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Article: HINGIS OVERCOMES TEMPER TO OUST SANCHEZ VICARIO.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 3, 1996
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One precocious teen pouted and shouted and flung her racket at the umpire's chair. The other hardly issued a peep.
In tennis, though, love means nothing and manners often count for less, and yesterday at the U.S. Open the 15-year-old who acted most churlish, Martina Hingis, came away with the tournament's biggest upset to reach the quarterfinals.
Hingis, seeded No. 16, toppled 1994 champion and No. 3 seed Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 in a baseline slugfest punctuated by bad calls and long arguments.
Moments later, 15-year-old ((age)) Anna Kournikova threatened to continue the teen insurrection when she broke defending champion Steffi ...