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...past decade, Bjorn Borg has dominated the scene on the international tennis courts. Now the 25-year-old Swedish champion is facing perhaps his most formidable opponent yet from a court of a different nature, as the jury of the All England Club of Wimbledon, in a special ad hoc session, debates his fate...
This week the directors will announce whether Borg must qualify for this year's Wimbledon, or whether the five-time champion will be granted an exemption. According to guidelines regulating men's professional tennis, Borg's refusal to play in the nine required Grand Prix tournaments requires that he qualify for each new contest. By threatening not to enter Wimbledon on this condition. Borg has put the Wimbledon elite at odds with ruling barons of the other major championships, and as the drama drags on, the conflicts and virtual anarchy in men's tennis are being "Bjorn...
...quandary--which Borg himself has forced--is actually a stab-in-the-back irony, considering it was on the Wimbledon grass courts that he won his unprecedented five consecutive titles, establishing himself at least for some as the greatest player of all time. Only eight years ago the teen angel drew the adoring squeals of British schoolgirls, and later the throngs of the tennis world who crowded his Wimbledon appearances. In the following seasons and pilgrimages to the English shrine of tennis, his revolutionary playing style and no-nonsense court side conduct earned him respect and defined professionalism...
...Borg, whose five consecutive Wimbledon titles earned him the tennis world's adoration, is upset that the All-England Lawn Tennis tournament committee will be unable to seed him this year. In addition, he might have to play qualifying round matches because his seven-month layoff evaporated all traces of his world ranking...
...Connors dynamoed-out, Roscoe Tanner permed-out, and Vitas Gerulaitis sped-out, Wimbledon hardly promises the stellar quality of tennis it has provided in the past two years. After all, Mac Attack was pressed to reveal his shot-making legerdemain because of the fierce competition provided by arch-rival Borg...