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...Flushing Meadow; tennis went from the country club to the public park. An illustration of the flux: Connors has won the U.S. title on three different surfaces - grass, clay and cement. Borg and the Open championship would have distinguished each other, but the oversight seems small. He belongs with Tilden, Budge and Laver...
Celebrity endorsements were just as popular then. Big Bill Tilden's name appeared on a junior tennis racket ($3.19), and Pitcher Dazzy Vance's signature was stamped on the horsehide cover of baseballs (59?). More enduring is the Mickey Mouse watch ($2.29), though now Mickey tells time with electronic digits ($16.99) instead of white-gloved hands and must compete with Star Wars models. Another big name in the 1933 catalogue was that of Bird Expert H. Fogg, who had just taken charge of Sears' bird and pet departments and endorsed a line of canaries...
...match, Connors revived fires of the past to defeat last year's champion, 23-year-old John McEnroe, 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4. The triumph marked Connors' first Wimbledon championship since 1974, an eight-year span between victories topped only by Bill Tilden's nine-year hiatus (1921 to 1930). "I was going to do anything not to let this chance slip by," said Connors afterward. "I was going to fight to the death." Another veteran, two-time Wimbledon Winner Martina Navratilova, 25, slammed...
...since Big Bill Tilden turned the trick 56 years ago has a tennis player taken three straight U.S. Open titles. But this month at Flushing Meadow, John McEnroe, 22, demolished Bjorn Borg, 25, in four sets-4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3-to do just that. Looking tired and drawn after the match, and having received threats against his life, Borg announced that he was going to take a respite from tennis. "I'm going to try and do other things to keep my mind off the game. I hope that when I come back...
...greatest of all time? No one, of course, will ever know how many Wimbledon titles Laver might have won had not the rules against professional players of that era exiled him from the tournament for five years. Nor can it be said how Fred Perry, Big Bill Tilden, Jack Kramer, Pancho Gonzalez and Don Budge might have fared against Borg. But the quality of his competition suggests he may be the best ever. Undoubtedly, more fine players contest tournaments today than at any time in history; incontestably, Borg is the best of them. The match records are astounding: Borg...