Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wimbledon--strawberries and cream, crested blazers, green grass courts, and all that. And for the last four years, Bjorn Borg...
DIED. Simone Mathieu, 71, French tennis star and Resistance heroine; after a long illness; in Paris. In the 1930s, Mathieu won three women's doubles titles at Wimbledon. Sentenced to death by the Vichy government for helping to organize the Free French movement in London, she led Charles de Gaulle's Compagnie de Voluntaries Françaises, known as the "French WACs...