CBS really does serve a purpose

It allows me to realize that there is a tennis network more contemptible than ESPN. If you are not a tennis fan and you happen to tune in to the U.S. Open, you are apt to believe that women do not play professional tennis. There is not a woman to be seen, except for an occasional last game or last point of a game. This, despite the fact that there were matches between Justine Henin-Hardenne and Shahar Peer, Lindsay Davenport and Patty Schnyder, and a big upset of Svetlana Kuznetsova by Jelena Jankovic.

The USA Network hasn't done much better. There have been some women's night matches (world number one Amelie Mauresmo has yet to appear in a televised night match, while Maria Sharapova has played in two), but during the day, it has mostly been men.

Some of the men's matches were outstanding, but others were relentlessly boring. However, they featured Americans, so they must be seen at all costs. Of course, Lindsay Davenport is an American, but she is not a man.