saint0917
June 12th, 2009, 09:31 AM
6/11/89:
Seventeen-year-old Spaniard Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario stuns top-seeded Steffi Graf of Germany, 7-6 (8-6), 3-6, 7-5, at Stade Roland Garros in Paris to win the French Open tennis championship. Serving for the match at 5-3 in the final set, Graf is broken at love and Sanchez-Vicario runs off the last four games of the match to win it. Graf, who won all four major titles in 1988 (a tennis Grand Slam) appears sluggish throughout, committing 71 unforced errors and losing for only the seventh time in her last 200 matches. Sanchez-Vicario, a dogged retriever and resilient baseline strokemaker, becomes the first woman from Spain ever to win a major tennis title.
B I R T H D A Y S
Ernie Nevers b. 1902
Vince Lombardi b. 1913
Jackie Stewart b. 1939
Joe Montana b. 1956
Scott Mellanby b. 1966
Seventeen-year-old Spaniard Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario stuns top-seeded Steffi Graf of Germany, 7-6 (8-6), 3-6, 7-5, at Stade Roland Garros in Paris to win the French Open tennis championship. Serving for the match at 5-3 in the final set, Graf is broken at love and Sanchez-Vicario runs off the last four games of the match to win it. Graf, who won all four major titles in 1988 (a tennis Grand Slam) appears sluggish throughout, committing 71 unforced errors and losing for only the seventh time in her last 200 matches. Sanchez-Vicario, a dogged retriever and resilient baseline strokemaker, becomes the first woman from Spain ever to win a major tennis title.
B I R T H D A Y S
Ernie Nevers b. 1902
Vince Lombardi b. 1913
Jackie Stewart b. 1939
Joe Montana b. 1956
Scott Mellanby b. 1966