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Tennis players compete nearly every day and wear out early, but here is Bjorn Borg, 34, the five-time Wimbledon champ, beginning a comeback. There seems to be no physiological reason that Borg, a burnout case at 26, couldn't rank in the Top 10 again. Tennis is much faster now, mostly because of big, composite rackets, and so far Borg intends to use his old wooden relics. But doubters may recall that he re-made his game once before, when he added a big serve in 1978 after he had won Wimbledon a couple of times. Tennis comebacks aren...
While the entire country seems to be going the way of Harvard, internationalizing, the American sports scene is becoming increasingly self-centered. With the end of the Cold War has also come the end of the fervor over international sports rivalries. Only huge events such as Wimbledon, the U.S. Open tennis tournament and the World Cup soccer tournament manage to find a niche among the plethora of American-only sports news...
...lost her fourth-round Wimbledon match to the No. 1 seeded Steffi Graf. So what? In a sport of whining millionaires, the 14-year-old U.S. phenom was endearing and ebullient in defeat: "I enjoyed being out there with her. I thought she was just great." Love match...
...trend research, to discover what is In or Out. The newest trend in holidays, for instance, is to avoid other Germans -- even if that means spending a month in Patagonia. The drift in sports is to golf; tennis has become "too popular" since Boris Becker first took the Wimbledon crown in 1985. Although the waiting period in Germany for Mercedes-Benz's latest sports car, the $77,000 500SL, is four years, the trendy automobile is something like an Isdera Imperator, built by a small company in Stuttgart, which uses a Mercedes-Benz V-8 engine but certainly does...
What distinguishes a champion in any sport is an unquenchable drive to meet goals set from within. For Lendl, the goal at Wimbledon seems not to be victory so much as Zen-like peace of mind about doing his best: "I did not want to look back and wonder, 'If I tried this or that . . .' " After years of his being an unpopular hero, that dogged determination is at last winning him fans -- and memories may follow...