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Take two players with diametrically-opposed styles, add a liberal dose of related circumstances that enhance the quality of unpredictability, sprinkle lightly with the tradition of a unique and perplexing rivalry, and you have the recipe for yesterday's Virginia Slims final between Chris Evert and Evonne Goolagong...
...third-seeded Goolagong, displaying a complete assortment of her erratic but effective weapons, mixed those ingredients expertly yesterday afternoon, upending number-two seed, Evert, in a 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 thriller at B.U.'s Walter Brown Arena...
From the very beginning, you knew this was an Evert-Goolagong match, because nothing that happened could ever have been predicted. The 26-year-old Australian, who earned $20,000 for the win, began with her engines in full throttle, burying Evert in a 4-1 deficit before the crowd had time to settle in its seats...
...problem of audience reaction always exists for the favored player, as even Evert found out. The sweetheart of tennis lost many of the cheers of the crowd after she had established herself at the top, and her just-ended vacation was a retreat from the pressures of spending almost four years as number...
...Evert is now back, and she and Navratilova will probably meet in Sunday's finals in Boston. It's anyone's guess who the crowd will cheer...