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...pleased to see the increased interest in tennis, which started in 1968 when professionals were first allowed to play at Wimbledon. It is healthy for the game that more good players can make a comfortable living from it. I do have reservations about some of the directions that tennis is taking. I do not enjoy watching one-set matches. Even the best player can lose a set. Also, I do not like what they are calling audience participation. The language sometimes used between players and spectators is embarrassing and tends to bring the game down to a mediocre level. Still...
Grand Slammer Budge was the first player to win the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships in the same year...
Though Connors, a lefty, took 14 of the 20 tournaments he played in last year, including Wimbledon and Forest Hills, many fans still consider Newcombe the world's premier player. Newcombe, 30, has won Wimbledon three times (1967, '70, '71) and Forest Hills twice (1967, '73). Moreover, he beat Connors in both of the tournament matches that the two have played, including the tightly contested final of the Australian Open earlier this year...
When Connors was barred from the French Open in 1974, he lost the chance to become only the third male player (Don Budge and Laver were the others) to win the tennis Grand Slam, which includes Wimbledon, Forest Hills and the Australian Open as well as the French Open. Late last week in an unrelated action, A.T.P. Director Jack Kramer filed a $3 million suit against Connors and Riordan accusing them of making "defamatory" statements about...
...Connors went to U.C.L.A. where he promptly won the N.C.A.A. singles title. Impatient with school and amateur tennis, he dropped out to turn pro in January 1972. "I have no regrets," he says. "I can always go back, but I might never win Wimbledon again...