SMASH Column, Kalamazoo Edition

My SMASH online column is up, and although I feel I left out more than I included, it certainly wasn't a chore to write.

Also, the USTA has announced the women's U.S. Open wild cards. Only Alexa Glatch, and Lauren Albanese, who won hers in the Girls 18s Nationals in San Jose, are juniors in the main draw group. The qualifying wild cards are a much younger bunch, with six girls--Julia Cohen, Madison Brengle, Chelsey Gullickson, Jamie Hampton, Ashley Weinhold and Mary Gambale--all aged 17 and under.

Marcia Frost will not be happy; Audra Cohen, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Player of the Year from the University of Miami, did not receive a qualifying wild card; no college players did.