Word: wimbledon
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...Svetlana Alliluyeva, only daughter of Joseph Stalin, now living quietly in Princeton, N.J., says that the very idea of revisiting her homeland would be "ridiculous, to think that someone who got out of prison would want to go back to prison." Czech Tennis Star Martina Navratilova, now playing at Wimbledon but resident in Los Angeles, says scornfully that native-born Americans "don't know what they've got. Anybody that complains about life here should go to a Communist country. Then they would understand...
PEOPLE Since ending his on-again off-again engagement to fellow Tennis Champ Chris Evert, Jimmy Connors hasn't bothered playing the singles scene off the court. Last week, as he bulled his way through the opening rounds of tournament play at Wimbledon, Connors' most passionate fan was Marjorie Wallace, Miss World of 1973 and the Cleopatra of the jock set (previous conquests: Soccer Superstar George Best and the late Peter Revson, a top Grand Prix driver). "We've been close now for six months and travel everywhere together," said Margie happily. "Jimmy is teaching me tennis...
After her sixth singles victory at Wimbledon last summer, Billie Jean King, 32, retired from competitive singles tennis, but she is busier?and richer?than ever. Last year's "retirement" schedule included sportscasting for ABC-TV, playing for the New York Sets in the World Team Tennis league and publishing her monthly womenSport magazine (circ. 200,000). With additional income from advertising endorsements, the King Enterprises group?the financial empire that Billie Jean reigns over with her very supportive husband Larry?will gross more than $1.5 million this year. "I lived on $90 a month as an amateur...
Died. May Sutton Bundy, 88, early U.S. tennis star who won the singles tournament at Wimbledon in 1905 and again in 1907, becoming the first of 14 American women to capture the venerable English championship; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...once dominated by Americans and Australians is now a polyglot sport with stars from Mexico, Argentina, India, Poland, Sweden and Spain. Such varied talent, combined with the switch at Forest Hills from grass to a claylike surface that does not favor the spasmodic serve-and-volley offense, prompted Wimbledon Champion Arthur Ashe to predict last week that multiple upsets would rock this year's Open. Indeed, former Open Champion Stan Smith was ousted in the tournament's first night match under newly installed lights. As last year's Winner Connors says: "Everybody's a challenger...