Word: martina
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BILLIE JEAN KING There were certainly better female athletes. In tennis alone, Martina Navratilova was her clear superior, and even at her peak she had a pretty hard time with Chris Evert and Margaret Court. Sheryl Swoopes is more dazzling, and Mia Hamm combines finesse and power in what may be a palimpsest for the New Athletic Woman. But before any of them, there was Billie Jean Moffitt King, 20 times a champion at Wimbledon, who changed the way we look at female athletes--and, more important, changed the way they look at one another. "She was a crusader fighting...
...singles Ghazal stomached a straight set 6-3, 6-3 loss to nationally ranked freshman Martina Nedorostova. With the victory Nedorostova improved her record to 20-7, including successes in 13 of her last 14 matches...
...singles Ghazal stomached a straight set 6-3, 6-3 loss to nationally ranked freshman Martina Nedorostova. With the victory Nedorostova improved her record to 20-7, including successes in 13 of her last 14 matches...
...Forty," an honorary association of artists whose aging members no longer find anyone younger worthy of filling vacancies left by the deceased. "If we don't ever manage to elect anybody," Bech lectures the group, "the institution will dwindle to nothing." Who would care? Not Bech's current mistress, Martina, who dismisses the Forty as "a bunch of mostly New York City has-beens electing themselves." Updike has one surprise for his beleaguered hero: the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature. Anyone who thinks this stunning recognition will at long last make Bech at age 74 happy and fulfilled underestimates...
Jain herself played solid tennis at the start of the tournament, but her success was limited by a tough draw; Jain was matched up with the tournament's top seed--Martina Nedelkova from Virginia Commonwealth University--in the first round...