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...group that featured Andy Roddick, Juan Carlos Ferrero and one or two others. Nowadays, as gifted as they are, the best of the rest can seem limited, even impotent, on the other side of the net from Federer. As Federer played world No. 10 Gaston Gaudio at Melbourne's Kooyong Classic last week, a first impression was that they were equally matched. Indeed, appearing languid, Federer dropped the first set. He then pressed a button in his mind. Moving like a cat and blending a tease of delicate volleys and pinpoint groundstrokes through an otherwise workmanlike showing, he breezed through...
...shelters. Sydney's Hordern Pavillion, normally a venue for pop concerts and agricultural shows, was transformed into a tennis stadium for the first two matches. Seats ranging from $36 to $3,600 (for courtside boxes) were laid out behind a row of dainty lemon dahlias. Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium was transformed even further for the final match. Kooyong is Australia's Wimbledon, the most hallowed tennis ground under the Southern Cross. But Kooyong's center court is grass, and Borg refused .to play on that fast surface. So Promoter Paul Dainty shelled out another...
Such concessions did not go unnoticed. Cartoonist George Haddon for the Melbourne Herald drew a Kooyong groundsman scattering dollar bills over center court and commenting: "Tell Borg we're covering the court with his favorite surface." The players, however, insisted that money wasn't the issue. Said McEnroe: "It would be good to get a psychological edge by winning here." Said Borg: "John McEnroe is my threat to Wimbledon. The threat will be less if I beat him in Australia...
...though it took a while. Before 10,000 fans at Kooyong Stadium, McEnroe was leading Borg 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 in the five-set match when rain interrupted play. After the showers stopped, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser led a group of volunteers armed with towels to mop up the moisture. Play resumed, and McEnroe won the fourth set 6-4 to give him the match...
...going to be overawed," insisted Raj Kumar Khanna, India's nonplaying captain, as the match got under way in Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium. "The whole world lives on hope...