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This will be the first time [Tracy Austin] has visited Central New York but it's not the first time she's partnered with [John McEnroe]. "John and I have been providing commentary together for the BBC's Wimbledon coverage for a while now," she said. "We also played in our first Wimbledon the same year in 1977 and we both won our first U.S. Open in 1979, so our careers have kind of mirrored each other since the beginning."
"I was 16 and so young then," said Austin about her first U.S. Open win, "and when that moment came there was so much going through my mind, realizing that the tournament was over and I was the winner and that all the hard work I put in was all worth it. When you're competing, the focus is all between the ears, not on the 10,000 people watching or the prize money and that is the key: staying in the moment as tennis is truly an individual sport. In golf, you're playing against the course as well as the competition, and in team sports like basketball, you tend to sit out more while your teammates compete. But in tennis, it's me against you.""As far as I know, there's never been anything like this in the Central New York area," said Brian Galle, Turning Stone tennis pro and the man who put the wheels in motion to roll this event into town. "This could be a once-in-a-lifetime event because I don't know how many more times the likes of [Anna Kournikova] or John McEnroe will be in Central New York, but they're going to be here at least once."See the full content of this document
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If you see Anna Kournikova waiting in line to cash her chips at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino on Saturday, May 2, it might be wise to control your carnal excitement. Should you try to inch up to the Russian stunner there might be a world-class trash-talker nearby who will surely unleash a verbal onslaught: John McEnroe.
That day, those two tennis icons, alo...See the full content of this document
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