Melanie Oudin Passed a celebrity hour at Times Square on Sunday, a day after upsetting Maria Sharapova.Melanie Oudin stepped out of a United Sates Open van in Times Square on Sunday morning and got a glimpse of the future: She is a celebrity.
Melanie Oudin looked small and uncertain as she faced a growing crowd in the middle of Times Square Sunday morning. Less than 24 hours after the biggest win of her tennis career, the 17-year-old from Marietta, Ga., was dealing with a new reality.
Melanie Oudin looked small and uncertain as she faced a growing crowd in the middle of Times Square Sunday morning. Less than 24 hours after the biggest win of her tennis career, the 17-year-old from Marietta, Ga., was dealing with a new reality.
"It's that tennis player," one teenage girl yelled to another as she whipped out her cell phone to take a picture. "The little one. The one that beat Sharapova."
Tourists and passers-by began to gather on 43rd St. Photographers jostled to get a shot of the new teenaged sensation who had just knocked out a former U.S. Open champion. Tourists and photographers jostled and yelled as everyone seemed to call her name from every direction.
The 5-foot-6 Melanie Oudin smiled nervously until the photographers began to push and shove each other. She was whisked away to a waiting car.
"It wasn't really scary. It was just really weird," Oudin said. "They all seemed to know me. It was just weird."
Melanie Oudin was presented with a cake that had her mantra Believe written on it.
Photographers (alerted by women’s tennis tour officials) crowded around to snap her picture with a tennis racket. Bystanders smiled and pointed cameras and cellphones. “She beat Sharapova,” said a pedestrian to his companions.A caterer had delivered a cake that said “NYC Loves Oudin Believe!” (Believe is her mantra). She stood beside the confection for more picture taking.It all happened pretty much wordlessly — until she was asked the inevitable question: “How do you feel?”
“Excited,” she said, smiling and stepping back into the van before it pulled away to return to the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
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