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Buffs who watch Vic Braden's televised Tennis Tips often come away saying, "He ought to write a book." Well, he has. His Tennis for the Future, written with Bill Bruns (Little, Brown; 274 pages; $12.95), is the Wimbledon of the wildly proliferating genre of tennis instruction books, clearly outclassing all the others. With humor, psychology, basic physics, clear diagrams and multiple-exposure pictures by John G. Zimmerman, Braden demolishes many long-cherished (and totally wrong) notions about tennis strokes and strategy. Readers are left with what is probably their first clear insight into why that elusive, fuzzy ball...
...women's competition also produced a crowd-pleasing winner-and a new title for an old favorite. Britain's Virginia Wade-"Our Ginny'- had appeared in 15 Wimbledons, always to crumple under the pressure of carrying her nation's hopes. This time, Wade, now 31, fought her way into the finals against Holland's solid Betty Stove, 32, who at 6 ft. 1 in., 160 lbs. is the strong -and slow-journeywoman of the circuit. In the first set of their face-off the Wade Wimbledon Choke appeared ready to repeat itself as the Englishwoman...
...days went by, Wimbledon's green grass courts became an elephant's graveyard for international stars such as Rod Laver, 38, who was eliminated by Dick Stockton in three sets in the first round; Ilie Nastase, 30, victim of his own bad behavior and Borg's precisely controlled passing shots; and Billie Jean King, 33, slowed by knee surgery, who fell to Chris Evert, 22, in the quarterfinals. The record-breaking and-by Wimbledon's well-bred standards-surprisingly rowdy crowds adopted as their darling a 14-year-old, pigtailed Californian named Tracy Austin. The youngest...
...side, young Americans were playing like veterans. John McEnroe, an 18-year-old from New York City reached the semifinals and made another bit of Wimbledon history: he is the youngest player to survive as far as the final four. When he arrived at the tournament, his status as an unseeded player was so lowly that he was not even allowed to use the main dressing room Victories over New Jersey's Alex Mayer, Egypt's Ismail El Shafei and Australia's Phil Dent, among others, earned him access to the stars' dressing room -and center...
Connors played erratically for most of the tournament, going to five sets with Stan Smith before pulling out a win. He was bothered by an injury sustained in a pre-Wimbledon practice session and played with a metal splint on his right thumb...