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Monica Seles - Wikipedia  Monica Seles is a former Yugoslav world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. An ethnic Hungarian, she was born and raised in Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia. She became a naturalized American citizen in 1994 and also received ... In 1990, Seles became the youngest-ever French Open champion at the age...
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Martina Hingis - Wikipedia  Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980) is a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently ... She was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by ... In 1993, 12-year-old Hingis became the youngest player to win a Grand Slam ...... 1997: Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year.
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Tracy Austin - Wikipedia  Tracy Ann Austin Holt (born December 12, 1962) is an American former World No. 1 retired professional tennis player. She won three Grand Slam titles, winning the women's singles title at the US ... Austin then became the youngest ever US Open champion, aged 16 years ..... Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year.
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Monica Seles facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Monica Seles was born December 2, 1973, in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, to Karolj ... juniors titles. winning the European 12-and-under championship when she was ten, ... Soon after she won the Sportswoman of the Year honors, her family flew to Florida, ... Seles had become the youngest player to capture a Grand Slam final.
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MONICA SELES - Oldrich Kyn  When she was six years old, her father introduced her to tennis. ... At the age of eight, she won a major European tournament for players twelve and under, ... and became the youngest woman to be named Yugoslavia's Sportswoman of the Year. In 1985, while playing in a tournament in Florida, Seles caught the eye of Nick...
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Nadia Comaneci - Athlete, Gymnast - Biography.com  2 days ago ... At age 14, Nadia Comaneci became the first woman to score a ... Early Life and Career; 1976 Olympic Games; 1980 Olympics and Later Years ... That is my secret. ... At the 1980 Olympics, Comaneci won gold medals for the balance ... Nadia Comaneci, July 1976 (Photo:&nbsp;Central Press/Getty Images)...
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40 LOVE Moments: The Youngest No.1 - WTA  Apr 5, 2013 ... Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tennis rankings & scores - the home of women's tennis. ... the youngest player ever to win a Grand Slam title in the juniors; and in 1996 ... Hingis officially ascended to No.1 on Monday, March 31, 1997, ... 1997 season was an historic one in many ways for the Swiss Miss.
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Martina Hingis | Swiss tennis player | Britannica.com  Swiss professional tennis player who became the youngest person in the open ... Hingis, who was named for the legendary tennis player Martina Navratilova, was ... At 12 she became the youngest-ever Grand Slam junior titlist when she won the ... Soon after her pro debut, the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) instituted...
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Babe Didkrikson Zaharias and the Cold War Politics of Gender  Yet in that short period she became the most fabled women golfer in history, ... her predictions, and kept her brash and quotable persona in the public eye. ..... her dreamthe American dreamto buy a nice little house in the suburbs, ... She was also named AP Women's Athlete of the Year, an award she won first in 1932,...
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Nadia Comaneci | Beams, Gymnasts and World - Pinterest  Inspiring gymnastics quote from Olympic champion Nadia Comaneci. ... Natalia Shaposhnikova (USSR) on balance beam at the 1978 World Championships .... Comaneci, Romania - famous for her perfect score of 10 in 1976 for the first time in the world when she was just 14. .... Ways To Work Out Smarter, Not Harder.
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Martina Hingis - Wikipedia  Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980) is a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 2 in doubles by the WTA. She spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles world No. .... In 1997, Hingis became the undisputed World No. 1 ... In March, she became the youngest top ranked player in history. In July...
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Olympics Timeline: 1990s to the Present Day - Infoplease  The U.S. wins five gold medals, all by female athletes: speed-skater Bonnie Blair, ... 13-year-old Fu Mingxia of China wins the platform diving event, making her the ... over the age of 23 are allowed on each team, effectively making the Olympic ... They also win gymnastics, with the help of Kerri Strug, who nails her second...
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A brief history of Olympic Figure Skating | InFocus  One of the earliest figure skating pioneers was Norway's Sonja Henie. ... East Germany's Katarina Witt became one of the best known figure skaters of the 1980s. ... title to become the first woman figure skater to repeat as Olympic champion (she ... Since 1988, Getty Images has been the Authorised Photo Agency for the IOC.
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Olympic speed skater Jansen falls after sister dies - Feb 14, 1988 ...  At his first Olympics, in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, he finished 16th in the 500 meters but came within a fraction ... In 1994, he won a second World Sprint Championship. ... In what became a memorable Olympic moment, Jansen took a victory lap around the ice carrying his young daughter Jane, named for his late sister.
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Tara Lipinski | American figure skater | Britannica.com  Lipinski planned for Olympic gold for most of her life. ... years, and when her family moved to Houston in 1991 she focused on that sport. ... Later that month she won her first professional competition, Skate TV, with a perfect score of all 10s. ... Winning her first world title at the age of 14, she was the youngest champion until...
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Janet Lynn - Wikipedia  Janet Lynn Nowicki is an American figure skater. She is the 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time world championships ... Ladies' figure skating ... In 1964, at 11, she became the youngest skater to pass the rigorous eighth and final ... At the time she was 14 years old and it was her first major international competition.
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Kim Zmeskal - OlyWa.Net  Nov 2, 2001 ... Kim Zmeskal had the world on her shoulders at the 1992 Olympics. ... in September of 1991 at the age of fifteen, she was the first American, ... and the Women's Sports Foundation honored her with the "1990 Up .... comeback just before the 1996 Olympics with the help of her former .... since April 22, 1997.
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Nadia Comneci - Wikipedia  Nadia Elena Comneci is a Romanian gymnast who, at the age of 14, became the first gymnast in Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. She would eventually go on to receive six more perfect 10s in Montreal as .... A few months later, at the age of 14, Comneci made history at the 1976...
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Nadia Comneci - Wikipedia  Nadia Elena Comneci is a Romanian gymnast who, at the age of 14, became the first gymnast in Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. She would eventually go on to receive six more perfect 10s in Montreal as ... Comneci was training with Krolyi by the time she was 7 years old, in 1968.
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Maureen Connolly facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  She is rememberd as a pioneer of women's tennis, who made significant ... Connolly entered her first tennis tournament shortly after she began to play at the age of ten ... affectionately as "Little Mo," after she won the national junior championship. ... of women's tennis with a series of wins known as the Grand Slam of Tennis.
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ESPN Classic - Graf, queen of the lawn - ESPN.com  In 1982, Steffi Graf, a 13-year-old German and the youngest phenom to turn ... solely with her forehand, which Chris Evert called "the best in women's tennis." Later ... When she retired in 1999, she had won 22 majors, second only to Margaret Court's 24. ... She spent a record 377 weeks at No. 1. Soon after retiring she made...