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WHAT HAPPENED WAS THIS by Josh Greenfeld (Carroll & Graf; $18.95). This zesty comic novel about a young man's climb from Catskills waiter to Hollywood film director who testifies against his left-wing friends during the McCarthy era could have been called What Makes Sammy...
...lost her fourth-round Wimbledon match to the No. 1 seeded Steffi Graf. So what? In a sport of whining millionaires, the 14-year-old U.S. phenom was endearing and ebullient in defeat: "I enjoyed being out there with her. I thought she was just great." Love match...
...ninth victory plate to the eight she once described as a complete dinner service, she must surpass a field in which everyone else is younger and the hottest players are from twelve to nearly 20 years her junior. Her main worry, Graf, has become almost an obsession. Since Graf wrested away the No. 1 ranking three years ago, they have met only five times, and Graf has won the last four. Twice Navratilova was within shouting distance of victory only to lose through what looked like sheer nerves. If she can couple a Wimbledon victory with a vindicating triumph over...
...younger and younger sport. We've seen something similar in gymnastics and swimming, and now we're seeing it here." The fastest-rising women are actually girls. Monica Seles, 16, beat Navratilova in the finals of the 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...
...year-olds are playing now with net worths around $15 million to $20 million. It's natural their desire will drop." Billie Jean King, who competed at Wimbledon until age 39, partly because the big-money days came along late in her career, agrees about the prevalence of burnout: "Graf has lost her intensity, and emotionally she's not there. Becker seems to be just going through the motions. Edberg...