The comeback victory by the 17-year-old American marked her second straight shocker at New York's Billie Jean King Tennis Center, coming after a 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 win over fourth-seeded Elena Dementieva Thursday.
"I don't even know what to say right now," Oudin, a Marietta, Ga., native, told the crowd. "I think I got a pretty lucky. (Sharapova) double faulted a couple of times. Thank you for cheering for me."
Elsewhere, 13th-seeded Nadia Petrova of Russia, Oudin's next opponent, beat China's Jie Zheng 6-4, 6-1, and Argentina's Gisela Dulko topped Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova 6-3, 6-4.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
Congratulations to Melanie,
Congratulations to Melanie, I can't believe she won.
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