Word: goolagongs
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Though the sun did not shine much, a couple of players did. Bjorn Borg, 24, rolled to his fifth straight title, setting a record of 35 consecutive match victories in Wimbledon play. Evonne Goolagong Cawley, 28, the most graceful player to take Centre Court in a generation, outclassed Chris Evert Lloyd to capture her second Wimbledon title...
...sentimentalist's women's final. Evert Lloyd first won Wimbledon at 19, later added one more title. Goolagong was 19 when she won the title in 1971, enchanting English fans with her fluid strokes and gliding style. Both are married women now, and they came to the tournament as underdogs, only to play brilliantly. Evert Lloyd deposed the reigning champion, Martina Navratilova, 23, and Goolagong stopped the rising star, Tracy Austin, 17, to meet for the crown. But it was Goolagong, playing tennis as though it were a sonata, not a sport, who carried...
...tennis togs; new women's No. 1 Martina Navratilova with a fortune in gold jewelry to adorn her now-winning form; Chris Evert with a list of crack hairdressers for prematch sprucing up; Vitas Gerulaitis with a list of ear-splitting discos for post-match winding down; Evonne Goolagong stayed home with her baby; Jimmy Connors brought his mother along. Only the place was unusual: the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, better known to generations of players and fans as Forest Hills, was under way at a new site in Flushing Meadow, Queens, N.Y. After more than half a century...
Following the singles, in the final of the Bridgestone doubles, top-seeded Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova made short work of Goolagong and Betty Stove, the second seeds, taking a 6-3, 6-2 victory...
...victory was the first time Goolagong has beaten Evert since the spring of 1976, when she downed Evert in a three-set final to take the Virginia Slims championship...