Twenty years of darkness: American men's tennis hits inglorious milestone

This year's US Open marks 20 years since an American man last won a grand slam title: a once-unthinkable drought for one of the sport's historic powerhouses. Where did it all go wrong? It started out as a trickle. In 1993, the relatively unheralded Sergi Bruguera won the first of his two consecutive French Open titles, becoming the first Spaniard to claim a men's major since Manuel Orantes' triumph at the US Open in 1975 (Arantxa Sánchez Vicario had won the women's title in Paris in 1989). Then...