It's US Open Time!

You know summer has come to an end when you can turn on the USA Network at night and catch the US Open tennis tournament.

Unfortunately, the other night, the volume was not working on the broadcast. We could hear the sound on the commercials, but nothing during the matches. Sure, it was nice to watch the matches - and some people don't like the commentators anyway - but it would have been nice to have known what the two guys were talking to the chair umpire about. (Dad looked it up the next day on the Internet.)

This also caused Dad to pause to remember great US Open tennis tournaments of old... Like the time Todd Martin's match went into the wee hours of the morning, or when Andy Roddick tore through the 2003 field to win his US Open title or the great matches between Andre and Pete (and those great Nike commercials that featured them).

If you're in the mood to look back, take a look at these pictures from two years ago on an afternoon with the YD girls at the tennis court.