NEW YORK — Asked about the U.S. Tennis Association trying to find the "next Donald Young," the former teen prodigy couldn't help but quip: "I thought they moved on from me."
Back in the second week at a major, Young can find humor in all those times his career was written off. If it seems as though he's been around forever, he has — it's been more than a decade since he played his first pro event. But at 26, he's still youthful by the standards of today's men's game.
"I never really forgot the fact that when I was 19, I wasn't going to be good ever.