In today's newspaper there were two articles about Japanese women's tennis players. One is about Kimiko Date Krumm(クルム伊達公子), and the other is Ai Sugiyama(杉山愛).
Kimiko Date Krummdebuted in 1989 and retired in 1996 once, but she came back to the tennis world in April 2008. Yesterday she became a champion again after 13 years in Hansol Korea Open 2009. She beat Anable Medina Garrigues by 4-6,7-6, 6-3.
Today is her 39th birthday. She became the champion at the age of 38 years 11 months 30 days. This is the second oldest record after Billie Jean King of 39 years 7 months 23 days in 1983.
Congratulations and happy birthday!! Girl's name Kimiko is popular, and there are many variations of kanji characters. Among them she and I use the same character (公子), therefore I want to support her as a fan.
The other news was about Ai Sugiyama's retirement ceremony at Toray Pan Pacific Open 2009. She will put an end to her career with this tournament after 17 years at the age of 34.
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