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Ever since Suzanne Lenglen breezed to victory in a headband and short-sleeved dress in 1919, Wimbledon has been a showcase for style. This year, it's the on-court officials' turn to wow the crowds. For the first time in Wimbledon's 129-year history, the All England Club has broken with tradition and invited a big-name designer to dress up the umpires, line judges and "ball kids." That imported Americanism - the traditional English terms remain ball boys and ball girls - is apt, since the sponsorship deal, worth an estimated $10 million over five years, was awarded...
...lost in the first round because I had bad nose cramps," he jokes. He went on to become a highly regarded poet and novelist?his book White Gestures was a top seller in Italy?and he published a well-received biography of the grande tennis dame Suzanne Lenglen. He was also once named Italy's playwright of the year. The son of a Lombard oil magnate, Clerici is a bon vivant of the first order. Surely the most dapper dresser in the history of sports journalism, he owns homes throughout the world and has been known to spend off-days...
...stick to sports here. My point is that in America, we are arrived at not only the Golden Age of Women's Tennis--and it certainly is that, with more talent than even the Mallory-Helen Wills-Suzanne Lenglen era--but also the Golden Age of Women's Soccer, the G.A. of Women's Hoops, of Women's Hockey (ice, not field), of Women's Track, of Women's Rock Climbing, of Women's Everything, including Bobsled (which will rattle and roll in Salt Lake City next February). I'm not talking about Q ratings here; I'm talking about...
...Wills-Lenglen was a great rivalry, and King-Margaret Court was a great rivalry; but Lenglen sipped brandy during changeovers, and King admits she couldn't powder the ball the way today's women can. What Navratilova taught Evert says that no woman before Martina--the original Martina--hit the ball hard, really hard. And no one since has survived without hitting hard. Also: six of the Top 10 at Flushing Meadows have won Slams, and the injured Mary Pierce would have made seven. There is power; there is depth...
Around the lawns and locker rooms of Wimbledon last week connoisseurs were comparing her to the all-timers - Suzanne Lenglen, Helen Wills Moody, Mo Connolly, King - and speculating, as tennis people do, about how she would fare in dream matches against them. It is part of the respect anyone on the verge of winning this tournament five times gets. But even those who appreciate her no-weakness game tend to overlook the fact that she has come further emotionally than anyone else who has ever played this game...