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...British Isles have been strewn with black crepe. England's footballers were jobbed in the World Cup at the hand of Maradona; the cricket team was embarrassed by India; Irish Featherweight Barry McGuigan was flattened by a substitute from Texas. At Wimbledon, Best Brits Annabel Croft and John Lloyd were sacked straightaway, and here Lloyd was quitting in a manner that seemed to cinch the national sense of failure...
...whose achievements is it measured?" he asked. "I don't consider 21-in-the-world, or whatever, to be a failure." When Lloyd was ranked 24th, he married the top-rated woman player, Evert. Before long, like Claude Rains or Mr. Thatcher, he began to disappear (to 331st). After Evert spoke publicly of losing respect for her vanishing husband, Lloyd fought his way back into the 30s and even to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open. But his passion was not for winning. "If I wanted it more, maybe I would have gone higher. Maybe I didn't have...
Against South African Christo Steyn in the anticlimax of Lloyd's 14 Wimbledons, he could summon no joy even while taking the first two sets. "Christo was awful the first two. The final three, I was horrendous. He didn't have that much to beat, really. If I'd actually wanted it and enjoyed it--if it came from within--I would have won. But there was no charge in me. I've been doing this since I was eight, thinking of the next tennis match." One of the gentler fish wrappers inquired about his overpowering emotion. Lloyd said...
Connors and Evert Lloyd, fiances of the early '70s, proved their fealty to winning and Wimbledon at the same time, back when his mother helped cool the romance with that chilling line, "Nobody wins Wimbledon on their honeymoon." Of his 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-7 loss to Seguso, 23, Connors said, "I played all right. He was kind of unconscious, serving bomb after bomb. If he'd faltered an inch, I'd have been all over him." Mentioning archly how Seguso must "play up to his responsibility" now, Connors questioned whether the pretender could do it again...
...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 6-4, 6-1 impression on the prototype. "It's been a while," smiled Chris, "since I played a 14-year-old." Pam Shriver...