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...blazing Borg and a controlled Navratilova take Wimbledon...
...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...
...more functional side, the Wimbledon finals will be on the tube Saturday afternoon. At this writing, the men's finalists are Borg and Connors, and Martina Navratilova and the redoubtable Chris Evert will duke it out for the women's crown. And for you lovers of the Boston Lobsters, who are still off on their Wimbledon break, well, at last report the team was hotly pursued by a chef with a New burgh recipe. Stay tuned. Seriously, the Wimbledon finals will be on Channel 4, starting Saturday at 12:30 and going on until the cows come home...
...request of Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg, fans at the Grand Prix Masters tennis finals in Madison Square Garden were asked not to smoke. After a moment of stunned silence, the Garden erupted in applause. Last week New Jersey announced a ban on smoking in most public buildings, including gambling casinos being built in Atlantic City...