WIMBLEDON, England As a tyke growing up in Marietta, Ga., Melanie Oudin would watch Venus and Serena Williams on TV and tell anyone who would listen that she was going to play at Wimbledon, too, one ...

... played some good tennis." Levine wasn't the only U.S. qualifier to pull off a surprise Tuesday: 17-year-old Melanie Oudin of Marietta, Ga., won a Grand Slam match for the first time, beating the 29th-seeded woman, Sybille Bammer ...

... 2004 champion Maria Sharapova lost in the second round but there are some new faces. Most notably: 124th-ranked Melanie Oudin, a 17-year-old from Marietta, Ga., who had to go through qualifying to get into the women's draw; and 46th ...

... Dementieva were never challenged in their straight-set victories. One surprising run ended in the fourth round. Melanie Oudin, a 17-year-old qualifier from Marietta, Ga., who never won a Grand Slam match before last week, lost to No ...