Word: lendl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prague Tennis Club, and the teenagers are the honors class in the Czechoslovak national tennis program. With 30,000 youthful players and 2,650 coaches, the program has brought the small (pop. 15.4 million) East European nation to the heights of international tennis: besides Navratilova, its alumni include Ivan Lendl, the world's No. l player, and such other top seeds as Miloslav Mecir, Helena Sukova and Hana Mandlikova -- who surprised the tennis world last week by marrying an Australian restaurateur between rounds of the Federation...
...result is an astonishing array of premier players. Lendl is backed up by Mecir (worldwide pro ranking, 20), Milan Srejber (32), Tomas Smid (35) and Pavel Slozil (85); fourth-ranked Mandlikova's teammates include Sukova (7), Andrea Holikova (78) and Regina Marsikova (79). In return for a passport, each of the athletes has agreed to clear participation in tournaments with the board, pay 20% of after-expense prize money to the federation, and kick in an additional $3,000 annually to defray travel expenses for junior players...
...year ago the gangling, inexhaustible teenager became the youngest man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon. Last week Boris Becker, 18, made it clear that the improbable victory was no fluke. He beat the world's No. 1- ranked player, Ivan Lendl, 26, in straight sets with a 150-m.p.h. serve that blurred across the center court's slick grass surface for 15 aces and with volleys that edged deep or skidded down the sidelines. For the West German wunderkind, this year's win was even sweeter than last year's. At a postgame press conference he announced...
...coming off his second $2 million season, and who has dominated men's tennis for the past year and a half, first-seeded Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia and Connecticut stirs minimal conversation at Wimbledon. His aversion to grass is as well known as its aversion to him, but doubts about Lendl run much deeper than the surface. Breaking through against McEnroe at the U.S. Open last summer seems to have brought him only slightly more confirmation than doing it at the French the year before. Maybe McEnroe, 27, is missed by Lendl, 26, most of all. Without a definitive adversary...
...grace notes have slipped through in the past year. Lendl's former countryman Martina Navratilova, after eleven years away, is returning this month to Prague to compete in the Federation Cup, the women's Davis equivalent. Pressed to offer advice and counsel, since he has been in Czechoslovakia far more recently, Lendl considered the matter solemnly before responding "I would tell her to stay away from the dumplings." Navratilova and Evert Lloyd made their usual voracious work of the dumplings last week, though Dominican-born Mary Joe Fernandez, the latest model in a Florida baseliner, made a bright...