Steffi Graf approached her old rival Kimiko Date Krumm during Indian Wells to tell her how amazed she is at her comeback.
"She said, 'You're amazing. I never think about the comeback and you're still fit,'"said the 39-year-old Date, who bested Anna Chakvetadze 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 in the first round of Miami to earn herself a match with Nadia Petrova.
Date, who is married to German race-car driver Michael Krumm, has only seen her husband five days this year. "We talking on Skype and we talking every day on the phone," she said. "He love tennis. Sometimes we play together tennis, and then he push me very hard. Just enjoy the challenge,' he said to me."—M.C.