People: Jun. 5, 2000

NO LOVE MATCH

Even before the French Open kicked off this week, NATHALIE TAUZIAT was swinging at her fellow players. In her newly released memoir, Les Dessous du Tennis Feminin (The Underside of Women's Tennis), Tauziat, 32, complains that the game's fans and the Women's Tennis Association are more impressed by good looks than raw talent. She is particularly dismayed at the popularity of pulchritudinous ANNA KOURNIKOVA, 18, one of the top money earners on the tour last year despite the fact that she has never won a singles tournament. Tauziat brands Kournikova a self-absorbed "Lolita" who plays up her nonathletic...

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