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Daily Bagel: USTA's Australian Open wild-card playoff

The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet. • The USTA wild-card playoff tournament starts today
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The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet.

• The USTA wild-card playoff tournament starts today in Florida, with the winners earning a spot in the Australian Open main draw next month. Tennis Grandstand takes a look at the players who are in the mix, many of whom, like Jack Sock, Madison Keys and Taylor Townsend, represent the future of American tennis.

• A bit of a battle is brewing over the expansion of Sportime Randall's Island, a tennis facility in New York that is one of the few places left providing court time for recreational and professional tennis players.

• Steve Tignor is counting down his list of the top matches of the year. The list has been tough to argue with so far. Here he takes a look at the brutal U.S. Open final between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

• ESPN is counting down its 100 memories for 2011. It's almost halfway there.

• In case you missed it in May, be sure to read S.L. Price's lengthy profile on Novak Djokovic for Sports Illustrated.

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Courtney Nguyen
COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.

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