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Borg's smashing 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 win brought him his third straight Wimbledon title, a feat last achieved by Fred Perry in the mid-1930s. It also brought the score in the six-year Borg-Connors rivalry, which has produced some of the most thrilling tennis ever, to six matches for the unflappable Swede against eight for the stormy American...
...metronomic groundstrokes raked the corners of the court, upsetting Connors' rhythm and preventing him from battling back with the laser passing shots and pinpoint volleys that are his best strokes. But it was Borg's serve that made this the quickest (107 min.) and most definitive Wimbledon men's final since 1974, when Connors pasted Ken Rosewall in a straight...
...women's final between Chris Evert, 23, and Czech Defector Martina Navratilova, 21, offered drama of a different sort. Evert was coming back from her first tennis vacation since her debut as a 16-year-old at Forest Hills in 1971. She won the first of her two Wimbledon singles titles at 19, and has ruled the game with icy consistency ever since. But sated and weary, she temporarily abandoned the sport this winter. While Chris went home to her parents, Martina came home to her talents. Mastering an emotional temperament and harnessing her formidable gifts to new-found...
...shaky tennis. It took Evert just 27 minutes to win the first set, 6-2, over an obviously nervous Navratilova. It was the Czech's first singles final, and she played its opening games as if in a daze. With Navratilova leading 1-0 in the second set, Wimbledon fans witnessed one of the oddest turning points in the history of Centre Court. Evert lofted a desperate return high over the net, and Navratilova leaped to kill it. But what ought to have been an easy smash wasn't: her high stroke completely missed the ball, which plopped...
...Navratilova, the Wimbledon title is the final, triumphant step in a long, lonely passage. She was just 16 when she first appeared on the international tennis scene, a chubby-cheeked kid with a big serve and an even bigger appetite for the world beyond the quiet (pop. 5,000) Prague suburb of Revnice in her native Czechoslovakia. While the Czech Tennis Federation looked on with growing dismay, young Martina proved to be as precocious off-court as she was in competition. She relished her increasing celebrity and the freedom that went with it. When Navratilova arrived in some American town...