http://community.active.com/blogs/2008_us_open Celebrating 40 years of Open tennis. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:23:45 GMT Jive SBS 3.0.8 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2008-08-26T18:23:45Z http://community.active.com/blogs/2008_us_open/2008/08/26/pilot-pen-the-tourney-that-time-forgot <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:54150d42-a202-4ee7-82e4-1eaa8444e3f5] --><div class='jive-rendered-content'><p><a href="http://community.active.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-9818-5366/marin_cilic_ap_fred_beckham.jpg"><img height="349" src="http://community.active.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-9818-5366/512-349/marin_cilic_ap_fred_beckham.jpg" width="512"/></a> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>Like having a birthday just before Christmas, you kind of get overlooked.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>Marin Cilic captured his first career ATP title with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 victory over Mardy Fish in the Pilot Pen Tennis in New Haven last Saturday.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>While all the major media sites were preparing for the US Open, there was still a battle to be one in the last US Open Series tournament before the Open, the Pilot Pen Tennis. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>But you wouldn't know it from the front pages of ESPN Tennis, Tennis.com and Sports Illustrated, which had large, blaring images of Rafael Nadal with headlines like, "Can Rafa Handle No. 1?" Even the tournament's own site, pilotpentennis.com, didn't refresh their front page at all during the small Connecticut tournament.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>Just as all God's children go to heaven, all children of tennis deserve a headline. Sorry, Cilic, your first ATP title went hardly noticed in the shadow of the last Slam of the season.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>(Photo: AP/Fred Beckham)</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:54150d42-a202-4ee7-82e4-1eaa8444e3f5] --> tennis nadal 2008_us_open cilic pilot_pen Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:25:37 GMT active_tennis http://community.active.com/blogs/2008_us_open/2008/08/26/pilot-pen-the-tourney-that-time-forgot 2008-08-26T18:25:37Z 1 year, 3 months ago 0 http://community.active.com/blogs/2008_us_open/comment/pilot-pen-the-tourney-that-time-forgot http://community.active.com/blogs/2008_us_open/feeds/comments?blogPost=9818