Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been eight years since a Yank vaulted the net at Wimbledon, and Texas' Chuck McKinley, 22, could be pardoned if his form looked a little rusty. But he cleared it with inches to spare. Then, with a wild whoop of joy, he hippety-hopped up to the royal box, where Princess Marina, the Duchess of Kent, handed him the silver trophy that goes to the winner of the All-England tennis championships - the world's most important tennis tournament...
...Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Daytona "Firecracker 400" Stock Car Championship, from Daytona Beach, Fla. Also, men's singles finals of All-England Tennis Championships from Wimbledon, England...
Margaret Rutherford was born in London in 1892. Her mother died when she was three. She was raised by an aunt, went to school in Wimbledon, and took her training at the Old Vic School of Acting...
...never before managed to put two of the four top titles together. But this season he has been all but unbeatable. He won the Italian, Netherlands, Norwegian and Swiss championships, commenced his pursuit of the slam with victories over Emerson in Australia and France. In July he won at Wimbledon with such astonishing ferocity that Martin Mulligan, another countryman whom he dispatched in barely 53 minutes, gasped: "I must have offended him." By the time he got to Forest Hills, says Laver, "I was so nervous I could hear my knees knocking all right, and the strain may have affected...
...last moment, he can hit a baseline drive flat, give it high-bouncing top spin or grass-skidding underspin. Yet for all his skills, he still seemed too small, too temperamental, too easily unsettled by pressure to achieve a slam. He lost twice in the finals at Wimbledon ('59 and '60); Forest Hills, where he lost in '60 and '61, also seemed to have him jinxed-until last week...