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...JANA NOVOTNA Third time's the charm as she aces Wimbledon for her first Grand Slam singles title...
...York, the past two weeks, displaying an amazing variety of shots, a real flair for the gamble, an occasional peevishness and a smile as winning as her cross-court forehand. The fact that she is 15 is both sublime and ridiculous. Her surprise victim in the quarterfinals, Jana Novotna, remarked, "She has a very light game." Pressed to elaborate, Novotna said, "You saw it. Light. Effortless...
Hingis is a special case anyway. "I don't like to rave about a 15-year-old," Collins said after the Novotna match, "but the new Martina is a real tennis player. She came to net more this afternoon than Monica Seles has in her whole career. Unlike Capriati, who relied on pure power, Martina has a sophisticated game that is only going to get stronger. Her mom may be a great teacher, but this girl has a sense of the court that can't be taught. I have just seen the future of tennis, and it's thrilling...
...flight school. He resumed his career in April 1995 and now has a chance to add a second gold medal. "My whole comeback year, prelims have been killing me every single time," Lenzi said, "but the final are great." In other events Monday, sixth-seed Jana Novotna bumped top-seeded Monica Seles from the Olympic tennis tournament, rallying from a 5-3 third-set deficit to win 7-5, 3-6, 8-6. "She played better than I did at crunch time," Seles said. The other U.S. women won, which means a semifinal showdown Wednesday between Mary Joe Fernandez...
...Novotna theorized, somewhat sourly, that the reason Seles has been able to come back so quickly is because she has a predominantly baseline game. "If she had an all-around game like Steffi's or mine, it would take her longer," said Novotna. Some observers feel Seles' instant success is an indictment of the quality of play on the women's tour. But Seles is only picking up where she left off. At 19, she had already won eight Grand Slam tournaments, and of the 10 she missed, Graf won six. During her sabbatical, Seles would watch highlights...