Word: capriati
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...women age 35 to 64 is obese. And as much as the ideal body image has changed, there is still a lingering fear that women will begin to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sports columnist Ira Berkow, for instance, wrote approvingly in the New York Times that tennis star Jennifer Capriati is "ladylike" and "nicely toned without looking muscular...
YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL. It's a bit like going to the U.S. Open for the girls' singles, hoping to spot next year's Capriati. This annual autumn event in Manhattan offers an evening of one-act plays by aspiring dramatists, who must be under 18 at the time of submission. The works, typically, are much ado about first love and sensitive, misunderstood youth; typically, also, at least one of the sketches shows potential genius struggling toward maturity. Through...
...JENNIFER CAPRIATI...
...Italian Open in May, then won her next two tournament finals against Graf, including the French Open, where she became the youngest winner in this century of a Grand Slam title. The penultimate player Seles beat at the French was the youngest Grand Slam semifinalist ever: Jennifer Capriati, 14, who has just finished the eighth grade. Seles tends to hover around the baseline and is less than overpowering on serve, so she may not flourish on grass, although her crushing return of serve is a potent weapon on any surface. But Capriati has an aggressive all-surface game. Says veteran...
...When Capriati was three, her father Stefano, a self-taught tennis pro who emigrated from Milan, put a racquet into her hands; by the time she was four, she was fending off barrages from a ball machine and was delivered into the tutelage of Jimmy Evert, whose most famous coaching product was his daughter Christine Marie. Last year Capriati won the 18-and-under titles at the French and U.S. Opens and made the junior quarterfinals at Wimbledon...