—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1991
Seles shunned
By HAL BOCK
AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK She is 17 years old,
equipped with a bubbly personali
ty, a winning smile and grounds
trokes that other tennis players would
kill for.
Ordinarily that would be a pop
ular combination. For Monica Seles,
however, the package has not pro
duced many fans among her col
leagues in the U.S. Open.
“I don't think she is very popular
in the locker room, but she never was,”
said Gigi Fernandez, who lost to Seles
6-1, 6-2 in the quarterfinals yes
terday. “This is not a popularity
contest.”
Fernandez was asked if there might
have been some anti-Seles fallout after
Monica snubbed Wimbledon, the shrine
of tennis, following victories in the
Australian and French Opens.
“I don’t think I want to answer that,”
she said.
Pressed on the issue, Fernandez
seemed to waffle a bit.
“Most of the top players don’t hang
out,” she said. “They are not pop
ular with anybody. They go, they play
and they leave. So it is hard to be
popular when you do that. And there
is nothing wrong with it.”
Fernandez said tennis has changed
dramatically in the last 15 years and
so have the relationships among
players.
“I think that it is so competitive
and the money is so big, it is very
difficult to have a friend here, even
if you are No. 20,” she said. “Everybody
has their own coach and entourage
and everybody keeps to them
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selves. It is not friendly, that is for
sure. Not like it was before.”
Fernandez said one exception to
that rule is quarter finalist Jennifer
Capriati.
“When you see her in the locker
room, she is friendly,” Fernandez said.
“She is the one friendly person in
the locker room.”
Seles said she didn’t notice any cold
shoulders in the locker room. “I would
say of the top 16 players, I am good
friends with 15,” she said.
Then she seemed to back off that
a bit. “Really,” she said, “I couldn’t
say that I have anybody that I would
call friends.
“We don’t talk. Just say ‘Hi.’ I just
walk by and (they) walk by me. That
is the whole contact we have.
“When we are around each oth
er, we don’t talk about personal
problems. We talk about very dif
ferent things, not about tennis at all.”
Seles said she wasn’t bothered by
Fernandez’s remarks.
“Some players on the tour are a
little bit more outspoken,” she said.
“I think when I came on the tour,
a lot of players were against me. I
think every young player kind of has
it because they are a little more jealous.
They say, ‘Hey, is she going to last
a year?’ Then when you get better,
when they see you are there to stay,
they kind of get better.
“But I still have a lot of players
who I beat when I was 14 who don’t
talk to me because of that. I said ‘Hi’
to them once or twice and they didn’t
answer and I said, ‘Forget it.’
“I’m not going to talk to the lower
ranked players, not going to carry
on any conversation. ”
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AP Sports Writer
CHICAGO Bo’s doctor took
the cautious approach. Bo’s
manager did not.
“There are athletes and peo
ple in life who stand above the
rest,” White Sox manager Jeff
Torborg said. “Bo Jackson has a
presence about him. What he has
accomplished is incredible.”
Jackson, recovering from a
career-threatening hip injury,
returned to the major leagues
Monday night and went 0-for-3 with
a sacrifice fly in the White Sox’s
5-1 victory over the Royals, the
team that released him during
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Dr. James Andrews, mean
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“Bo will continue to improve
for the next two years,” said
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rehabilitation. “One goal was to
get the hip as good as possible.
The second was to get him to
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Jackson’s progress since being
injured last January in an NFL
playoff game while running for
the Raiders “is an accumulation
of hard work” Andrews said.
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What about football?
“There’s been no decision as to
the next level,” Andrews said.
“Football is more demanding. Bo
doesn’t want to talk football because
it’s still the baseball season.”
When Jackson suffered vas
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injury, there were those who
believed he would never play again.
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and 78 RBIs last year, but the
Royals released him rather than
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