Sports Fact of the Day 2/22/2007

My baby turns 16 today ::sniff::

Washington's Birthday

2/22/1970:
Ilie Nastase of Romania rallies from a two-set deficit to capture the U.S. Indoor Tennis Championship with a five-set triumph over Cliff Richey. Playing brilliantly and not clowning around as he often did in his later years, Nastase serves his way out of a6-7, 15-40 double match point predicament in the fourth set and proceeds to win the last nine games of the match. After helping Romania reach the 1969 Davis Cup finals, he cracks the world's top 10 list this year and will remain a headling in tennis for the next decade.

Birthdays:
Julius Erving b. 1950
Amy Alcott b. 1956
Vijay Singh b. 1963
Pat LaFontaine b. 1965
Michael Chang b. 1972