Dad’s my girl!

Lani Chang, trained by her father Michael Chang, in action during the Les Petits As tournament in Tarbes. — AFP

HER father Michael Chang won the tournament in 1986, and her mother Amber Liu played it in 1997: this time Lani Chang is writing a page in her family’s “beautiful history” at the Petits As, the “children’s Grand Slam”.

Sitting alone in the front row courtside, Michael Chang, who won the French Open in 1989, remained mostly impassive during his 13-year-old daughter’s first-round match on the centre court at Tarbes in the south-west of France, apart from occasional muted applause.