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Seles shows no sign of any foot problems in winning.
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Monica Seles, showing no effects of the
foot injury that hampered her last season, beat Anna Kournikova
7-6 (7-6), 6-4 Saturday night in the Minnesota Tennis Challenge.
A crowd of 9,244 showed up for the exhibition at the Xcel Energy Center.
Seles, who finished the 2002 season ranked No. 7 on the WTA tour,
had her return game working well and served up three aces in the final
game to finish off Kournikova
Just because the match didn't count for anything didn't mean they didn't
care.
Kournikova, who led 5-3 in the first set, slammed a ball into the net after
losing a point during the tie-breaker and earlier glared at the umpire when
he read the score wrong.
''It's 30-all,'' she said with a shake of her head and a slight roll of her
eyes.
Kournikova, the 35th-ranked player on the tour who is better known for her
bare midriff than her success on tour, kept Seles busy on the baseline but
faded in the second set.
Still searching for her first tour title, Kournikova will play in the
Sydney International in January to tune up for the Australian Open.
Though Seles is eight years older and far more accomplished Kournikova,
the two are friends and have faced off in a number of exhibitions. They
left St. Paul on Saturday night for Canada, where they were scheduled to
play Sunday in another friendly exhibition in Winnipeg.
This was the first match in the Twin Cities area involving major pro players
since Team USA beat Sweden in 1992 Davis Cup competitionin Minneapolis.
The inexperience showed. A couple fans were chided by the umpire for
yelling just before a serve, and Kournikova was annoyed on more than one
occasion by ballgirls and judges being out of position.
Kournikova had never played in Minnesota before, and the last time Seles
competed here was in a 1991 exhibition against Mary Jo Fernandez.
Seles was the top-ranked player in the world at the time.
As a prelude, the flamboyant doubles duo of brothers Luke and Murphy
Jensen -- wearing Minnesota Wild jerseys and wireless microphones -- faced
the University of Minnesota's top doubles team in an eight-game pro set.
Aleksey Zharinov and Thomas Haug overcame a constant stream of good-natured
taunting and ''won'' 8-7.After an unforced error by Zharinov, Luke quipped,
''I'm sorry, Gophers. Is the net high?''
Murphy responded, ''That's only the second point, Luke.''
''I know, but it's going good,'' Luke said.
David Wheaton, a Minnesotan who played 13 years on the ATP tour and
reached the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1991, was the emcee.
Once during the doubles match, Wheaton asked the Jensens, ''What do you
think Anna's doing right now? Doing her hair?'' Wheaton, who's growing a
bit thin on top, didn't know Kournikova was watching.
''I'm sorry you don't have any hair to do,'' she said with a laugh.
The event also included abridged matches between some of the state's top
girls and boys players as well as a ''celebrity'' doubles competition
mixing the Jensens with a pair of Twin Cities radio deejays.
來源自 http://espn.go.com/tennis/news/2002/1215/1477200.html
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