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Billie Jean King, who will turn 40 before her next Wimbledon, or the next Wimbledon, is approximately eleven years older than Chris Evert Lloyd, who is approximately eleven years older than Andrea Jaeger. Besides representing a tidy chronology of women's tennis, they were the forces marshaled this past fortnight on one flank of the Wimbledon draw, the side opposite Martina Navratilova, 26, whose only point of reference lately is herself. In seven matches averaging just over three-quarters of an hour, Navratilova lost no sets and only 25 games, defeating Jaeger at the end for her fourth Wimbledon...
...Evert Lloyd, who lost to Navratilova in last year's final, fell to unseeded Kathy Jordan in this year's third round, ending a stunning run of consistency unappreciated before and nearly unfathomable now. Counting every major tournament she ever entered-35 Wimbledons, U.S. Opens, French Opens and Australian Opens since 1971-this was the first time Evert Lloyd failed to reach the semifinals. "I never realized," said Navratilova in hushed awe. For a year and a half Martina has been the best women's tennis player; for ten years Evert Lloyd has defined what that means...
Though pale and plainly sick the day she lost, Evert Lloyd made little of that afterward. Since she holds the other three major titles at the moment, a grand slam, admittedly not the calendar one, was lost too. Still her grace in defeat was heroic, in contrast to the style of the defending men's champion and top seed Jimmy Connors, who fled in a fury after his fourth-round loss to a big server from South Africa, twelfth-seeded Kevin Curren...
...upset of Evert Lloyd had given King so much hope (and Wimbledon so much hope for her) that from the moment she was dismantled by Jaeger in the semifinals, 6-1, 6-1, the tournament became subdued. Several days before, King said breezily of Jaeger, "She looks so young, but she seems so old." Not unkindly, the reverse may be said of King, whose battle scars start at the knees. She retired once, for a year, after whining her sixth Wimbledon singles championship in 1975 (she has collected 20 Wimbledon titles in all) and stepped away again momentarily...
...just a little speck." Immediately following her worst defeat in 22 years at Centre Court, King acknowledged, "Yes, I took a last look over my shoulder-just in case." But she will probably return. "I'll be dreaming of winning Wimbledon when I'm 80." Evert Lloyd is sure to be back. "I've always bounced back after a disappointment," Chris says with that familiar glint of purpose. Navratilova is pretty difficult to beat, but she is not unbeatable...