Word: borge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usual time: the last week in August and the first week of September. The usual people were in attendance: Grand Slam Candidate Bjorn Borg with a fortune in endorsement insignia to grace his tennis togs; new women's No. 1 Martina Navratilova with a fortune in gold jewelry to adorn her now-winning form; Chris Evert with a list of crack hairdressers for prematch sprucing up; Vitas Gerulaitis with a list of ear-splitting discos for post-match winding down; Evonne Goolagong stayed home with her baby; Jimmy Connors brought his mother along. Only the place was unusual...
...world's finest tennis players. For the first time since 1972, the two top-seeded men and the two top-seeded women in the game survived to do battle on Centre Court for the singles titles. On successive days, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova and Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors -great young tennis stars in fine form -treated Wimbledon to rousing games of king and queen of the mountain. When it was over, Navratilova and Borg stood alone...
...Borg's smashing 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 win brought him his third straight Wimbledon title, a feat last achieved by Fred Perry in the mid-1930s. It also brought the score in the six-year Borg-Connors rivalry, which has produced some of the most thrilling tennis ever, to six matches for the unflappable Swede against eight for the stormy American...
...once again, as in their last two matches, at Boca Raton, Fla., and Tokyo earlier this year, the younger Borg (now 22, vs. 25 for Connors) was clearly superior. His metronomic groundstrokes raked the corners of the court, upsetting Connors' rhythm and preventing him from battling back with the laser passing shots and pinpoint volleys that are his best strokes. But it was Borg's serve that made this the quickest (107 min.) and most definitive Wimbledon men's final since 1974, when Connors pasted Ken Rosewall in a straight...
...Borg scored five aces and 19 outright winners on his whistling serve; Connors was able to break service but once in twelve games. With Connors rocked back on his heels by the Swede's boomers, Borg, who normally takes root at the baseline and whittles away with topspin ground-strokes, moved to the net to volley Jimmy's returns. Until recently, the sight of Borg at the net was as rare as, say, a display of good manners by Ilie Nastase. But Borg charged to the front court frequently and effectively in his semifinal with The Netherlands...