Tag Archives: Australian Open
Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis (Tennis. Born, Kosice, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 30, 1980.) To many, Martina Hingis represents unfulfilled promise. To others, it’s a matter of too much, too soon. Yet Hingis’ record is fairly impressive, although her career was undone by injuries. Born in what was then Czechslovakia and named for a tennis-playing countrywoman (Martina Navratilova), she was […]
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf (Tennis. Born, Mannheim, West Germany, June 14, 1969.) The dominant women’s tennis player of the late 1980s, Steffi Graf won five U.S. Open women’s singles titles, including her first in 1988 that completed the third Grand Slam in women’s tennis history (following Maureen Connolly in 1953 and Margaret Smith Court in 1970). That same year, […]
Vitas Gerulaitis
Vitas Gerulaitis (Tennis. Born, Brooklyn, NY, July 26, 1954; died, Southampton, NY, Sept. 18, 1994.) Leaving Columbia after his freshman year to turn pro was a good decision for Vitas K. Gerulaitis, although it generated some condemnation at the time. By 1977, Gerulaitis had broken into the top 10 money winners on the pro tour, […]
