Word: martina
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...next Wimbledon, is approximately eleven years older than Chris Evert Lloyd, who is approximately eleven years older than Andrea Jaeger. Besides representing a tidy chronology of women's tennis, they were the forces marshaled this past fortnight on one flank of the Wimbledon draw, the side opposite Martina Navratilova, 26, whose only point of reference lately is herself. In seven matches averaging just over three-quarters of an hour, Navratilova lost no sets and only 25 games, defeating Jaeger at the end for her fourth Wimbledon women's singles title and second in a row. The opening...
Richards' life after the operation, arguably the talk's most interesting segment, gets the lightest treatment. A relatively successful female tennis pro after facing opposition from authorities, she now coaches first-ranked Martina Navratilova and has resumed practicing opthamology. She says her father has accepted the switch, and her son, after about of psychotherapy, has adjusted to "his daddy becoming a lady...
...victor is supposed to leap the net magnanimously, not be dragged over it ignominiously. But after an exhibition volley with Martina Navratilova, 26, Duncan, the New Jersey Nets' team mascot, gave her an oaf-handed shake that she would probably like to forget. Navratilova could afford a forgiving smile though: last week she erased any doubts (held by Chris Evert Lloyd) about who is the top-ranked player in women's tennis. Winning the Toyota championship in New Jersey, Navratilova defeated Lloyd 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, for the $75,000 purse, season earnings...
...disappeared) have reason to feel deprived. But so far, the only strategy they have devised to combat their identity crisis has been to dream up possible new names for the Houses, and that is a tactic that will never work Without a doubt, the only way Derek Bok and Martina Horner will consent to renaming North and South Houses is if their institutional palms get greased in a big way--something on the order of $5 million would probably...
There are aspects of the new woman in a rising generation of athletes and actresses: the powerful neck and shoulders of Dancer Sandahl Bergman, the huge forearm of Tennis Champ Martina Navratilova, the mesa-flat stomach of Actress Mariel Hemingway, the sinewy "thunder thighs" of Marathoner Gayle Olinekova, the eloquently articulated back muscles of Track Star Patrice Don nelly. But these are not changeable parts on the latest model of Barbie doll. The new body is to be seen and appreciated in the sum and the movement of its parts, the most important of which may be the brain that...