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Women's Tennis
Lee-Waters delivers top-seed ?upset? at Challenger
BILL WOLVERTON , Rockford Register Star
ROCKFORD -- If numbers were all that counted, Lindsay Lee-Waters' first-round win over Rockford Challenger top-seed Catalina Castano would be a major upset.
But the fact that the 457th-ranked Lee-Waters beat the 142nd-ranked Castano 6-4, 6-4 Wednesday is more a matter of timing.
Lee-Waters, 24, is back in the tennis grind after taking almost a year off to have a baby.
"This was the best I've played since I've been back," Lee-Waters said. "I was just solid throughout the whole match."
Lee-Waters will play Magdalena Zdenovcova in the second round today.
A year ago, Lee-Waters was more concerned with diapering than volleying.
Last January, she gave birth to blond-haired, blue-eyed girl she named Sevyn.
"The name's not from Seinfeld; it's biblical and means to be complete," she said. "We wanted something different."
The other part of "we" is her husband, Heath, who takes care of the baby back home in the Atlanta area while Lindsay gets back in tennis shape. He runs a tennis academy and has flexible hours, but she tries to get home for a few days after every tournament. She sees and talks to Sevyn and Heath on the road by using a Webcam.
"It was a shocker when I found out I was pregnant," Lee-Waters said. "But it's been worth it."
Back when she was known as Lindsay Lee, her world ranking was as high as 36 in 1985, when she upset Pam Shriver in the first round of Wimbledon.
Her career was on the upswing again in January of 2000, when she won the Wavex USTA Women's $10,000 Tournament in Boca Raton, Fla.
Two months into her new marriage, though, she found out she was pregnant. She stopped playing 51/2 months into the pregnancy and didn't start again until almost five months after giving birth.
"My game's getting back there," Lee-Waters said. "I'm trying to get a lot of matches in so I can get match tough again."
She did that last week, too, finishing second at the TAM Classic Brazilian Airlines in Miami.
"Sometimes I miss not being home with my husband and baby," Lee-Waters said. "She's walking and talking, at least I think it's talking. She just goes into a corner and starts babbling to herself.
"I still have to give this a shot, though."
Claudine 
