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Tennis is tingling with new possibilities -- his and hers. American Michael Chang and Spaniard Arantxa Sanchez turn Paris into a dance for 17-year-olds...
...French Open was a triumph. To do it at 17 was a wonder. But Michael Chang seemed to grasp more than just the moment when he beat Ivan Lendl and Stefan Edberg in Paris to join the company of world-champion tennis players. Chang was wise enough to understand, "These two weeks are going to stay with me the rest of my life," but excited enough to imagine, "Maybe someday I'll be able to achieve something greater." More than a few days later, the sport is still tingling with his possibilities...
...with those of Spain's Arantxa Sanchez, also just 17, who, in the face of that invincible Grand Slammer Steffi Graf, took heart from the achievements of her American contemporary and turned both the female and male sides of the French Open into historic celebrations of youth. "When Chang beat Lendl ((in the fourth round))," Sanchez said, "I think then I have a chance against Steffi. Plus, look what Monica did." Monica Seles, a two-fisted Yugoslav giggler, every bit of 15, terrified Graf in their three-set semifinal. "That gave me hope," said Sanchez, who came back...
...theme of youthful impertinence, especially Chang's, rang through the tournament and carried for a distance. "It's embarrassing," grumbled John McEnroe all the way from England, where preparing for grassy Wimbledon seemed a more profitable exercise than adding to 34 years of U.S. desperation on French clay. Since Tony Trabert succeeded at Paris in 1955, not one of the grand Americans -- not Stan Smith, not Arthur Ashe, not Jimmy Connors, not McEnroe -- had ever won the French. And the brazen way Chang finally did it galled McEnroe, 30, who muttered the fairly amazing statement, "We've got to teach...
Zimmerman knocked out his Cornell opponent quickly, winning 6-3, 6-2, and Chang cruised as well...