Tennis
Women's Singles Competition
- Natasha Zvereva
- First round — Defeated Sabine Appelmans (Belgium) 7-5 6-3
- Second round — Defeated Amanda Coetzer (South Africa) 6-1 4-6 6-2
- Third round — Lost to Conchita Martínez (Spain) 2-6 5-7
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Famous quotes containing the word tennis:
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“[My one tennis book] was very, very old. It had a picture of Bill Tilden. I looked at the picture and that was how I learned to hold the racket.”
—Maria Bueno (b. 1939)
“The boneless quality of English conversation, which, so far as I have heard it, is all form and no content. Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)