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New Era Begins For Year-Ending Championships <br />Munich -- Some like it, some don't, but the Sanex Championships are now in Munich, transplanted from their spiritual home at Madison Square Garden for the first time in over 30 years.
As the 16 players met the media on the day before the first ball is struck, most were asked what they thought of the move, and there was general agreement that it will eventually prove to be positive.
"You shouldn't judge it just on the first year," said Lindsay Davenport, who is the one remaining player with the chance of catching Jennifer Capriati for the year-ending No 1 ranking. And Capriati herself welcomed the change, saying she was "very happy to be in Munich".
She will be even happier at the end of the week if she is No 1, and she can put herself virtually out of reach of Davenport if she wins the first match in the German metropolis's Olympic arena. In that opener (2pm Central European Time) the top seed takes on Maggie Maleeva, the 17th-ranked Bulgarian who is the same age as Capriati but has reached Munich by a very different route.
Davenport starts on Wednesday against Amanda Coetzer - the South African playing her ninth successive year-ending championships - fresh from three tournament victories in three consecutive weeks. Both she and Capriati had stern words for Venus Williams, who pulled out of the event at just three days' notice, but the Wimbledon and US Open champion's absence merely leaves the stage clear for others.
Among them is the younger Williams sister Serena, who finishes the opening day's programme with a first round match against the Italian veteran Silvia Farina Elia.
There may be two Americans in action, but there are three Frenchwomen. In her last tournament before retirement, Nathalie Tauziat faces the four-time Grand Slam winner Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, while another retiree Sandrine Testud takes on Amelie Mauresmo, the winner of four titles in the first five months of the year.
