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...other hand, eludes categorization to successfully that he baffles us. We are never quite sure whether to be charmed by him. Brad "Rainbow" Robert is a warm, yet spoiled and defeated, 25-year-old. A supporter high school basketball player, he has seen his dreams of making the pros destroyed by a racist college coach, and he now sweats it out daily, working in a plant with yet another coach-his white foreman. He sees little change of this rut. Clinging tenaciously dreams of glory days gone by, and glory days that should have been, he turns bitter and self...
...lose against Newcombe, Jimmy will still be No. 1 for what he has done for tennis. His fellow pros owe him at least a "Good morning" for all the money he has brought into the game and their pockets...
...professional tennis, there is no longer the easy draw or easy first round. Anyone, on his day, might beat anyone else. That the top-ranking pros can keep their games at championship peak throughout the year continues to astound many of us who paced ourselves in a more leisurely way toward the major tournaments...
...surprisingly, Connors has alienated most of his fellow pros. "He ain't one of the boys," says Arthur Ashe. "Right now he's sorely misguided. We hardly say hello." As a group, the world's top players are almost unanimously for Newcombe. "Never will I root so hard for an Australian to beat an American," admits one U.S. player. Their dislike for Connors is based only in part on his court behavior. They also resent the ways in which he has thumbed his nose at the tennis establishment. Items...
...played on a small winter indoor circuit run by his manager Bill Riordan, refusing to join most of the pros on the big-time World Championship Tennis (W.C.T.) tour...