Michael Chang poses with his fiancee, Amber Liu, after he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.He won the 1989 French Open at age 17—the youngest man to win a major—as the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing were escalating into bloodshed.
“For me, at the French Open, if I wasn’t playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold,” Chang said during a news conference before his induction. “The crackdown actually happened that Sunday of the French Open.”
“I think it’s a very special year for Beijing. I’m really excited for what’s going to happen for China,” Chang said.Chang was an ambassador who helped China get the bid to hold the Olympics.
(Images by AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
