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...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...
...veterans, the teen churlishness has been like a tonic. Lindsay Davenport, who most recently beat Hingis at the Acura in Los Angeles in early August, has taken three tournaments in a row this summer. "She's playing the best tennis by far at the moment," says Martina Navratilova. The self-deprecating Californian has never sought the spotlight and has suffered from criticism of her weight. Now, she's 25 lbs. lighter and many times fitter. Two weeks ago, she was sitting down for a makeover and being filmed by a network TV show. Davenport, 22, says she's not "looking...