Of Tennis & June

[Abishai100]

A Seles-Graf (women's pro-tennis) rivalry for sports-windows clover. Happy Thanksgiving!




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Mr. Amlan Satan worked on a special '92 French Open women's tennis championship storyboard concerning the pronounced Graf-Seles rivalry that yielded an epic 3-set 6-3, 3-6, 10-8 final score, with Seles hoisting the trophy in the end. Graf had become the predictable indomitable darling of Germany for women's tennis until upstart-Yugoslav Seles burst onto the scene and made this the most unforgettable rivalry in all of women's sports. Mr. Amlan Satan wished to catch the color and shine of such contest-imagery for Earthling nets of simplified superstition.



As a male fan of sports-media culture, Mr. Amlan Satan touted varied men's rivalries between individuals (e.g., Becker-Edberg in men's pro-tennis) and teams (e.g., Duke-UNC men's college basketball), but the Seles-Graf '92 French Open championship typified his media-age curiosity about those superstitious bonds between social activity and Earth-race consciousness for all. He began composing a special '92 French toast story about a fictional fan at the stadium in which Seles proved the winner on the day in the epic show. Graf, serving as Germany's star coming out of the shadows of WWII, was now suddenly eclipsed by Seles who had her own nation-background 'troubles' at the time (Yugoslav-Wars). This was something no male sports fan/writer of a media-age would simply neglect (Facebook-like).



READER: You're secretly a Seles-biased tennis fan, eh?
AMLAN SATAN: Look, Graf had become predictably dominant, sure.
READER: Well, Seles/Graf equally represented nation troubles (ok).
AMLAN SATAN: There's no bigger rivalry in women's sports (ever).
READER: Do you doubt Seles and Graf envied one another?
AMLAN: After that '92 French epic, I don't doubt such matter (sure).
READER: Media windows for tales of male-female vanities, huh.
AMLAN: Good for Martian gossip (antiterrorism).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

A Seles-Graf (women's pro-tennis) rivalry for sports-windows clover. Happy Thanksgiving!




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Mr. Amlan Satan worked on a special '92 French Open women's tennis championship storyboard concerning the pronounced Graf-Seles rivalry that yielded an epic 3-set 6-3, 3-6, 10-8 final score, with Seles hoisting the trophy in the end. Graf had become the predictable indomitable darling of Germany for women's tennis until upstart-Yugoslav Seles burst onto the scene and made this the most unforgettable rivalry in all of women's sports. Mr. Amlan Satan wished to catch the color and shine of such contest-imagery for Earthling nets of simplified superstition.

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As a male fan of sports-media culture, Mr. Amlan Satan touted varied men's rivalries between individuals (e.g., Becker-Edberg in men's pro-tennis) and teams (e.g., Duke-UNC men's college basketball), but the Seles-Graf '92 French Open championship typified his media-age curiosity about those superstitious bonds between social activity and Earth-race consciousness for all. He began composing a special '92 French toast story about a fictional fan at the stadium in which Seles proved the winner on the day in the epic show. Graf, serving as Germany's star coming out of the shadows of WWII, was now suddenly eclipsed by Seles who had her own nation-background 'troubles' at the time (Yugoslav-Wars). This was something no male sports fan/writer of a media-age would simply neglect (Facebook-like).

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READER: You're secretly a Seles-biased tennis fan, eh?
AMLAN SATAN: Look, Graf had become predictably dominant, sure.
READER: Well, Seles/Graf equally represented nation troubles (ok).
AMLAN SATAN: There's no bigger rivalry in women's sports (ever).
READER: Do you doubt Seles and Graf envied one another?
AMLAN: After that '92 French epic, I don't doubt such matter (sure).
READER: Media windows for tales of male-female vanities, huh.
AMLAN: Good for Martian gossip (antiterrorism).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)

Before Monica Seles was stabbed in the back by a German fan of Graf, no one could be Monica who had risen to #1 and held that position for months. Once that happened, Graf went on to be #1 and Monica could not play at pro level ever again.


178 weeks

• According to 2 sources

But her achievements speak for themselves: 53 career singles titles; only player in the Open era to win her first six Grand Slam finals; youngest-ever winner of Roland Garros at 16; 178 weeks at No. 1 (sixth overall); bronze medalist at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

50 for 50: Monica Seles, 199…​

usopen.org

 

[Abishai100]

I totally concur with your characterization/reference of that Seles-timeline, reader.

In deed, she'd become the only one to take seriously when waged against Graf with statistics (no doubt).

You never know when sports generates stranger qualia in all irony (e.g., Munich '72).

Thanx for the response/review,

A

 

[DGS49]

The stabbing of Seles was a successful sports assassination. For reasons that seemed to go far beyond the physical, Monica never even approached the greatness that characterized her play before the stabbing. To me it was analogous to a fighter who believes himself to be invincible because of a perfect record, being brought down to earth by a humbling defeat, never to dominate again. But in Seles' case, it was not an opponent who devastated her, it was a crazy Graf fan.

I personally always root for the cuter girl in wimmin's tennis, if there is a clear leader in that regard.