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...winter performing on one of three tours, and the spring and summer competing for one of 16 teams or zigzagging between dozens of tournaments, the once orderly sport has become a blurred kaleidoscope of perpetual motion. Twice a year though, tennis addicts get a reprieve: in July at Wimbledon and this month at Forest Hills, where the world's best players, male and female, gather to battle for top honors. As the U.S. Open got under way last week, it captured the expansive look of Tennis 1974. Items...
...Reflecting an American tennis resurgence, Forest Hills has not had so many strong U.S. contenders in years. Wimbledon Champion Jimmy Connors is seeded No. 1, with Stan Smith ranked third, Arthur Ashe seventh and Marty Riessen eleventh. Behind them is a host of hungry players on the threshold of winning their first big tournament: Dick Stockton, Roscoe Tanner, Sandy Mayer and Brian Gottfried...
...Every top player is a loner. You're not a follower. You're a leader," explained Wimbledon Women's Singles Champ Chris ("The Icicle") Evert, 19, after her easy victory over Russia's Olga Morozova. Fortunately, Loner Chris has another leader to lean on: Wimbledon Men's Winner Maverick Jimmy Connors, 21, who demolished Ken Rosewall in straight sets. Jimmy and Chrissie established a record of sorts: they are the first fiancés ever to win at Wimbledon in the same year, and got a big hand when they led the dancing...
Billie Jean King, 30. One of the world's leading sports personalities, she has won five Wimbledon championships. For the past three years she has earned more than $100,000 annually; largely because of her audience appeal, the once measly purses on the women's tour are now nearly on a par with those paid to men. In 1973 feminist supporters everywhere applauded as she ran Bobby Riggs, the male supremacist, off the court. This year King and her husband are co-publishing a new magazine, womenSports...
...singles ace Roger Taylor was voted the man on the WCT tour with the best legs by members of the Slims tour. The handsome Taylor has been in the middle of off-court brouhahas, like last year's Wimbledon boycott--but the one thing he just can't take is bird whistles immediately preceding his serve. While he hasn't gone into the stands to attack a fan yet, like Jimmy Connors did at one Baltimore Banners match the pale, finely-chiseled features of the Englishman go patch-pink when he gets hot or bothered, lots of bright red blotches...