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There have always been compelling rivalries in women's tennis: Billie Jean King and Margaret Court; Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert; Steffi Graf and Monica Seles. And young, talented players, overwhelmed by the pressures of success, have often alienated their tour mates. But in the past, there was room for just two great rivals at a time. "Now," says Butch Buchholz, chairman of the Lipton and Pilot Pen tournaments, "we have a handful of names that sell tickets, which makes the appeal wider and the product just better...
Wang, who is currently ranked 23rd individually in the country, easily defeated OSU's Martina Hautova, 6-0, 6-3, to pace the Crimson...
...Music Awards, Matraca Berg picked up a Song of the Year trophy for Strawberry Wine, co-written with Gary Harrison. That was a ho-hum: the Nashville scribe has penned prime bedroom and barroom laments for Reba McEntire (Last One to Know), Trisha Yearwood (XXX's and OOO's), Martina McBride (Wild Angels), Patty Loveless (You Can Feel Bad) and other country thrushes. But that same night, Berg sang Back When We Were Beautiful, about a widow recalling her one and only love, and put so much ache and age into it you could hear a collective heart breaking...
...Olympics last year, attributable to the passage of Title IX 25 years ago, has fed the W.N.B.A. in the same way that Teresa Weatherspoon (T-Spoon) feeds Sophia Witherspoon (Serving Spoon) for the New York Liberty. Indeed, these are halcyon days for women's sports. Tennis star Martina Hingis has won more money so far this year than such athletes as Tiger Woods and Pete Sampras. The Women's Professional Fastpitch softball league, concentrated in the Southeast, has been pulling in fans and TV viewers in surprising numbers. Two new magazines (SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Women/Sport and Conde Nast's Sports...
...ranked 29th nationally, expected the contest to be a neck-in-neck clash of two regional powers, as the 72nd-ranked Eagles (6-4) boasted a solid record against other Ivy teams and featured heavily-recruited transfer Barbara Prevail, a former junior doubles partner of new world No. 1 Martina Hingis. The Crimson's star sophomore Ivy Wang was forced to take on the mysterious phenom...