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Both girls are pretty and athletic, and Stevie eagerly volunteers to cover their matches.

Stevie is enamored of rising Russian-American tennis star Nadia Symanova and is excited about seeing her in person, but he's equally spellbound by Brendan's top prospect, fifteen-year-old Evelyn Rubin, after meeting her. Open looks to be a unique thrill for the kid journalists who made such a splash at the NCAA basketball championship.

Stevie and Susan Carol's press contacts get them up-close access alongside the adult reporters, and Susan Carol's Uncle Brendan, an up-and-coming tennis agent, grants them personal interviews with the modest stable of players he represents. The sport's biggest stars are set to compete, some who were actual professional players-Serena Williams, Andy Roddick, Maria Sharapova, Lisa Raymond, Thomas Johansson, Jonas Björkman, and Roger Federer, to name a few-and others made up for this book. And that's precisely what happens in Flushing, New York, at America's most prestigious annual tennis tournament. Open several months after the NCAA adventure, their reputation as extraordinary journalists would be sealed if they were to untangle another case of skullduggery blind luck couldn't explain that happening again to the same two kids. When Stevie and Susan Carol negotiate an arrangement to have them cover the tennis U.S. The two thirteen-year-old sportswriters improbably leveraged their wits and pluck to break wide open a story of major corruption in college basketball after winning a contest allowing them special access to the Final Four NCAA tournament, but that's the way luck works sometimes. This book is where Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson's legacy as journalists is defined.

But they don't even come close to the shocking truth. Was she kidnapped? Did she run? Is she even still alive? The rumors are growing wilder by the hour. Everyone is looking for Natalia-including Stevie and Susan Carol. Somewhere between the locker rooms and the Louis Armstrong Court, one of the most-watched players of the tournament simply vanishes. The behind-the-scenes action in the world of professional tennis is overwhelming and occasionally bewildering, but it turns downright inconceivable when a young Russian phenom, Natalia Makarova, disappears right before her second-round match. The two hopeful sports reporters have kept in touch after their wild time at the Final Four, and when Susan Carol manages to score a press pass to cover the first week of the US Open Tennis Tournament in New York, Stevie works out a way to be there as well.

Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson return in another fast-paced, action-packed sports mystery from bestselling sports writer John Feinstein.