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Despite the apparent folly of this quandary, such a scenario is currently being played out in the otherwise quiescent law-abiding game of tennis. The imminent withdrawal of Bjorn Borg and Ivan Lendl--two of the game's reigning troika--from Wimbledon has confounded the complacent tennis establishment, Lendl and Borg's threatened decisions not to play in the game's most prestigious tournament highlight the damage single-minded prima donnas inflict on the sport's reputation. Formerly distinguished by its courtly respect for propriety and unwaivering adherence to time-cherishes customs, tennis now suffers from an image crisis...
...journalist's view of the personalities and issues shaping events in two critical areas of the world. Making the trip, accompanied by 16 TIME editors, correspondents and company officers, were Robert Anderson, Chairman, Rockwell International Corp.; John R. Beckett, Chairman, Transamerica Corp.; James F. Beré, Chairman, Borg-Warner Corp.; Theodore F Brophy, Chairman, General Telephone & Electronics Corp.; Philip Caldwell, Chairman, Ford Motor Co.; Albert V. Casey, Chairman, American Airlines Inc.; Richard P. Cooley, Chairman, Wells Fargo & Co.; Donald W. Davis, Chairman, Stanley Works; Edwin D. Dodd, Chairman, Owens-Illinois Inc.; Myron DuBain, Chairman, Fireman's Fund Insurance...
...since Big Bill Tilden turned the trick 56 years ago has a tennis player taken three straight U.S. Open titles. But this month at Flushing Meadow, John McEnroe, 22, demolished Bjorn Borg, 25, in four sets-4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3-to do just that. Looking tired and drawn after the match, and having received threats against his life, Borg announced that he was going to take a respite from tennis. "I'm going to try and do other things to keep my mind off the game. I hope that when I come back...
Fist punching the air in joy, McEnroe left the court cheered by his hometown fans. Borg headed for the lockerroom with a grim countenance and, once again, without the title he desires more than any other...
...decade later, Chris Evert Lloyd is, for the fifth time, defending U.S. Open champion. At Flushing Meadow, she will have a lot of competition for the spotlight, not just from all those teen-age terrors but from the likes of defending Men's Champion John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg, who, incredibly, has yet to win the American crown after nine tries. She has long since yielded her claims to the title of "the youngest ..." to the girls in pigtails: Tracy Austin won the finals of the U.S. Open at 16; Kathy Rinaldi played at Wimbledon at 14; Andrea Jaeger...