Anna Kournikova, ti år senere

Festlig fortelling om Anna Kournikova før og nå, les den på Sports Illustrated. Her er ett av mange gullkorn fra Jon Wertheims tastatur, om hvordan det var å intervjue henne for ti år siden:

Finally, after more than a year, I am granted a 10-minute session at a hotel in New Jersey where Kournikova is being paid a prince(cess)ly fee to play in a weekend tennis exhibition. Monitored by yet another handler, Kournikova spends the excruciating session chomping on pink gum, staring at her nails, and performing a nimble feat of dialogue by giving yes/no answers to questions that begin with the word “how.”