Word: opening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finished a spectacular run by Ingram with 6:54 remaining to tie the game at 4-4. Ingram rolled down the right sideline and cut into the circle, where she deked Agulay and fed the ball to the weak side, where Dick collected it and punched it into the open...
...Venus and Serena, has proved a delightful exception to all that. Williams has redefined the figure of the stage parent by being wildly ambitious for his two girls and yet at the same time wildly loving. The history of paternal nonsense has never seen his like. Before the U.S. Open started, he told the press that his daughters would definitely play each other in the finals. (He turned out to be half right.) "It's not that there aren't talented players here," said Williams in reference to the likes of Monica Seles, Martina Hingis and Wimbledon champion Lindsay Davenport...
Pressed by Lauer to predict which of his daughters would prevail in the Open, his refusal to answer was as full of protective affection as of cuteness and tact. (He said, "A Williams.") Earlier in the week, when informed of Outrageous Statement No. 10,000 that her dad had made, Serena, who won the whole shebang, rolled her eyes slightly heavenward, the way that only a normally dad-mortified daughter would...
...latter shouldn't be a problem as the young frosh has resolved not to let other students "bend [his] morals." While Smith was demonstrating wisdom beyond his years, MANNY HERSHKOWITZ was proving he was young at heart. The 82-year-old made his debut at the U.S. Open tennis championships in Forest Hills, N.Y.--as a ball boy. "I'm in good shape," he reports. "If they invite me back next year, I'll be here...
SERENA WILLIAMS Beats world's No. 1 and 2, wins U.S. Open, avenges sister's defeat, lives up to dad's bluster. What a winner...