Monica Seles

30 Apr 2013

The knife attack on Monica Seles, which took place in Hamburg 20 years ago today, not only dictated security at sports events over the last two decades, but changed the victim's life forever. A...

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It's all about living life at full stretch

11 Jan 2009

The highlight of Susan Yahng's calendar every year is the JB Group Classic, when the former Bostonian is in charge of the player's lounge. 'One thing I observed is how much emphasis the players...

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Sports Quiz

23 Jan 2005

1: Who among Stefan Edberg, Ken Rosewall, Boris Becker and Mats Wilander has not won six Grand Slam singles titles?

2: Which woman has won the most Grand Slam singles titles?

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Myskina shoulders the burden

3 Jan 2003

Rising Russian star Anastasia Myskina, who last Friday couldn't even serve properly because of a painful right shoulder, neutralised the raw power of American Alexandra Stevenson to ease into the...

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Class act

2 Jan 2003

Hong Kong teenager Catherine Dickson goes for her shots under the watchful eye of Monica Seles during an exclusive South China Morning Post tennis clinic at Victoria Park.

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One more Grand Slam title still within reach, says Seles

31 Dec 2002

Nine-time Grand Slam champion Monica Seles says she will 'probably' play for another two or three years before hanging up her racquet.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

Updated 5:26AM

Seles all set for SAR challenge

Nine-time Grand Slam tennis champion Monica Seles is among eight world stars lined up to play at the 2003 Hong Kong Ladies Tennis Challenge being held next January 1-4 at Victoria Park.

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Superstars Serena and Seles set for SAR showdown

Defending US Open champion Serena Williams and former world number one Monica Seles will slug it out in the inaugural Nortel Networks Challenge, an exhibition match scheduled for September 30 at...

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Metal outfit has fast man standing still

Colin Jackson, the world's fastest man in the 110-metre hurdles, says posing for photographer Peter Lindbergh was easy - it was removing his outfit that caused some problems.

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Moya wins in France

Spain's Carlos Moya beat compatriot Alex Corretja in straight sets to take the French Open crown and complete a double for his country.

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Sponsors leave a void filled by base line

With the days of tobacco sponsorship of key sporting fixtures in Hong Kong rapidly coming to an end, event organisers are taking desperate measures to fill the void.

Take the Hong...

5:10AM

When youth courts success there is usually a price to pay

Venus Williams is way too young to choose between Clinton and Dole in the upcoming US Presidential election.

Beauty that she is, Anna Kournikova is way too young to marry and has...

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