Word: borge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have never been especially enthused by Borg's remarkably unimpassioned demeanor. Although big-time tennis has a pleasant rhythm, it often boils down to two people hitting a little ball back and forth over a net--and, recognizing the intricacies and talent involved, it can bore...
Wimbledon--strawberries and cream, crested blazers, green grass courts, and all that. And for the last four years, Bjorn Borg...
...Borg has dominated the tournament with his rip-roaring topspin since Gerald Ford was president and James Callaghan was prime minister. His face has reflected a certain serenity as he has wrecked his opponents methodically, in turn. But the image of Borg collapsing to his knees following the last point of every final match stays sharply etched in the mind of every tennis devotee as the Swede's strongest show of emotion...
Inevitably, the charity tennis event at London's Battersea Park was heralded as a "love doubles" match, even though mixed doubles are notoriously taxing on marriages and other loving relationships. John Lloyd and his more famous wife Chris Evert Lloyd were paired against Bjorn Borg and Fiancee Mariana Simionescu, who plan to be married in July. Between hugs, pats, kisses and giggles, the foursome played reasonably serious tennis, with Chris and John winning, 6-4, 6-3. For that they were awarded $93,000, while the losers won $60,500. Charity got $35,000, leading some to wonder...
...Winter Olympics turned Eric Heiden into a golden apotheosis to Americans, the Swedes had long since made a national hero of Ingemar Stenmark, an eerily perfect slalom racer who is as popular at home as Bjorn Borg, the tennis champion. At 23, Stenmark has won the World Cup three times. Before Lake Placid, he had taken 14 World Cup giant slalom races in a row while competing against the best racers in the world-a record as awesome in its own way as Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941. In some ways, Stenmark is the Alpine...