Mauresmo: Martina card 'penalizes' French players
Monday, May 24, 2004
Associated Press
PARIS -- Martina Navratilova's return to Grand Slam singles after a 10-year abs
ence is generating plenty of talk -- not all of it positive.
Amelie Mauresmo thinks a young French player should have received the wild card
that organizers gave the 47-year-old Navratilova.
"We're lucky enough to have a Grand Slam in our country. Obviously, we want Fre
nch players to get priority," the third-seeded Mauresmo said Monday after beati
ng Ludmila Cervanova 6-3, 6-3.
"I think the tournament hoped Martina would create more of an event and would p
robably attract more people," said Mauresmo, France's top player. "It's obvious
that this penalizes the young French players."
Still a top doubles player, Navratilova asked for a singles wild card at the Fr
ench Open this year, which she has said will be her last on tour.
In her first singles match at a major since 1994, Navratilova faces Argentine t
een Gisela Dulko on Tuesday. Navratilova won the French Open in 1982 and 1984,
two of her 18 Grand Slam singles championships.
Mauresmo said she and Navratilova have talked tennis on several occasions but n
ot much came of it.
"She has a very rigid way of looking at things. That didn't suit me very well,"
Mauresmo said.
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