches where one of the contestants retired. People this is the
Big Show. This is the Grand Daddy of American Tennis. This is
the US Open. What you have to accomplish in order to make it to
this stage is no easy task and to play 2 sets and then retire,
is an insult to the sport. If you're not conditioned well enough
to make a serious attempt at winning this event, then you
shouldn't deny the chances of someone that just lost out from
getting in. You took a spot from a pretty good qualifier who
just may have had a bad day and run into another qualifier who
was just a little stronger that day than you were. So you live
with that but when you see that three Players threw in the towel
in the 2nd Round of this Tourney, those are three spots that
could have gone to some very promising young talent that has to
wait yet another year before the