Longtime readers remember that crabwalk.com’s favorite tennis player is Chanda Rubin, primarily because I went to high school with her. Well, Chanda’s rocking again, this time at the Australian Open. (The Aussie is where Chanda’s had her top grand slam performances — winning the whole thing in doubles in 1996, the same year she got to the semifinals in singles.)

This year, she’s made it to the fourth round in singles, disposing of Barbara Schwartz, Mary Pierce, and Melinda Czink. Up next: Anastasia Myskina, the eighth seed. In doubles, she’s paired again with Anna Kournikova and is in the third round. And unlike the U.S. Open, she and Anna are on the opposite side of the draw from the Williams sisters, so a spot in the finals is entirely possible.

Everyone say it with me: Go Chanda!

18 January 2003

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