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...ranker in women's play and once that way in Connors' court as well, wed British Davis Cup Player John Lloyd in a home-town candlelight ceremony in Fort Lauderdale. The 24-year-old queen of the base lines sounded blushingly unprofessional. Said the woman who has won Wimbledon three times and the U.S. Open four times: "This is only going to happen once...
...that produced Connors or Chris Evert. He even went out for soccer at school. Yet tennis was obviously his game?that touch was always there, that feel for the ball that cannot be taught?and he made a superbly dramatic entrance to the big time: gaining the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1977 at the age of 18, the youngest male ever to do so, before losing to Connors...
...root of such evil; indeed, they consider the closet professionalism of the past to have been much worse for the game. But they fear that an overabundance of lucre has choked off thoughtful cultivation of the sport's foundations. Banned from such prestigious but amateurs-only events as Wimbledon and Forest Hills, professional tennis players once barnstormed in station wagons to play for a cut of the gate at a high school gym. Today's stars are not only welcome at the big-name championships, they are free to jet from high-paying tournaments to still higher paying...
...tournaments in order to earn an honest living. Kramer remembers: "If you took money under the table, you were violating IRS regulations, but the minute you did it honestly and legally, you were out of the big tournaments. It was a cruel system. You'd win Wimbledon and the next time you'd go back, you couldn't get into the locker room. The minute you turned professional, they'd take away your honorary membership in the All-England Club...
Instead top young amateurs today can count on early honing against the sport's best. And the parade of youngsters eager to enter the pro ranks of this newly lucrative sport has become a stampede. John McEnroe, at 18 the youngest semifinalist in Wimbledon history, tossed over a scholarship to turn pro. His earnings, $68,432 to date this year, are far from Borg's $550,141, but considerable for a kid who, not so long ago, survived on an allowance. At 15, Tracy Austin remains an amateur, but one sign of coming times is the fact that...