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Lleyton hewitt was just a few months old when, on July 4, 1981, two giants of tennis played a watershed match. The introverted Swede Bj?rn Borg, trying to win Wimbledon for a sixth straight time, met the volatile American John McEnroe in the final. Their playing styles were as different as their temperaments: Borg was a machine, McEnroe an artist. When the challenger prevailed, it was clear to all observers that he was now the world's best. Borg certainly knew it - only 25, he quit the game soon afterward...
...before slipping to No. 16 last year. In the past, a plunge like that might have signaled the beginning of the end. What it means in Hewitt's case isn't clear yet. At 22, he's the same age McEnroe was when the New Yorker felled Borg - surely too young for his game to be in terminal decline? With the year's first grand-slam event starting in Melbourne on Jan. 19, many are wondering whether Hewitt can make it back to the top, starting by becoming the first local in more than 25 years to win the Australian...
...giant serves and huge groundstrokes, but little thought, strategy or passion goes into it. That's largely why no one truly dominates the sport now. There's loads of talent out there ... but does anyone have the fire of Connors, the dedication of Lendl or the physical presence of Borg?" The smallish Hewitt lacks the last quality; he probably has the other two. But does he have the game to be No. 1 again...
DIED. ANITA BORG, 54, computer scientist who galvanized women worldwide to join the male-dominated field; of brain cancer; in Sonoma, Calif. At a 1987 conference, she struck up a chat in the ladies' room about the paltry turnout of women. She then founded the "Systers" e-mail list and co-founded a prestigious biannual convention. Her trademark T shirt read, WELL BEHAVED WOMEN RARELY MAKE HISTORY...
...study measured the relative intensity of participants’ workouts by asking them to rate their level of exertion on the Borg scale which ranges from zero (no exertion) to ten (almost maximal exertion...