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Article: Tennis: Major goals for Sampras, Graf in French Open
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 23, 1994
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Pete Sampras and Steffi Graf both have a chance to make tennis
history in the French Open, which begins today in Paris. Sampras is
seeking to become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 -- and only
the third ever -- to win four consecutive Grand Slam titles; he's
already won Wimbledon, the US Open and the Australian Open. Graf is
aiming for her fifth straight Grand Slam crown, which would put her
halfway toward her second career sweep of the major titles in the
same calendar year. She did it in 1988. The women's field will be
weakened because Monica Seles is still sidelined from the effects of
a stab wound, Jennifer Capriati is in drug rehabilitation, Gabriela
Sabatini is in a slump and ...
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