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Article: Lawn Tennis - Wimbledon `99: Mind over matter key to greatness David Miller says Martina Hingis should heed the examples of past champions
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- June 20, 1999
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AGE is determined as much by the mind as by the number of our
years. William Pitt the Younger entered Cambridge at 14 and was
Prime Minister at 24. When Martina Hingis lost her self-control
against Steffi Graf in Paris, she was 18 going on eight. She's not
the first women's tennis champion - already she had four Grand Slam
titles -to be mastered by emotions, so fascinating an element of the
game. Yet to be a great champion she should consider some of the
legendary figures of the past.
Maureen Connolly remains the blueprint for teenage precocity,
with
her three consecutive Wimbledon titles, 1952-54, having become the
then youngest US champion, at 16 years 11 months, in 1951. What was
so ...