Jana Novotna too strong for trolls and small minds

It is a small mercy that Jana Novotna’s pomp predated clickbait. And that the industry around badness — which now rivals the business of controvassy — hadn’t been born.

Jana Novotna too strong for trolls and small minds
Sat, 25 Nov, 2017 - 00:00
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Larry Ryan

What murk we’d have faced on Saturday evening, July 3rd, 1993.

Is THIS the crudest taunt Jana Novotna has faced since Wimbledon collapse?

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