Jana Novotna RIP

[DasNutNock]

49 is no age. RIP to a wonderful tennis player, and by all accounts, a lovely person.

[Chicken Run Supreme]

Sad to hear this news today. When she lost the 1993 Wimbledon Singles Final to Steffi Graf she created one of those iconic sporting moments as the Duchess of Kent gave her a shoulder to cry on that will live on for years to come.
RIP

[York Ham(mer)]

Oh, that is sad, so young really. I remember her playing at Wimbledon, the 1993 final of course, the 1997 final and when she won it in 1998. RIP.

[hammerdivone]

Sad to hear this news today. When she lost the 1993 Wimbledon Singles Final to Steffi Graf she created one of those iconic sporting moments as the Duchess of Kent gave her a shoulder to cry on that will live on for years to come.
RIP

Indeed it is one of iconic moments, and very sad.

RIP

[psychoscoredthelot]

ive only just seen this - shocking no age at all

[DasNutNock]

Absolutely horrible news. 49? No age at all.

[Hemel Iron]

Absolutely horrible news. 49? No age at all.

Didn't you start the thread?

[sendô]

I'm getting deja vu here. I thought she was already dead.

[Cuenca 'ammer]

I didn't look at the thread starter date and spent ages on the BBC sport home page AND the tennis page..nothing !!!

had to google and realise she died in November !!!!!!!

That'll teach me

[DasNutNock]

Didn't you start the thread?

I had absolutely no recollection of doing so, nor do I recall her passing. In my defence, my second daughter was born a few months before that date and we decided to get a new kitchen fitted that month.

Also, I appear to have Alzheimers.

[White Goodman]

I had absolutely no recollection of doing so, nor do I recall her passing. In my defence, my second daughter was born a few months before that date and we decided to get a new kitchen fitted that month.

Also, I appear to have Alzheimers.

I'm glad it is not just me that is like this.

[Tenbury]

You should worry, I announced Doddy 's death 4 weeks early.