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...year ago the gangling, inexhaustible teenager became the youngest man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon. Last week Boris Becker, 18, made it clear that the improbable victory was no fluke. He beat the world's No. 1- ranked player, Ivan Lendl, 26, in straight sets with a 150-m.p.h. serve that blurred across the center court's slick grass surface for 15 aces and with volleys that edged deep or skidded down the sidelines. For the West German wunderkind, this year's win was even sweeter than last year's. At a postgame press conference he announced...
...when you win. And when you lose, I think you're wiser." But the Englishman she married in 1979 never regarded tennis as a blood sport or a life. While Chris expressed eagerness even for practice, John had to admit, "It was such a push this year. Normally before Wimbledon it's a breeze...
...Fleet Street was overcast. Sports pages throughout the British Isles have been strewn with black crepe. England's footballers were jobbed in the World Cup at the hand of Maradona; the cricket team was embarrassed by India; Irish Featherweight Barry McGuigan was flattened by a substitute from Texas. At Wimbledon, Best Brits Annabel Croft and John Lloyd were sacked straightaway, and here Lloyd was quitting in a manner that seemed to cinch the national sense of failure...
Connors and Evert Lloyd, fiances of the early '70s, proved their fealty to winning and Wimbledon at the same time, back when his mother helped cool the romance with that chilling line, "Nobody wins Wimbledon on their honeymoon." Of his 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-7 loss to Seguso, 23, Connors said, "I played all right. He was kind of unconscious, serving bomb after bomb. If he'd faltered an inch, I'd have been all over him." Mentioning archly how Seguso must "play up to his responsibility" now, Connors questioned whether the pretender could do it again...
...coming off his second $2 million season, and who has dominated men's tennis for the past year and a half, first-seeded Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia and Connecticut stirs minimal conversation at Wimbledon. His aversion to grass is as well known as its aversion to him, but doubts about Lendl run much deeper than the surface. Breaking through against McEnroe at the U.S. Open last summer seems to have brought him only slightly more confirmation than doing it at the French the year before. Maybe McEnroe, 27, is missed by Lendl, 26, most of all. Without a definitive adversary...