Word: laver
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...word that Felske says is conditioning. Having worked with former Australian greats Harry Hopman, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson and Fred Stolle, who he says have influenced him greatly, Felske places greater emphasis on conditioning than he does technique. He has introduced exercising drills to the team, stressed endurance, speed and flexibility and in an effort to foster togetherness, works with three or four players on the court at a time rather than have each individual hit by herself for an hour on the ball machine...
...days went by, Wimbledon's green grass courts became an elephant's graveyard for international stars such as Rod Laver, 38, who was eliminated by Dick Stockton in three sets in the first round; Ilie Nastase, 30, victim of his own bad behavior and Borg's precisely controlled passing shots; and Billie Jean King, 33, slowed by knee surgery, who fell to Chris Evert, 22, in the quarterfinals. The record-breaking and-by Wimbledon's well-bred standards-surprisingly rowdy crowds adopted as their darling a 14-year-old, pigtailed Californian named Tracy Austin. The youngest...
MARK McCORMACK, 46, has a special gift: he turns muscle into gold off the playing field, for which he takes a hefty 15% to 40% of his client's earnings. His Cleveland-based International Management Group represents 250 golfers (Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player), tennis stars (Rod Laver, Bjorn Borg) and other athletes, has some 300 employees and last year grossed $35 million. Arnold Palmer, one of McCormack's first clients and closest friends, now earns about $350,000 a year, only some 5% of it from golfing. McCormack can even make financial champions out of novices -like Laura...
...list goes on. Stan Mikita looks pathetic on the ice now, trying vainly to keep up with his flashy younger counterparts. Arnold Palmer needs divine intervention to one-putt a green, much less win a tournament. Rod Laver won two Grand Slams in tennis but hasn't reached the finals of a major tournament since Jimmy Connors' first communion...
Died. James Laver, 76, British sartorial scholar whose encyclopedic knowledge of historic costume and contemporary fashion earned his books and articles a wide following; in a fire in his London apartment. Laver's witty analyses of the relationship of style to social trends sometimes led to some imaginative conclusions. "The disappearance of corsets," he once wrote, "is always accompanied by two related phenomena-promiscuity and an inflated currency. No corsets, bad money and general moral laxity...