My job on the tennis circuit has become very boring. I have spent twenty years covering from the famous Borg V McEnroe match right till Sampras's triumphs in Wimbledon. One day I am in Indian Wells the other day at Eastbourne and still another in Dubai. The players have it tough but at least they have their entourages. While I have to plough a lonely furrow. Airport lounges check in at hotels and early morning visit to the venue have become my life. I am of course friendly with a lot of players Navratilova, Sampras, Courier Costa, Kournikova, Graf, and Agassi I can count as my personal friends. Often I meet them in Hotels and airports and we chat up.
Mr. Thomson my Editor rang me from LA what's the gossip I have heard about Anna Kournikova and Pete Sampras. I was tired of all this. I am a serious tennis writer and all this hype about Anna was getting a bit too much. Granted she was great looking but it did not mean that we had to pry into their personal life. Thomson was after me to get an insight into Kournikova's sex life ever since she got injured and was off the circuit temporarily. Her shoulder operation meant she could not play for another 3 months and she was making television appearances at most venues. Next week she was to be at Forest Hills for a charity show in which she was to appear along with Pete Sampras.
Thomson said she was sending Jane Petroswki from our women's section to cover the event and that I was to co-operate the Jane. Jane was a brunette with Polish ancestry and I was looking forward to catching up with her. I have had a crush on her for god knows how long! We met up at the Hotel and she was all excited as she said that she had confirmed news that Anna and Sampras were having a torrid affair. She said that she had managed to put a small camera in Sampras's room and we could watch any action from her room.
I was excited that I would be able to spend time with the gorgeous Jane and I was sure that there was nothing happening between the two tennis stars. We had a quiet dinner and suddenly I saw Sampras entering his suite and shockingly following him was Anna Kournikova. Jane leapt up in excitement, as she knew she had cracked the cover story for the next issue of the magazine.