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This was the luckiest break of his life. Had McRae hit a grand slam to win that World Series, he would likely be retired now, because he almost certainly would not have been traded the following season to Kansas City. "That's the start of the sequence," he figures, "of all the rare events that brought me to this rarest one." He had to be in the American League; there had to be a DH rule; and he probably had to be with Kansas City. "Then I had to have a son, and he had to have the talent...
Nadal, who became the first teen to win a men's Grand Slam event since Pete Sampras took the U.S. Open in 1990, stays low-key when not crushing a ball. "A dream came true for me in Paris, but I will remain the same person," Nadal tells TIME. "It would be stupid to change." Raised on the island of Majorca, Nadal has athleticism in his blood. His uncle Miguel Angel, dubbed el Carnicero (the Butcher), was a bruising defender on Spain's national soccer team. Another uncle, Toni, taught natural righty Nadal to play tennis left-handed, a serving...
...19th birthday, he ousted Federer, his idol, in a four setter in the semis at Roland Garros, spawning a rivalry with John McEnroe-Bjorn Borg potential. Nadal even apologized to the Swiss superstar for beating him. "He's already mentally tougher than Federer," says seven-time Grand Slam champion Mats Wilander. "That's scary...
...slate began encouragingly that weekend as Harvard swept Brown and split a doubleheader with Yale. In the late game with the Bulldogs, the Crimson could not overcome a first-inning grand slam in a 4-2 loss...
While on tour, deLone reached a career high ranking of 65th in the world, won $766,020 in prize money, and defeated players such as Alicia Molik, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, and Sonja Jeyaseelan in singles and doubles play. She also played at all four Grand Slam events...