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...glance at the roster adequately justifies the team's expectations. This year the squad will be ably led by sophomore Howard Sands, a top ranked player at the junior national level and a veteran of both junior Wimbledon and US Open Competition, who boasts perhaps the best strokes in college tennis...
...years and five consecutive Wimbledon titles later, Borg's reputation in Australia is worth much more than a dollar-$749,999 more. And three-quarters of a million dollars was not all that Borg and his archrival John McEnroe divided for playing three back-to-back exhibition matches in Australia last week. There was also a solid silver tennis racquet, coated with gold and worth another $50,000, for the winner of the best two-out-of-three confrontations (two matches in Sydney, one in Melbourne...
...transformed into a tennis stadium for the first two matches. Seats ranging from $36 to $3,600 (for courtside boxes) were laid out behind a row of dainty lemon dahlias. Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium was transformed even further for the final match. Kooyong is Australia's Wimbledon, the most hallowed tennis ground under the Southern Cross. But Kooyong's center court is grass, and Borg refused .to play on that fast surface. So Promoter Paul Dainty shelled out another $48,000 to build a wooden platform and synthetic surface over the grass, allowing a five-inch airspace...
...center court and commenting: "Tell Borg we're covering the court with his favorite surface." The players, however, insisted that money wasn't the issue. Said McEnroe: "It would be good to get a psychological edge by winning here." Said Borg: "John McEnroe is my threat to Wimbledon. The threat will be less if I beat him in Australia...
...year-old Wimbledon champion and Aetna insurance company representative told an audience of 100 at the Law School that "We're doing ourselves a disservice by not becoming more involved in insurance...