Graf has won at Mahwah,
Playing against Coetzer.
  (-What year is this, 1996?)

Made good use of three days,*
'Countess' you may call her
  - of Mahwaw, NJ (-former 'Queen of Tennis'.)


Sure that past is done with:
Just another title.
  (-What is it, the hundred-sixth or -seventh?)

She's come back this distance;
If not first in all records,
  One thing she's not: Just one more Miz Smith.

['Tennis Headline, July 1998.' (C) July 21, 1998 by Russell Hess.]


*[as quoted in Washington Post, Monday July 20, 1998.]


...For those who need any of this explained:   a footnote.