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...international competition isn't unusual for Stanley, who last year played on the 12-and-under World Junior circuit--a tour that included stops at the Junior Italian Open, the Junior Italian Open, the Junior Wimbledon championships, and the Junior U.S. Open...
SEPARATED. Chris Evert Lloyd, 29, tennis champion (three times at Wimbledon, six at the U.S. Open); and John Lloyd, 29, one-time member of Britain's Davis Cup team; after nearly five years of marriage, no children. Explained Chris: "We need time to be by ourselves...
RECONCILED. Jimmy Connors, 30, aggressive comeback king of tennis who last year won both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open for the first time since 1974; and Patti McGuire Connors, 31, Playboy's 1977 Playmate of the Year; after Patti canceled a hearing last week in the divorce suit she filed last May; in Miami...
While the scuffed grass of the All England Club's Centre Court began its annual post-championship airing out, this year's Wimbledon winners, John McEnroe, 24, and Martina Navratilova, 26, were being toasted during the post-tournament dinner at London's Savoy Hotel. McEnroe, who crunched New Zealand's Chris Lewis in the straight set men's finals, had even worked on his backhanded temperament, going so far as to shake hands with the umpire and referee after one match. "I think I've made a conscious effort to get along," said...
...thrill of a lifetime," proclaimed Vice President George Bush, 59, after he and five-time Wimbledon Winner Bjorn Borg, 27, came from behind in a friendly but hard-fought game of doubles at Stockholm's Royal Tennis Hall to defeat Sweden's former Davis Cup Star Jan-Erik Lundquist, 46, and the country's Ambassador to Washington, Wilhelm Wachtmeister, 60, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3. The winning team's post-mort opinions of each other's play reflected the differing strengths of their diplomatic strokes. "I think he played very well," said Borg...