Top tennis prospect recovers, plays at U.S. Open:: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Top tennis prospect recovers, plays at U.S. Open: South Florida Sun-Sentinel--
One thing to love about Charlie Bricker is the width and breadth of his tennis interests. He devotes this entire story to top junior Alex Kuznetsov and his remarkable recovery from the broken leg he suffered in an automobile accident in May. One thing not to love about Charlie Bricker is his sloppiness. In a brief item about Alex Clayton last month, he described the Ft. Lauderdale junior as five feet eight inches tall. Alex is six feet tall--we measured him here in Kalamazoo when we read Bricker's dubious number. It's not good enough to take an old profile and presume it's correct, especially when a junior player is involved. In this story, Phil Simmonds is referred to as a fellow junior (he's 19 and played his final junior tournament last September) and from Atlanta (he's from suburban DC). But I absolutely endorse Bricker's pronouncement that Kuznetsov is one of the U.S.'s top young prospects.