Word: wimbledonized
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...people swear." MARK PHILIPPOUSSIS, Australian tennis player, after spewing obscenities at the umpire during his Wimbledon loss to Tim Henman and for which he was fined...
Lleyton hewitt was just a few months old when, on July 4, 1981, two giants of tennis played a watershed match. The introverted Swede Bj?rn Borg, trying to win Wimbledon for a sixth straight time, met the volatile American John McEnroe in the final. Their playing styles were as different as their temperaments: Borg was a machine, McEnroe an artist. When the challenger prevailed, it was clear to all observers that he was now the world's best. Borg certainly knew it - only 25, he quit the game soon afterward...
...failure; in East Orange, N.J. Before the Civil Rights Act, she spoke volumes by playing an unapologetically fierce serve-and-volley game that dominated the women's side of the sport in the late '50s. As the first African American to compete in a Grand Slam, win titles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals and join the L.P.G.A. golf tour, she cleared a path for Arthur Ashe, Tiger Woods and the Williams sisters. (Her advice to Venus before she became the first black woman since Gibson to win Wimbledon, in 2000: "Move your feet.") Yet the former Harlem street truant...
...sure we are not at Wimbledon?" ANASTASIA MYSKINA, Russian tennis player, on the extensive rain delays at this year's U.S. Open...
...sure we are not at Wimbledon?" ANASTASIA MYSKINA, Russian tennis player, on the extensive rain delays at this year's U.S. Open