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Article: Plenty on Graf's plate She beats Sanchez Vicario at Wimbledon
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 7, 1996
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LONDON -- The much-larger plate that goes to the winner of the
Wimbledon women's singles championship was in Arantxa Sanchez
Vicario's hands for a few seconds after her match against Steffi Graf
yesterday.
But that was only because Sanchez Vicario was joshing with the
capacity crowd of 13,120 at Centre Court.
For Sanchez Vicario to keep the winner's plate that she had
grabbed out of Graf's hands in front of all those folks, she would
have had to have beaten Graf on the court, something Sanchez Vicario
couldn't quite accomplish.
Graf won, 6-3, 7-5, claiming her 100th singles championship
(behind only Martina Navratilova's 167 and Chris Evert's 157) and her
20th Grand Slam singles title, ...