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The tennis world, that straight-toothed set which thinks a backboard is 40 feet wide, was predictably unsettled by John McEnroe's angry outburst in Friday's Wimbledon semifinal against Jimmy Connors.
McEnroe, it seems, drilled one of his booming southpaw serves past a flatfooted Connors. The T.V. cameras clearly showed that the ball landed well within the prescribed box, but, inexplicably, the serve was termed a fault. Young McEnroe (who but two years ago was Young Upstart McEnroe) struck the hallowed...
When not cradling a violin or wielding a tennis racquet, Stern can usually be found holding a telephone or two or three. (He has eleven of them in his Manhattan duplex.) If forced to spend a couple of hours at an airport, he finds a lounge or booth and places...
That brushing motion puts tremendous spin on the ball, generating air pockets below it that pull the ball down like a lead weight, no matter how hard it is hit. Thus Borg can swing away and know that it will drop within the base line. Equally important, he can hit...
The will to keep going has helped make Borg the best tennis player of his generation. But is he the greatest of all time? No one, of course, will ever know how many Wimbledon titles Laver might have won had not the rules against professional players of that era exiled...