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PEOPLE, Page 59Net AdvantageBy Emily Mitchell/Reported by Jeannie Park
All I wanted to do was sleep," said MICHAEL CHANG of the final,
grueling moments of his 4 1/2-hour match with top seed IVAN LENDL.
And no wonder. Fatigued and suffering painful leg cramps last week
in the French Open, Chang, 17, looked as if he could hardly finish
the match. But the teenager, the youngest man ever to advance so
far in the tournament, hung on tenaciously and upset the three-time
winner with a stagger-and-attack strategy highlighted by an
underhand Ping-Pong serve and softly lobbed "moonballs." The last,
dramatic set ended when Lendl double faulted. And so to sleep...