Word: vigna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kathy Vigna, at first glance, does not look like a high-caliber tennis player. She is tall and lanky, but above all very thin, as if she could be bent in half with litle effort...
...give Vigna a racket and put her behind in a match and she is absolutely magical on the court. In yesterday's dual meet with Syracuse (won by Harvard, 9-0), Vigna twice fell behind to her number-one opponent Kathy Bradford. First, she dropped the opening set to Bradford, 7-5. But Vigna expected this. "I knew when I walked out on the court that it would be a three-setter," she said...
...Vigna the second set with a 3-0 run on games to take the second set, 6-2. But in the final set, with the score tied in games, 4-4, Bradford earned a service break on what turned out to be her most effective weapon of the day, a touch drop-shot from the baseline...
...Vigna pressed in the next game, coming in behind her return. The change in strategy helped as Vigna broke serve with ease. After holding her serve at love, Vigna broke Bradford's serve again to win the match...
...Vigna and Austrian triumphed in three sets, 6-2, 5-7, 6-2. After losing the first set, 6-7, to Chrissy Sterns and Julia Maiers, Dragomirescu and Mulvehal easily took the next two sets...