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...between her “normal friends” and her “tennis friends.” While Ko says she lacked a steady social life, she did date a few people while on the co-ed tour. Her most notable beau is famed Thai tennis player Paradorn Srichaphan, who was once the top Asian player in the world and was featured on the cover of Time’s “Asian Heroes” issue. He and Ko rendezvoused at tournaments and occasional visits, but the distance proved too difficult. After a year, the relationship...
...Despite their turbo-charged race up the rankings, China's tennis prodigies haven't become celebrities across Asia like India's Sania Mirza or Thailand's Paradorn Srichaphan. Unlike other top athletes who use international competitions to hone their skills and raise their profiles, Chinese stars have a habit of emerging almost fully formed from the country's secretive sports system. In China, athletics are viewed as a tool for national glory, not individual accomplishment. During mandatory national-team training, such as the session in Jiangmen last month, China's tennis stars must sweat through seven hours of practice...
Thailand's Paradorn Srichaphan has been called Michael Chang with power?in the tennis world that's something akin to being called a glider with a jet engine. The comparison might have more to do with the scarcity of Asians among the top tier of professional men's tennis than anything else, but Srichaphan is rapidly ascending higher rungs of the ladder. The 23-year-old Thai shocked the tennis world at Wimbledon when he unseated former champion Andre Agassi, then continued a sizzling streak by winning his first atp (Association of TennisProfessionals) title in August and defeating world number...
When Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi and Marat Safin, who between them have won 21 Grand Slam titles, came up against comparative unknowns in second-round matches at Wimbledon, the world's oldest tennis tournament, they were supposed to win comfortably. But someone had forgotten to give George Bastl, Paradorn Srichaphan and Olivier Rochus the script. They blew the big guns out of the competition. In just over three hours the three stars contrived to lose to players all ranked outside the world's top 50. Third-seeded Agassi lost in three sets to Thailand's Srichaphan, while the second seed...
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