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Conchita Martinez stood the test of time

By Bonnie DeSimone
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, August 1, 2006

How many of today's WTA players will hang in there for 18 years? The odds are increasingly against it, even if the calendar is shortened. That sheer durability is part of what made Conchita Martinez's career distinctive. Her timeline spans two or three eras in women's tennis. She played then-33-year-old Chris Evert as a 16-year-old in 1988, then at the age of 33 she faced then-16-year-old Nicole Vaidisova last year. Martinez's year-end ranking was inside the top 40 in all but one of her 18 se ...

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