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Article: Revenge for Zvereva as Graf freezes in spotlight.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- June 27, 1998
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Natasha Zvereva waited ten long years to exact sweet revenge yesterday for the bitter humiliation Steff Graf inflicted on her when she played in her first Grand Slam final at the age of 17.
A decade on from the day she suffered the dreaded 6-0, 6-0 "double bagel" at Graf's hands in the French Open final of 1988, the 27-year-old from Minsk strung together the smartest and most consistent match of her Wimbledon career to send the No4 seed and former world No1 plummeting to a 6-4, 7-5 defeat in the third round on Centre Court.
The rain also fell for the fourth ...