Italian Singles: Noah, Vilas Breeze Into Italian Final
There were only two dozen courts in the entire West African nation of Cameroun when Yannick Noah started playing tennis there in the late 1960s.There will be 10 more, uncharacteristically open to native youngsters, when Noah finishes building an as-yet unnamed club in his home city of Yaounde later this summer. And there is no telling how much tennis interest would be generated in Cameroun if Noah -- now a promising 20-year-old pro who plays for France -- beats Guillermo Vilas Sunday to...
Italian Singles: TIRED OF BEING ALONE? JOIN THE CLUB!
LOCAL SINGLES FIND COMFORT IN NUMBERS
What do you do if you are single, widowed or divorced, are tired of the same old bar scene but aren`t quite ready for the retirement home? Many think they have found the answer or, at least a pleasant alternative, in singles clubs. No longer the dirty words they once were, singles clubs have attained a new level of sophistication in the `80s that seemed unimaginable even as little as a decade ago. ``It used to be Parents Without Parents and...
Italian Singles: Tennis: Keretic's dance just cosmetic
Ivan Lendl and Mats Wilander have costed into the third round of the Italian singles championship at a cost of only eight games each. In the past five years both have twice passed the clay-court game's supreme test by winning the French title. They will be back in Paris on May 25 and current form suggests that they will be awfully hard to stop.It is easy to take people for granted when they play as well and win as easily a as Lendl and Wilander have been playing and winning...
Italian Singles: EX-FAMU STAR GIBSON TOOK THE TOUGH ROAD
Ahead of her time doesn't begin to tell the story of Althea Gibson.But two facts culled from the end of her life do, and they remind us how painful it is to be a pioneer sometimes. The first is that when the former Florida A&M athlete died Sunday in a New Jersey hospital at age 76, she was just about broke.The second is that it wasn't until almost four decades after her own victory at Wimbledon that another black woman, Zina Garrison, graced that...
Italian Singles: Althea Gibson was too far ahead of her time
Ahead of her time doesn't begin to tell the story of Althea Gibson. But two facts culled from the end of her life do, and they remind us how painful it is to be a pioneer sometimes.The first is that when Gibson died Sunday in a New Jersey hospital at age 76, she was just about broke.The second is that it wasn't until almost four decades after her own victory at Wimbledon that another black woman, Zina Garrison, graced that lawn in a championship match, and...
