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...tennis has intensified the battle between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and its national affiliates on one side, and an army of promoters, agents and sponsors on the other. Last year a petty jurisdictional dispute kept some of the best men players out of the All England Championships at Wimbledon. Caught in the middle, 40 of the world's top male competitors formed the Association of Tennis Professionals for self-protection. "We are not looking for a power struggle," A.T.P. President Cliff Drysdale said at the time. "However, I shall be surprised if the I.L.T.F. does not confront...
...Court will learn the hard way what he and other veteran players know from long experience: "Never bet against Riggs." There was the time in 1939, for example, when the cocksure Riggs went to London, bet the bookies that he would win the singles, doubles and mixed doubles at Wimbledon-and went home $100,000 richer. Before one match with Don Budge, he strolled among the box seats placing bets with film stars and then went out and won in four sets. John Faunce, who used to hustle $20,000 to $30,000 every spring playing doubles with Riggs...
Three-time Wimbledon champion John Newcombe scored his sixth victory on the 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit, trouncing fellow Austrialian Roy Emerson 6-0, 6-3, and 6-1 yesterday...
...Massachusetts' Twelfth Congressional District is a kind of political Wimbledon where the best two out of three sets mean a winner. Roughly one-third of the district-Cape Cod and the Nantucket Sound islands-is Yankee Republican. Another third-the depressed onetime whaling capital of New Bedford-is ethnically Democratic. The South Boston suburbs stretching from Weymouth to Plymouth are fiercely independent; the candidate who can conquer them while holding his own bloc takes everything...
...career soared he teamed with glowering Ion Tiriac to make Rumania a formidable threat* in big-league tennis. Before last week, Nastase was acknowledged as the world's best on clay. His victory over Ashe-coupled with his close battle against U.S. Champion Stan Smith at Wimbledon last July-proves that he is a top contender for the position last held by Rod Laver: the game's premier player on any surface...