![Happy days for Croatia's Mirjana Lucic-Baroni.](/web/20170124121322im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/x/4/s/x/image.related.landscape.460x307.gtxyql.png/1485245705792.jpg)
Back from the darkness, into the Open spotlight
Meeting the 16-year-old Mirjana Lucic in a Sydney hotel lounge during her first, spectacular, career ascent, the Croatian prodigy anointed by Steffi Graf as her most likely successor had a physique and demeanour well beyond her years. She was also grouped with Martina Hingis and the Williams sisters as the future of the women's game.