chom.com
Jul 24, 2008
By: THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL - Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario will have to wait two years to resume her love affair with Montreal tennis fans. A severe case of gastroenteritis has forced the two-time champion from Spain to miss her planned induction into the Rogers Cup Hall of Fame. Organizers now hope to have her back for the honour in two years, when the annual tournament returns to Montreal. "I had a great relationship with the crowd in Montreal," Sanchez-Vicario said Thursday from her home in Barcelona. "I always felt kind of at home there. "I still get letters from people in Montreal. I look forward to being back in two years." Sanchez-Vicario, who won the tournament in 1992 and 1994, said she has been ordered to rest. "I have to take treatment for several days," she said. "We have to find out what it is because it's very...
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