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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Czech player had let slip a lead of 4-1 in the deciding set to go down 7-6 (6), 1-6, 6-4 in the 1993 Wimbledon final against Steffi Graf. At the presentation ceremony, the 24-year-old had dissolved into tears and the Duchess had lent a shoulder to cry on and said, \u201cYou\u2019ll win this one day.\u201d And she did. In her third final at the All England Club in 1998, Novotna claimed the big, shiny Venus Rosewater dish.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think about it all the time. I love it,\u201d Novotna had said in an interview in 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really funny because a lot of people think that losing to Steffi Graf in 1993 was a bad experience. For me, it was the best thing that happened to my life. The next day, because of everything that happened during the ceremony and during the match, I opened the newspapers and I was on the front page of every newspaper, I felt like a winner. And it really gave me so much publicity. Now it\u2019s something that people remember more than me actually winning Wimbledon.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m dependent on tennis,” she had said. \u201cA day without it would be terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The image of a tearful Novotna, being consoled by the Duchess of Kent, that will remain ever-alive in tennis memory. Jana Novotna, who passed away on Sunday, is remembered by most of her mourning colleagues for her open, brave smile. The Czech player had let slip a lead of 4-1 in the deciding set to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1676,1678,1675,1672,1681,1670,1671,1674,1679,1680,1673,1677],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-1993-wimbledon-final-against-steffi-graf","tag-all-england-club-in-1998","tag-czech-player","tag-duchess-of-kent","tag-felt-like-a-winner","tag-jana-novotna","tag-jana-novotna-dies-at-49","tag-mourning-colleagues","tag-novotna-claimed-the-big","tag-shiny-venus-rosewater-dish","tag-tennis-memory","tag-the-24-year-old"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}