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...Chris Evert-Lloyd recalls her days as a teen tennis sensation and the difficult years that followed, and predicts some problems for young Tracy. Says Evert-Lloyd: "She's protected from the pressures now by her family. But pretty soon the girls will be gunning for her. The crowds may be cheering her opponent because she's the favorite to win. This may be the best time of her life as far as her tennis career goes...
Most of all, you're limited by that camera. A day at the Open does not consist of walking to the seat (or number on a bench) listed on your ticket and witnessing every point of every stadium match, unless the match is Connors-Borg or Evert-Navratilova or Nastase-anyone. The real action can be anywhere--the 19,000 seat stadium, the 6,000 seat grandstand or one of the numerous side courts...
Every year, one player dominates the tournament, not necessarily winning the title, but capturing the attention of the media and fans. Orantes in '75 and Vilas in '77. Evert in '71, Shriver, to an extent, last year...
...weren't for teenylobbers like Tracy Austin and Pam Shriver, U.S. tennis this season would be nothing but schmaltzy mixed doubles. First it was Jimmy Connors wedding his onetime Playboy playmate. Then last week, Chris Evert, long a top-ranker in women's play and once that way in Connors' court as well, wed British Davis Cup Player John Lloyd in a home-town candlelight ceremony in Fort Lauderdale. The 24-year-old queen of the base lines sounded blushingly unprofessional. Said the woman who has won Wimbledon three times and the U.S. Open four times: "This is only going...
Vaillancourt left for Los Angeles yesterday morning for the taping of "Bob Hope Presents the American Youth Awards." Fellow award winners include Chris Evert, Ron Howard of "Happy Days," Jim Rice of the Red Sox, Notre Dame basketball star Kelly Tripucka, and 13 others, all under...