Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rain until Stefan Edberg cut in on Boris Becker, 4-6, 7-6, 6-4, 6-2. Five years ago at Wimbledon, they opposed each other during the junior championships, and Edberg both beat Becker and won the tournament to nominate himself as the coming star. But the two Australian titles and some $4 million he has earned at 22 have managed to appear paltry next to Becker's back-to-back Wimbledons in 1985 and 1986 and world celebrity...
...comeback and called this a "critical time for tennis and me." He said he could envision American tennis becoming like soccer, "where the rest of the world is crazy about it, and nobody in the U.S. gives a damn." But Lendl, 28, the lead Swede Mats Wilander, 23, the Australian Pat Cash, 23, Becker and Edberg are at least worth one damn, and Steffi will play the winner...
OSCAR AND LUCINDA by Peter Carey (Harper & Row; $18.95). An Australian novelist turns in a shimmering fantasy of gambling and glassmaking, held together by the struts of 19th century history and the mullions of painstaking detail...
...great occasions lately, the rest of the world has broken back. By any objective measurement, Britain's Sandy Lyle, the current Masters champion, is the most accomplished player of the moment. In some order, he is followed by the Australian Greg Norman, the Spaniard Seve Ballesteros and perhaps the Americans Lanny Wadkins and Strange. A winner of $3 million and no major titles, Strange was the signature U.S. golfer...
OSCAR AND LUCINDA by Peter Carey (Harper & Row; $18.95). An Australian novelist turns in a shimmering fantasy of gambling and glassmaking, held together by the struts of 19th century history and the mullions of painstaking detail...