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Article: Tan edges Stromberg as Fremd wins RM Invite.(Sports)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
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- October 5, 2003
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Byline: Kimberly Pohl Daily Herald Correspondent
St. Viator's Jenny Tan and Fremd's Christy Stromberg had never faced each other, and a good deal of hype started to build around the inevitable match. One look at the draw and you knew that the two would be meeting in the finals.
Sure enough, both Tan and Stromberg breezed through their first three matches and took center stage at the Rolling Meadows Invite. The elder Tan came out on top, beating the sophomore 6-4, 6-4 in a physical match that displayed top-caliber high school tennis.
"Boy, did they both hit a ton," said an ecstatic St. Viator coach Julie Fischer. "Both of them are very, very hard ...