本世纪最后一年的世界网坛似乎进入了动荡的年代,一批批老将先后表露退意,一批批新人不断涌现;ATP的头号种子走马灯似地轮流坐庄,WTA的焦点不是网球而是性感;有些女子少年球手瞬间成为亿万富翁,但还有一些人在呼吁男女同酬……世纪末的世界网坛有精彩,也有无奈。 谁是老大 进入1999年以后,男子网坛的最大议题是:谁当ATP老大? ATP是世界男子职业网球协会的缩写,该组织根据球手过去12个月的表现进行电脑积分排名。在过去6年中,获得头号种子称号的都是美国的桑普拉斯,尽管这期间只有美国的阿加西短暂地打断了桑普拉斯对头号种子地位的统治。而今年却不一样了,智利球星里奥斯、俄罗斯的卡费尔尼科夫和美国的阿加西都先后登上头号种子地位,年内有可能占 World tennis in the final year of this century seems to have entered a turbulent era, a group of veterans have revered one after another, batch batch of new people continue to emerge; ATP’s top seed stalls take turns riding Zuozhuang, WTA focus is not tennis but sexy; Some young ladies players instantly become billionaires, but others are calling for equal pay for men and women ... The world of tennis at the end of the century is wonderful and frustrating. Who is the boss After entering 1999, the biggest issue of men’s tennis is: Who is the ATP boss? ATP is the abbreviation of the World Association of Men’s Professional Tennis, the organization based on the performance of players over the past 12 months, the computer rankings. For the past six years, the No. 1 seed has been awarded to Sampras in the United States, although only Agassiz in the United States during this period briefly interrupted Sampras’s dominance of the top seed. This year is not the same, the Chilean star Rios, Russia’s Kafarnikov and the United States Agassi have topped the top seed status, the year may account for