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Fred Astaire he is not, but Jimmy Connors nonetheless cuts a debonair figure in top hat and tails. The occasion for swapping whites for white tie: World Tennis magazine was formally celebrating his 1982 ranking as No. 1. Last year Connors, 30, won both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, but he elected not to play in the Davis Cup last week. His countrymen could have used him; the U.S. team was knocked out in the first round by the Argentines in Buenos Aires. Connors might not have been much help; last week he was defeated by an unknown from South...
Last April, Borg returned to tournaments from a five-month rest, grudgingly giving in to the game's stiff rulemakers, who require even a five-time Wimbledon champion to play his way back into grace through qualifying matches. But at Las Vegas, Borg's second stop, he abruptly lost to Dick Stockton. "Half the time, he's serving with two balls in his hand," Stockton puzzled. "How can a guy with a two-handed backhand play with a ball in his hand...
...space, on the court he looks almost like an Indy racer. "I won't turn in the racquet al together. I will play when I feel it. It is possible I will play some tournaments just for fun. But I will never play the big ones like Paris, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open...
Although Borg grew up on clay, Centre Court at Wimbledon will al ways seem his turf, and the unfading memory will be of Borg losing the 34-point tiebreaker to McEnroe in 1980, then winning the four-hour match in the fifth set. Anyway, it may have been just as well that he did not win at Flushing Meadow. On Wimbledon's lawn, Borg customarily dropped to his knees at the instant of victory. On cement, neither Stenmark nor Borg could have taken much of that...
Borg dominated the tennis world in the second half of the 70s, winning an unprecedented five straight Wimbledon titles. But the blond, headbanded Swede dropped out of the pro circuit last year, declining to play Wimbledon after tournament officials ruled that his inactivity would have forced him to complete in the qualifying rounds...