FULL VERSION 1991 - Seles vs Navratilova - Virginia Slims Championships

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PertSnergleman's Review:
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What didn't the gorgeous #1 Monica Seles win in the 1991 WTA season? She won every Grand Slam tournament she entered. She won seven other titles, including this Virginia Slims Championships at Madison Square Garden. She won $2.45 million, a record for earnings in a single season of women's tennis.

Seles, who at 18 is completing her third full year on tour, can barely contemplate Navratilova's career of nearly two decades. In fact, last week she wasn't even sure of Navratilova's age. "She's 35?" Seles said. "Really? Wow. It's hard to imagine..."

"You can't relax for one second with her," Navratilova said. "She puts more pressure on you from the baseline than anybody I have played against because she hits it hard on both sides. You never rest."

"She is clearly No. 1 for this year," Martina Navratilova said of the
prodigiously talented 18-year-old from Yugoslavia. "Whether she can repeat next year, that remains to be seen. But in the major tournaments, she was four for four." The first three were the Australian, French and U.S. Opens, all of which turned into triumphs for Seles.

Seles acknowledged that she had learned a lot in 1991. She learned she could win a second Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, to go with last year's breakthrough at the French Open. And she learned she could successfully defend a title, as she did in Paris. The harder lesson came when public sentiment turned against her. "I learned when you are Number One, how much weight your words have," she said. "People misunderstood me. You learn that you can never be smart enough. And you can't just blurt words out..."

...wise words indeed, from an already tremendous champion.