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Taubman continued his study of the superstar's style - both on and off the court - during interviews with his tennis-pro mother Gloria Connors and his Wimbledon-winning sometime fiancée Chris Evert. Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein talked to Connors' manager Bill Riordan, tennis officials and a courtful of American and Australian pros, including Newcombe. When Rosenstein grew up in Brooklyn, his game was boxball, a kind of street tennis that is played with a "Spaldeen pinkie" ball on a court made up of sidewalk squares. "These pros have a certain panache," Rosenstein concedes, "but they couldn...
Connors saved his lowest comedy for last. On a rainy afternoon at an old Hollywood sound stage turned indoor court, the 1974 Wimbledon and Forest Hills champion missed a shot during practice and unabashedly yanked down the seat of his pants before half a dozen wide-eyed watchers...
Background: Chris Evert was the top women's tennis player in 1974 as she won an astonishing 71 of 78 tournament matches and took 16 of the 23 tourneys that she entered. Her string of victories included Wimbledon, the French and Italian Opens...
Move over, Howard Cosell. "I don't want to be just a tennis player," said Billie Jean King, 31, last week. The five-time Wimbledon singles champ and four-time Forest Hills singles winner who in 1971 became the first woman athlete ever to earn more than $100,000 a year announced that she had won a two-year contract from ABC Sports. Her salary is estimated to be in six figures. "I would never take less than a man," she said succinctly. Between commitments, King will comment on a variety of network programs, cover the 1976 Olympics...
...lately been in something of a slump. Thus much of the suspense settled on the question of whether Chris Evert could complete her rapid transit from crown princess to empress of the sport. Grass is not her favorite surface, though that did not stop her from taking the Wimbledon crown this summer. But King's grit could reassert itself, and a number of foreign competitors, including Australia's Evonne Goolagong and Russia's Olga Morozova, are around to keep the action crisp...