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...less good. There are days when she plays the best tennis she has ever played. She just has more ups and downs." When asked about her highlights of 1992, Navratilova cites two victories and, unthinkable a few years ago, a defeat by the current No. 1, Monica Seles, at Wimbledon. "I looked at the videotape, and it was much closer than I thought," she says with a smile. A couple of years ago, the sense of might-have-been would have nagged at her for months...
...Business. In the past few months alone, tragedy has followed travesty has followed cautionary tale: the former heavyweight champion of the world is serving six years in jail for rape; the most famous soccer player in the world is found to be a cocaine addict; the five-time Wimbledon champion of a decade ago, a model of grace and poise on the court, is humiliated yet again in the divorce courts. Even a show-jumping competitor in England is charged with tampering with his horse...
...106th Wimbledon tennis championships promised several Cinderella stories but delivered none. Old-timers Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe got as far as the semifinals, then were whipped. And Monica Seles, the steamrolling Serb with a shot at a Grand Slam sweep, got to the finals but lost in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1, to defending champion Steffi Graf...
...played in all the biggies. The Australian Open. The French Open. Wimbledon. The U.S. Open...
Ashe, who is a former Wimbledon and U.S. Open Tennis champion, volunteered to speak at Harvard when he read that Johnson had canceled. Ashe announced in April that he had contracted HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, from a blood transfusion...