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Andrew's Monica Seles Biography updated
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I have just updated Monica's biography on my website:
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/tennis/seles/biography.html

It is *not* a copy of Monica's standard WTA Tour biography, but my
own detailed appreciation of her game, followed by a review for every
year of her career.

I have edited the introduction (adding a few all-time statistics),
edited my 1990 review to mention that Monica recovered from 0/5 and
2/6 in the first-set tiebreak of the French Open final, and added a
review of 2006 (such as it was).


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Monica's Comeback
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In the week of 2nd April, Monica is due to play an exhibition against
Martina Navrátilová at the River Oaks Country Club. It is the first
in a planned series of Seles v Navrátilová exhibitions, and if they
go well, Monica may return to the WTA Tour!

http://www.monicaseles.vze.com/
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Monica is supposedly in the best shape of her life, and has informed
the general public of practising five days a week. Still content not
to retire, Seles is poised for another stirring return to the game.
<<<

Monica lost two exhibition-matches to Navrátilová in New Zealand in
February 2005, but never since then has she played a match whose
result is public knowledge.

And never since the French Open 2003 has she played a match that
counts towards the WTA rankings.

Official confirmation of the exhibition:
http://www.riveroaksinternational.com/specialevents.htm

It looks like the match is scheduled for Wednesday evening, 4th April
2007.


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HASTINGS DIRECT INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
(Eastbourne, England; grass; WTA Tier II)
http://eastbourne.lta.org.uk/
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I took a photo of a poster of Monica on Monday 19th June 2006.

I have uploaded all my photos for that day, in one big zip-file, to:
http://www.divshare.com/download/142364-4bf

The players I photographed on Monday:

Anna Chakvetadze (17 photos)
Daniela Hantuchová (14)
Shahar Pe'er (7)
Martina Suchá (6)
Elena Likhovtseva (4)
Katarina Srebotnik (3)
Vera Dushevina (3)
Aiko Nakamura (2)
Akiko Morigami (2)
Nathalie Dechy (2)
Monica Seles (1)
Tsvetana Pironkova (1)
Virginia Wade (1)
Chris Evert (1)
Ai Sugiyama (1)
Jarmila Gajdošová (1)
Anastassia Rodionova (1)
Shenay Perry (1)
Yuan,Meng (1)

Permission to copy my Eastbourne photos is granted provided that:
(a) no money is exchanged;
(b) they are labelled as "Copyright 2006 Andrew Broad".
Please let me know if you do use them on another website.

--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/tennis/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/tennis/seles/ (+4 external links)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/selesians/