Word: borge
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DiMambro won the singles crown at the New Englands in the fall, but that didn't faze Harvard's top freshman. Playing with Borg-like intensity, Pe recovered from a 5-3 deficit in the second set to sweep the next four games and extend the match. In a final frame filled with long baseline rallies, the usually aggressive Pe showed solid strokes and a lot of patience in waiting for DiMambro's unforced errors...
...courtside boxes) were laid out behind a row of dainty lemon dahlias. Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium was transformed even further for the final match. Kooyong is Australia's Wimbledon, the most hallowed tennis ground under the Southern Cross. But Kooyong's center court is grass, and Borg refused .to play on that fast surface. So Promoter Paul Dainty shelled out another $48,000 to build a wooden platform and synthetic surface over the grass, allowing a five-inch airspace for the grass to "breathe...
Such concessions did not go unnoticed. Cartoonist George Haddon for the Melbourne Herald drew a Kooyong groundsman scattering dollar bills over center court and commenting: "Tell Borg we're covering the court with his favorite surface." The players, however, insisted that money wasn't the issue. Said McEnroe: "It would be good to get a psychological edge by winning here." Said Borg: "John McEnroe is my threat to Wimbledon. The threat will be less if I beat him in Australia...
...Borg took the first match, 6-0, 6-4, a tidy massacre that required merely 68 minutes to complete. McEnroe served poorly and seemed incapable of trading ground strokes with Borg, who played faultlessly. After the match, McEnroe said at courtside, "I hope everyone comes out again tomorrow because I can play better than that." He was right. The next night he contrived to win two additional games, falling to Borg 6-2, 6-4. "I played three times better than I did Thursday night and still won only two more games," said McEnroe. "He's outplayed me twice...
...though it took a while. Before 10,000 fans at Kooyong Stadium, McEnroe was leading Borg 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 in the five-set match when rain interrupted play. After the showers stopped, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser led a group of volunteers armed with towels to mop up the moisture. Play resumed, and McEnroe won the fourth set 6-4 to give him the match...