Melanie Oudin: "Come ON!"

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We all love the 17 year old, 5'6" Russian-slaying American in Melanie Oudin. She's gutsy, athletic, and can strike a pretty good ball too. Her versatile play however is lacking desperately in one department, the motivational shout-out.

Melanie has been watching Lleyton Hewitt a bit too much and she's reaching a critical point of shout-out maturation where she can either officially co-own "Come on", or evolve her self-motivational practices and add a few more of these crowd pleasing phrases. This evolution is natural, and will help Oudin take things to the next level.

Let's take a look at five of Oudin's options...

1. "Let's Go!" - A classic used by both the men and women for years. If she is coming ("Come on"), then she should also add the going.
2. "Yes I Can!" - Obama told American that they can, Oudin can put this to practice.
3. "You're Not The Boss of Me!!!" - She's 17, I can't think of a better display of defiance out there for the young teenager.
4. "Like, Come'on!" - She's also blond and yes, still a teenager. Adding "Like" is a simple addition that won't throw her off too much as this evolution takes place.
5. "Ostav'te menja v pokoe" - As we've noted, she's a teenager, and a Russian-slayer. What could be more perfect that picking up some tongue of her fallen Russian foe? "Ostav'te menja v pokoe" reads "Leave Me Alone!" in English. Ooo, that would get her opponents water boiling!

All in good fun folks!
Enjoy the tennis.

MarkOskar

The Tennis News Authority

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