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...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...
...Barbara Potter, a self- described "middle-aged tennis player of 23." Yet the joint proprietors of women's tennis, sharers of the past 15 grand-slam events going back to 1981, are the oldest members of the top ten. Coming to their fifth final at Wimbledon, Navratilova, 28, and Evert Lloyd, 30, had met 65 times over twelve years and stood one victory apart. The most enduring rivals in sports, they represent a conflict more fascinating than any tennis match...
When Navratilova reached the free world from Czechoslovakia -- a new capitalist in a candy store -- Evert was already the established ice maiden of tennis and the national standard of physical femininity. She set the parameters for acceptable female athleticism in the U.S., relentless but reserved, dedicated but demure. She drew the chalk line for everything in tennis and life that was ladylike, such as baselining and marrying. Navratilova stepped over the line. No, she leaped over...
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...