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...Players, starring Ali MacGraw, 39, and Dino Martin, 26, a tennis professional as well as an actor, not to mention being Dean Martin's son. She plays an ambitious older woman who meets an aspiring young tennis pro in Mexico and coaxes him to the center court at Wimbledon (the film unit rented the site for around $35,000). Adding piquancy to the situation is the fact that Ali's ex, Robert Evans, is the producer. How does Ali handle the passage to older womanhood? With bravura. Says she: "I think it's about time women...
...blazing Borg and a controlled Navratilova take Wimbledon...
After two weeks of rain and royalty, of upsets on Centre Court and strawberries and cream in the members' enclosure, the All-England tennis championships at Wimbledon finally got down to the business at hand: deciding who are the world's finest tennis players. For the first time since 1972, the two top-seeded men and the two top-seeded women in the game survived to do battle on Centre Court for the singles titles. On successive days, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova and Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors -great young tennis stars in fine form -treated Wimbledon...
Meanwhile, it seems that all of the Boston Lobsters, that fun-lovin', division-leadin' crew, were finally overhauled by a bevy of fanatic chefs during Wimbledon. Alas. The only escapee was Martina Navratilova, who, we are happy to re-report, caught the women's singles title over Chris "Baseline Machine" Evert. Congratulations...
...more functional side, the Wimbledon finals will be on the tube Saturday afternoon. At this writing, the men's finalists are Borg and Connors, and Martina Navratilova and the redoubtable Chris Evert will duke it out for the women's crown. And for you lovers of the Boston Lobsters, who are still off on their Wimbledon break, well, at last report the team was hotly pursued by a chef with a New burgh recipe. Stay tuned. Seriously, the Wimbledon finals will be on Channel 4, starting Saturday at 12:30 and going on until the cows come home...