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...with Germany's Anna-Lena Groenefeld, 20, to win the Canadian Open. The oldest player on the women's tour, Navratilova plans to play a full doubles schedule this year--and improve on her showing at last year's Grand Slams, in which she reached the doubles semifinals of Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. She says she may even play singles "on the grass"--at Wimbledon, which she has won a record nine times--"if the body's feeling good and the game...
...tennis, we’ll ignore the women’s team’s recent upsets of 6th-ranked Georgia and 15th-ranked Texas Christian, and no one will mention that freshman Beier “Bibi” Ko played in the junior tournament at Wimbledon before arriving at Harvard, among other players with international experience...
...competitions. Four years ago China decided to strengthen its women's tennis team and started to allow athletes to spend more time on the WTA tour. Still, China's top women?currently required to hand over up to 65% of their earnings to the state?were obliged to skip Wimbledon last year in order to train for the National Games, a domestic version of the Olympics. "We believe that winning the National Games is the greatest joy," says Yan, who won the national doubles title with Zheng in October. "Foreigners are more individualistic and care about their WTA ranking...
...Steffi Graff vs. the Ghost of Monica Seles With Wimbledon, French and U.S. Open victories, Fraulein Forehand had her best year. And still people wondered: What if Seles had not been stabbed on the court by a man who said he did it to help Steffi be No. 1? (He was later convicted but sentenced to only two years' probation...
...going to play Wednesday and we'll be seeded number 2. We drew the tough French tandem of Arnaud Clement and Sebastian Grosjean as our first match. We are one and one with this team. They beat us at Indian Wells two years ago and we got them at Wimbledon in June. After practice, we were pumped and ready to go. We signed autos and did photos and then went to the players lounge for lunch, after which we headed back to the hotel. We want to be rested up and ready for our big match...