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Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Wednesday, August 28,

2024. And we begin with the tennis spotlight on a 16-year-old Wonder Kid at the U.S. Open.

Junior player, Eva Jovitch from Torrance, California, who is currently ranked

number 389 in the world stunned the Queen's New York

crowd by taking down veteran Magda Lynette from Poland in two jaw-dropping sets Monday night.

Eva only made it into the tournament as a wild card

after winning the Billy Jean King Girls National Championship

earlier this month.

Now she's the youngest American to win an opening match at the open since 2020.

The teen will have her work cut out for her today when she faces another pro, 29th-ranked

Ekaterina Alexandrova. A solid reminder that we're still in the dog days of summer.

Today much of the mid-Atlantic and northeast will swelter in the high 90s and lower 100s, with real field

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