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...case the play isn't enough to captivate viewers--although with their mix of power and finesse, it should be--there's plenty of drama to go around. Besides the marked Williams sisters, there's No. 1-ranked Martina Hingis, who has morphed from the adorable Swiss miss into the tour's trash-talking queen; Jennifer Capriati, the seemingly washed-up teen prodigy turned fitness monster and this year's dominant player; Lindsay Davenport, a California redwood, who squeezed her high school prom in around the tour and now fires shots at the other players from the safety...
...Martina Navratilova, a lesbian who has fought her own discrimination battles, agrees. "I think they've been treated with kid gloves," she says, citing a display by Richard Williams after Venus beat Davenport at last year's U.S. Open final. "If Mr. Williams had been white and done that victory dance in front of Lindsay Davenport, he would have been reprimanded much more. People have been afraid to criticize them because they don't want to be called racist...
...interesting," says third-ranked Davenport, 25, the 1998 Open winner. And she's right. Try to get the women to pose for a magazine cover en masse and you wonder how VH1 pulls off that diva show every year. "Serena is a lot more friendly than Venus, but Martina [Hingis] is not talking to either of them," said Davenport in May, before Hingis and the Williamses reached a detente. "Anna and Martina were both going for the same market, and that didn't work. They got in a huge fight in Chile. They were throwing flowers at each other...
September 1, 1972: Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology Martina S. Horner assumes Radcliffe presidency. She presides over a Radcliffe dealing with the aftermath of the “non-merger merger,” which gave Harvard control of Radcliffe’s daily operations and finances...
After a career plagued by huge expectations, a 1994 drug arrest and a rather embarrassing shoplifting incident, the former everything-that's-wrong-with-modern-sports poster girl, JENNIFER CAPRIATI, 24, finally made good on all of her promise by whupping Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-3 in the final of the Australian Open, notching her first-ever Grand Slam tournament. "I got the chills," said Capriati, who wept after slamming a backhand winner on the first match point past Hingis for the championship. Hingis, 20, had never lost to Capriati in five previous matches, but Capriati actually used...