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Despite the excitement generated by Wimbledon, in all of England there are only 20 indoor courts--in Boston alone there are over 100. An hour a week is set aside for team practice at Oxford--Harvard teams practice a minimum of 20. And where the Cambridge squad has no coach, the Harvard squad will have both a head coach and an assistant this fall...
Neither player was at the top of his game, but Borg seemed particularly confused by McEnroe's forceful approach shots and crushing net attack. The Swede, who had won five consecutive Wimbledon titles until McEnroe took that championship from him this summer, failed to follow his serve to net and frequently passed up opportunities to attack during sharp backcourt exchanges...
...McEnroe and Bjorn Borg, who, incredibly, has yet to win the American crown after nine tries. She has long since yielded her claims to the title of "the youngest ..." to the girls in pigtails: Tracy Austin won the finals of the U.S. Open at 16; Kathy Rinaldi played at Wimbledon at 14; Andrea Jaeger was the youngest Wightman Cup player at 15. But the ultimate superlative is well within her reach. At 26, Evert Lloyd is just a handful of major championships away from being proclaimed the greatest woman player ever...
...addition to her U.S. titles, she has won the French Open four times and Wimbledon three. Her total of twelve singles championships in these three tournaments is exceeded only by Margaret Court (with 15) and Helen Wills Moody (19). In these most prestigious tournaments, she has never failed to reach the semifinals, winning 145 matches and losing just 14. She has held the world's No. 1 ranking in six of the nine years she has played as a professional. Says Martina Navratilova, one of the few foes to challenge Evert Lloyd successfully over the years: "Billie Jean King...
After winning last year's U.S. Open and this year's Wimbledon, she has regained her top ranking from Tracy Austin. Some day one of her three-month breaks will stretch into a genuine retirement, and tennis will lose a great and gracious champion. But right now Chris Evert Lloyd is at the top of her game-and not ready to yield. "I've been in the public eye since I was 16, and that's hard. But when you struggle with something and come through, it means more. It means more now when...