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...game to stars of the court and the Hollywood screen; in La Jolla, Calif. Lean and leathery, Tennant changed women's tennis from a defensive base-line game into an aggressive, serve-and-smash attack. Third-ranked U.S. woman player in 1920, she soon started coaching and made Wimbledon champions of Alice Marble, Maureen Connolly and Bobby Riggs. "Teach," as she was nicknamed by one of her finest show-biz pupils, Carole Lombard, was also courtside mentor of Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich and Groucho Marx...
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...
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...