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With no John McEnroe from the start and no Jimmy Connors for long, the 100th Wimbledon felt its age. According to Chris Evert Lloyd, 31, "Anyone who chases that yellow ball around a tennis court has to feel young." To exaggerate the point, last week her husband John lost his opening match and retired from singles competition at 31. The championships took on a theme of passage...
Many had hoped for a quarter-final matchup between the 17-year-old West German and the top-seeded McEnroe; but it was not to be, as the Wimbledon champion fell to Sweden's Joakim Nystrom in four sets...
...Wimbledon's determination not to assign a top women's seed before the world's toniest tennis tournament represented an equal kindness to Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert Lloyd. That meant, for nearly a fortnight, neither was No. 2, and the peace was wonderful. "Once you've been No. 1," as Evert Lloyd says with a cool stare (she could stare for a living), "you can never be satisfied with less...
...enjoy it fully," says Barbara Potter, a self- described "middle-aged tennis player of 23." Yet the joint proprietors of women's tennis, sharers of the past 15 grand-slam events going back to 1981, are the oldest members of the top ten. Coming to their fifth final at Wimbledon, Navratilova, 28, and Evert Lloyd, 30, had met 65 times over twelve years and stood one victory apart. The most enduring rivals in sports, they represent a conflict more fascinating than any tennis match...
...WIMBLEDON, England--Left-hander Tom Gullikson of the U.S. upset 12th-seeded Miloslav Mecir of Czechoslavakia in five sets yesterday in the Wimbledon tennis championships...