Word: novotna
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...while women have always been more inclined to play from the back of the court, big-hitting groundstrokers such as Maria Sharapova and Serena and Venus Williams have all but shut the door on the serve-and-volley style ushered in by the now-retired Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotna...
...same time, nationalism is on the wane among the young professional cadre in Eastern and Central Europe. But that's good news for supporters of expansion. "I don't feel any national belonging," says Gabriela Novotna, 28, a lawyer in Prague. "We are all people living in Europe. It's all the same to me if somebody is German, French, Vietnamese or Chinese." She, for one, has no reservations about the E.U.: "The European Union will bring light into our lives...
Somewhere, Jana Novotna is smiling...
Lessons can go both ways, though. And the older players may be picking up attitude points from the younger ones. In the semifinals in Montreal between Novotna and Sanchez Vicario, Novotna seemed veritably Venusized. During the heated second set, which went to a tiebreaker, the usually elegant Czech flipped the umpire the bird. Sanchez Vicario eventually won the match. And the tournament? It went to another old lady: Monica Seles...
...preparing for the French Open in May, Hingis noted that Graf--who had just announced her return after an injury--was past her prime. ("Everyone's entitled to their own opinion," says Graf.) At Wimbledon, Venus Williams threw a volcanic tantrum over a line call in her battle against Novotna. (Novotna on the histrionics: "I don't even look at her.") And the younger crew is not shy about its narcissism. When British tabloids published pictures of Kournikova taken from behind, the athlete declared they were "great" depictions of her derriere: "Hey, it wasn't fat." She has also suggested...