as well as their performance?
“No,” said Gabriela. “I think every woman wants to be feminine and to look good. That’s what I try to do—look feminine and look good.”
***
Although I came away from the interview convinced that it was futile, I wrote a profile that emphasized Sabatini’s on-court accomplishments, her discipline and diligence, and the beautiful expressiveness of her game. Weeks later when Vogue informed me that the project had been killed, I wasn’t surprised. Yet while I didn’t appreciate it at the moment, I would discover in the next six months that my search for Gabriela Sabatini hadn’t been a waste. Her complicated relationships with family and coaches, her alternating persona as headstrong diva and heartsick ditzy adolescent, her determination to be fit yet feminine, her eagerness to court the public yet avoid the press, her wistful yearning for the prosaic pleasures of youth and for a freedom her millions couldn’t buy her—all of these added up to a composite portrait of the best and worst of women’s tennis.
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