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...Indian government's attitude toward sports. There is very little promotion of any sport in India other than cricket, which does not help us win Olympic medals. Just participating in the Games is all that counts for many of us, including the Indian Sports Ministry. But as tennis great Martina Navratilova once remarked, "Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost." Winning matters, whether we like it or not. Ancy Kuruvilla Mapusa, India While addressing the audience at the Olympics' closing ceremonies, Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, summed up perfectly: "Greek...
They have some beautiful women combined with some pretty great tennis. It was awkward when the Williams sisters were playing by themselves. It makes it more interesting if there are two, three, four more players in the mix. That's why the women's game was doing so well. [Martina] Hingis was in the picture; Steffi [Graf] was there. People had more feeling about the players. There are too many other options for fans to not do a better job of that. The players have to realize that. If they had any idea of what Billie Jean [King...
...MARTINA NAVRATILOVA, 47, became the oldest woman to win a singles match at Wimbledon in 82 years last week. Though she lost the next round, that first game put her in the company of several other graying jocks who outplayed younger peers...
That may not be enough. After all, tennis lessons have been around longer than Martina Navratilova. A website adds convenience, but "standing alone, the Tennis Welcome Center program will have marginal impact," contends Marc Ganis, president of Sportscorp Ltd. in Chicago. "What's missing is aggressive economic incentives like equipment discounts and free lessons." Jim Baugh, the former president of Wilson Sporting Goods who now heads up the Tennis Industry Association (TIA), says no tennis governing body can mandate price controls. But Web transparency can create local competition. Says Baugh: "If I'm a tennis club and I know that...
...compulsive. I'm precise," says Martha Klein (Martina Gedeck), chef of a ritzy Hamburg restaurant. Precise, sure, but her loveless life still needs a bit of leavening. That comes in two packages: her balky 8-year-old niece (Maxime Foerste) and a lavishly charming Italian sous-chef (Sergio Castellitto). The setup and payoff of this German export couldn't be more conventional, but Nettelbeck is a sharp observer of life's surprises, and Gedeck has an appraising, intelligent beauty. Her Martha is like the film: tart on the outside, sweet on the inside, with a delectable aftertaste. --By Richard Corliss