SMASH Column, Clay Court Edition

A few items Tuesday:

1) My SMASH online column is posted.

2) The ustaboys.com site is down due to a server problem.

3) Subscribers with aol.com email addresses may not be getting daily FeedBlitz updates. I am told that FeedBlitz is working with aol to resolve this. If you add the mail.feedblitz.com address to your allowed senders, you shouldn't have a problem.

4) Peter Bodo has published Mike DePalmer Jr.'s open letter on Junior Development under his post entitled American Man and invited comments. Some of them are definitely worth reading.

5) Sam Querrey beat Vince Spadea Tuesday in the first round of the Countrywide ATP event. USA Today's Doug Robson did this profile of Querrey in Friday's edition.