Word: sabatini
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gabriela Sabatini, the most glamorous woman on the pro tennis circuit if not the hardest hitting, is retiring. She has had a bad year, but says that isn't the reason for quitting. "Now I'll be able to do the things I couldn't do while playing," says Sabatini, who made almost $9 million from tennis. Fans can content themselves with her brand of perfumes and home items...
...annoyed at the way she was treated by her sisters on the tour. "They were supportive of me the day I was stabbed," she told the New York Times, "but by the next Monday in Rome they were already standing up to take my ranking away. Gabby [Gab riela] Sabatini was the only person who thought of me as a human being and not as a ranking position they wanted to grab...
Since the late '80s, we have been asked to believe that Elizabeth Taylor, Julio Iglesias, Herb Alpert, Gabriela Sabatini, Joan Collins, Princess Stephanie, Dionne Warwick, Liza Minnelli, Sophia Loren and, of course, Cher are people whose eponymous perfumes are better than fragrances to which the names of show people have not been appended. Certainly Julio, Liz and Joan are people whom we instinctively believe to be intensely scented, but do even the buyers of White Diamonds imagine that Taylor concocted the stuff...
...admires Gabriela Sabatini's intense serve-and-volley game, likes Michael Chang "because he's short," and loves Stefan Edberg--well, because he's Stefan...
...tabloids quickly dubbed her "Moan-ica" and demanded, "Stop that grunt!" One writer, claiming to have monitored her with a "gruntometer," said the noises coming out of the 18-year-old registered 93 decibels, about what a diesel train would produce. The grunts emitted by Gabriela Sabatini and Jennifer Capriati were deemed dulcet whimpers compared with Monica's. Countered Seles: "I don't think I'm going to win a match because I'm grunting...