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Article: A Stunning, Straight-Set Victory Seles Routs No. 1 Hingis to Gain Final Against Sanchez Vicario
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- International Herald Tribune
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- June 5, 1998
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Christopher Clarey
International Herald Tribune
06-05-1998
''Is tennis good therapy right now?'' someone asked Monica Seles's new coach, Gavin Hopper, during this French Open.
''I think more than anything, that's the reason she came,'' he said.
It was no easy decision for Seles to play in Paris after her father's death from cancer on May 14, but her house in Florida was too full of painful reminders, and so she boarded an airplane and flew back to the city where she won her first Grand Slam title at the more carefree age of 16.
On Saturday, she will get the chance to win the title again. Seles earned that opportunity with a stunningly straightforward 6-3, 6-2 victory over the world's No. 1 ...