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At 9:12 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, before a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd looking for another Melanie Miracle in the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Cinderella’s slipper came off. The mighty mite of this two-week event, Melanie Oudin, stopped her motion on her second serve as somebody yelled from the upper deck, “Wake up, Melanie.” The crowd hushed the creep, Oudin made the serve, soon hit one last backhand wide and walked to the net to shake hands with Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark. The run had ended. In the short term, the story is over. ESPN and CBS will have to look for new darlings, or go back to featuring the old ones. Yes, everybody, Serena Williams is still in this tournament. Oudin’s 6-2, 6-2 loss to Wozniacki ended a storybook effort by this 17-year-old from Marietta, Ga., who is 5 feet 6 and whose main tennis weapon is a desire to never quit. That worked against four straight Russians, including the likes of Elena Dementieva and Maria Sharapova. It didn’t work against the
