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On Monday I was back and forth between the Grandstand and Armstrong courts, looking for the Rocky of tennis.  But something occurred to me as I watched the underdogs go down:  In boxing, you always hear about a puncher’s chance.  But in tennis, one great punch is only one point, and to win a best-of-five [...]

Up until two weeks ago, Gilles Muller of Luxembourg had won $74,851 in a year of circling the globe in Challenger events, and had a dismal 3-4 record on the ATP tour in 2008. Since then, he has won seven matches in a row at Flushing Meadows, three in the qualies and four in the [...]