Word: wimbledonized
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Despite the apparent folly of this quandary, such a scenario is currently being played out in the otherwise quiescent law-abiding game of tennis. The imminent withdrawal of Bjorn Borg and Ivan Lendl--two of the game's reigning troika--from Wimbledon has confounded the complacent tennis establishment, Lendl and Borg's threatened decisions not to play in the game's most prestigious tournament highlight the damage single-minded prima donnas inflict on the sport's reputation. Formerly distinguished by its courtly respect for propriety and unwaivering adherence to time-cherishes customs, tennis now suffers from an image crisis...
Borg, whose five consecutive Wimbledon titles earned him the tennis world's adoration, is upset that the All-England Lawn Tennis tournament committee will be unable to seed him this year. In addition, he might have to play qualifying round matches because his seven-month layoff evaporated all traces of his world ranking...
Meanwhile, Ivan Lendl, the game's hottest player, decided to pass up Wimbledon to avoid a likely letdown after all the recent euphoria surrounding his six-tournament win streak. He has emerged victorious in five of his last six encounters with John McEnroe, the world's top-ranked player. But at Wimbledon, his payoffs are traditionally paltry. In a total of three outings, he has only reached the quarterfinal round once. Realizing that slippery, unpredictable grass courts are less hospitable to his power-paced grooved baseline game, the 21-year-old Lendl reasons. Why take two weeks off prior...
With Jimmy Connors dynamoed-out, Roscoe Tanner permed-out, and Vitas Gerulaitis sped-out, Wimbledon hardly promises the stellar quality of tennis it has provided in the past two years. After all, Mac Attack was pressed to reveal his shot-making legerdemain because of the fierce competition provided by arch-rival Borg...
...there is a players' paradise, rest assured: when Kate Hepburn and Hank Fonda arrive, there will be trumpets, and comets, and a celestial Wimbledon waiting for them...