If you need any proof that the USTA doesn’t fix the draw for promising Americans who get wild cards, 18-year-old Devin Britton of Mississippi, the youngest NCCA champ ever, ended up in line two of the draw.   He plays that dude who was on the cover of this month’s Tennis magazine, poised like an angel in designer tennis clothes with a personally monogrammed belt flying up into heaven above the caption “The greatest of all time.”  At least all of America will get to see Britton’s serve and volley game in prime time.  Here is hoping for the greatest upset of all time, but I ain’t going to bet money on it.

Fellow American Scoville Jenkins of Atlanta — who has won his first two qualies matches and can win his way into the tournament today with a victory against the No. 1 seed in the qualies – can relate to Britton.  He’s had a history of brutal first-round draws in the main bracket at Flushing Meadows, and has drawn Federer and Roddick in opening matches in the past, and played Nadal a tough four-setter in the second round in 2005.  Jenkins, who turns 23 in September, is now ranked 256 in the world, and the highest he has been is 187. (UPDATE: Jenkins would still surely trade places with Britton — he lost to Thomaz Belluci of Brazil 2 and 4, falling one win short of making the main draw.)

Scoville Jenkins

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