Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Engaged. Chris Evert, 18, Florida's precocious tennis star whose skill on the court has netted her some $ 150,000 since she turned professional last winter; and Jimmy Connors, 21, reigning U.S. pro champion, who made his professional debut in 1972 at Wimbledon, where their courtship began...
Conners made the quarter-finals in both the 1973 Wimbledon and U.S. Open Championships. He defeated Smith last week in the preliminaries of the Grand Prix Masters at Boston before eventually losing to Ilse Nastase...
...blatant about breaking the amateur rule against taking illicit payments and too big in the mouth. He claims that he was at first denied a spot on the U.S. Davis Cup team, though his record warranted it. Later, after he had taken the national singles championship twice and swept Wimbledon in 1939 (singles, men's doubles, mixed doubles), he was still not accorded the respect that contemporaries like Don Budge and Fred Perry received. He just did not look or act like a proper champion. The U.S. Lawn Tennis Association was relieved when he finally turned...
Whether she does or not, she is the logical champion to raise a righteous racket against the heathen. King is not merely the seasoned pro who has won five Wimbledon singles titles and two at Forest Hills. She is not only the grit player who serves, rushes and smashes as if life hung on every point. She is also the arm and brain of women's ten nis, the rebel who broke some of the sport's prissy traditions and made the revolution work. Like it or not, King personifies the professional female athlete that Riggs loves...
...regional tournaments wearing a pair of homemade shorts, cussing herself on the court in most unladylike fashion and eating too much ice cream. When she was 16 she finally began private lessons; Alice Marble took her on as a protegee. Two years later, Billie Jean achieved instant recognition at Wimbledon by upsetting the top seed, Margaret Smith (later Mrs. Court...