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Article: Chang Has Inner Game of Champion Fortitude, More Than Ability, Was Key to Lendl Defeat
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- The Washington Post
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- June 7, 1989
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Michael Chang is absurdly young to be here at Roland Garros,
barely 17 and for the most part no different in appearance or conduct
from the youths hanging about at most American malls. When he upset
top-ranked Ivan Lendl Monday to become to the youngest man ever to
reach the quarterfinals of the French Open, he cried. Then he said,
"I just want to go to sleep."
Chang still has an allowance, only $100 a month, even though he
is about to make his first $1 million. His mother still travels with
him. He is impossibly slight at 5 feet 7 and 135 pounds, with an
expression that seems permanently fixed in wonderment.
But there is a fundamental difference between Chang and his more
idle peers, ...