Word: evert
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With no John McEnroe from the start and no Jimmy Connors for long, the 100th Wimbledon felt its age. According to Chris Evert Lloyd, 31, "Anyone who chases that yellow ball around a tennis court has to feel young." To exaggerate the point, last week her husband John lost his opening match and retired from singles competition at 31. The championships took on a theme of passage...
Despite a stopped-up nose and an ineffective serve, top-seeded Chris Evert Lloyd held off scrappy 15-year-old Susan Sloane 6-4, 6-4 yesterday afternoon in the first round of the $1.8 million Lipton International Players Championships tennis tournament...
...Hana Mandlikova, 23, hoisted the silver high after overcoming a shared reputation as temperamental talents who tend to choke in major matches. This time, despite a couple of 90 degrees -plus afternoons, they showed no signs of wilting against the best players in the U.S. Mandlikova outpowered Chris Evert Lloyd, 30, in the semis (4-6, 6-3, 6-3), then in the finals wrested the title away from Martina Navratilova, 28 (7-6, 1-6, 7-6), herself born Czech but a U.S. citizen since 1981. In his semifinal match, Lendl ousted Jimmy Connors...
Aside from fifth-seeded Kevin Curren's first-round loss to Frenchman Guy Forget and Mandlikova's three-set semi-final thriller over Chris Evert-Lloyd, he only major upset was eighth-seeded Boris Becker's fall in the round...
While Navratilova was losing 20 of their first 24 matches, she was learning psychological lessons from Evert, who ultimately would have to take physiological ones from her. Noticing that Chris had a support system of family and friends, Martina determined to gather a similar stronghold of allies, though hers tended to be unusual: lesbian novelists and transsexual ophthalmologists. Far beyond a serve and volley, Navratilova and Evert had contrasting styles...