US Olympic gold medal ski star Bode Miller is trading his poles and slopes for a racket and Hawaiian sun in a bid to qualify for the US Open tennis championship. Miller won a gold medal in super combined, a silver in Super-G and bronze in the downhill last February at the Vancouver Winter Olympics and has entered in the US Open sectional qualifying tournament that starts here on Thursday. Miller, 32, sees the event as a new competitive outlet after the Olympics and World Cup season. Tennis is not new to two-time Alpine World Cup champion Miller, a 1996 Maine state singles champion at Carrabassett Valley Academy. His family owns a tennis camp in New Hampshire. Winners from Hawaii and 15 other sectionals advance to the US national qualifying tournament in August where they will compete for a chance at a berth in the year's final Grand Slam event. 