Word: wimbledon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Generation after generation of tennis champions have measured their worth against the memories of Wimbledon. But in all those years Centre Court, with its pampered lawn, its banked grandstand packed with royal patrons and regally sportsmanlike fans, has belonged to Borg as it has to no one else. The sight of him, Wimbledon Cup held aloft in vic tory, has become as much a part of the Fortnight, as the British call the pre mier tournament of tennis, as members taking tea in their rose-covered enclosure, or the hundreds of fans patiently queuing for strawberries and cream beneath green...
Borg's niche in Wimbledon history is already spaciously secure. In the modern tennis era, only one man, Australia's Rod Laver, has won four Wimbledon crowns...
Borg need only win four early-round matches to eclipse Laver's mark of 31 consecutive match victories in Wimbledon play...
...lustrous is Borg's Wimbledon record that it somewhat obscures the other achievements of a remarkable champion...
...captured a record five times. He thus became the youngest man ever to win one of tennis' grand-slam events.-Last month Borg won the French Open with such consummate, straight-set ease that he lost a mere 38 games while winning 126. > At 20 he won his first Wimbledon title in a straight-set trouncing of IIie Nastase. He was the youngest men's champion in the game's modern era. > At 22 he was victorious in six consecutive tournaments and three round-robin events?in all, 55 straight matches. Along the way, he tied Perry's record...