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Navratilova and Lendl both bypassed June's French Open, one of the sport's four Grand Slam events and a pivotal factor in determining the No. 1 ranking that Lendl has and that Navratilova aches to regain from Steffi Graf. They / stayed away because the slow brick-dust surface in Paris rewards tactics that are entirely different from what works on the fast and often bumpy grass at Wimbledon. With only two weeks between the tournaments, there was too little time to shift gears. Clay-court players typically stay back near the baseline and trade shots until an opponent makes...
...seeing it here." The fastest-rising women are actually girls. Monica Seles, 16, beat Navratilova in the finals of the Italian Open in May, then won her next two tournament finals against Graf, including the French Open, where she became the youngest winner in this century of a Grand Slam title. The penultimate player Seles beat at the French was the youngest Grand Slam semifinalist ever: Jennifer Capriati, 14, who has just finished the eighth grade. Seles tends to hover around the baseline and is less than overpowering on serve, so she may not flourish on grass, although her crushing...
...offs now include 16 of the N.B.A.'s 27 teams and last well into June, when the heat in old arenas like the Boston Garden can be stifling? Right again: so TV can have more potentially high-rated games. And if television didn't exactly create showboating antics like slam dunks in basketball and end-zone dances in football -- well, what better way to make the evening's sports-highlight reel...
...Hawks rallied to tie the game at 14-14. Roger Williams scored next, but Valasek answered with in emphatic slam...
...then March Madness became the madness of March 4. Playing in the semifinals of the Big West tournament, Loyola-Marymount's Hank Gathers collapsed after a slam dunk. The NCAA's leading scorer and rebounder from a year ago, Gathers was a blue-chipper, a can't-miss, a superstar...