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After that weflew to London, where I played in the Wimbledon warm-up tourney and,then, in the junior version of the granddaddy of all tennis tournaments, Wimledon. It was all really exciting, especially when Bjorn Borg was playing on the next court over. After his match ended, it seemed like the whole crowd came over to watch me. It was pretty cool...
Neither can Bjorn Borg, who won Wimbledon yet again against pesky John McEnroe in a splendid display of tennis. Nor can Tommy Hearns, who thumped the imposing welterweight Pipino Cuevas in a recent fisticuff duel that left even the boxing intelligentsia spouting nothing but superlatives. Nor can Roberto Duran, who showed that the impregnable wall of hype built up around welterweight Sugar Ray Leonard could be rammed through in a bare ring. Nor can the Soviet Olympic Committee, which continues to insists that the Olympics were an unmitigated triumph; nor can the U.S. Olympic Committee, which maintains that the Games...
Though the sun did not shine much, a couple of players did. Bjorn Borg, 24, rolled to his fifth straight title, setting a record of 35 consecutive match victories in Wimbledon play. Evonne Goolagong Cawley, 28, the most graceful player to take Centre Court in a generation, outclassed Chris Evert Lloyd to capture her second Wimbledon title...
...sentimentalist's women's final. Evert Lloyd first won Wimbledon at 19, later added one more title. Goolagong was 19 when she won the title in 1971, enchanting English fans with her fluid strokes and gliding style. Both are married women now, and they came to the tournament as underdogs, only to play brilliantly. Evert Lloyd deposed the reigning champion, Martina Navratilova, 23, and Goolagong stopped the rising star, Tracy Austin, 17, to meet for the crown. But it was Goolagong, playing tennis as though it were a sonata, not a sport, who carried...
...next two and in the fourth set was only a point away from winning the championship no fewer than seven times. But McEnroe held him off again and again, finally winning an extraordinary 18-16 tie breaker that will be remembered as one of the most dramatic in Wimbledon history. In the fifth set neither man was able to break the other's serve until Borg did so in the 14th game for an 8-6 victory and a record fifth consecutive Wimbledon title. "It was my hardest and best championship," he said after the match. And then...