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Like Newcombe, Connors is adept at mixing strokes. "When a guy's playing Jimmy," says Pancho, "he doesn't know what to expect. Jimmy will stay back and play base line, then rush the net. He can lob you or beat you down the alley with a winner. He's impossible to predict." Much of the credit for that unpredictability belongs to Segura, a Clausewitz of subtle shots and stratagems. As a small player who uses a two-handed forehand, Segura is in many ways the perfect teacher for Connors. Before all of Connors' big matches, he and Pancho, currently...
This Saturday he hits the richest pay dirt in tennis history ? the battle with Newcombe at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Encouraged by the success of last February's nationally televised winner-take-all match between Connors and Rod Laver (which Jimmy won by a score of 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5), CBS is paying $600,000 for the rights to broadcast live this second "Heavyweight Championship of Tennis." Caesars Palace is adding a purse of $250,000 plus $50,000 for expenses. The sale of foreign broadcast rights should yield another $100,000. The approximate...
Enter Connors, one of the hottest amateurs, winner of the national collegiate singles championship as a freshman at U.C.L.A. Riordan was recommended to Connors by Jimmy's grandmother, Bertha Thompson, herself a former pro, and Connors quickly signed to play professionally for him. "I told Jimmy," recalls Riordan, "if you want to be No. 2 in one of the W.C.T. groups, you'll be a nonentity. But if you want to be the best-known tennis player in the world, come with me." Connors says he felt he would get more experience on the less glamorous tour because "I wouldn...
...never thought of it being my fifth Masters title-not until it was over and I was slipping on the green coat," declared Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 35, who collected $40,000 in prize money and one more winner's jacket at the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga. Others were more acutely aware of Nicklaus' achievement. "I can't say how I feel," said an anguished Tom Weiskopf, who lost the lead and eventually finished second (for the fourth time), in a tie with Johnny Miller. "How do you describe pain?" For Nicklaus, the tournament's most...
...almost totally white audience reacted warmly to Shockley, greeting him with the applause usually worthy of a debate winner. But that should have been predictable. YAF had filtered out any possible dissenters, either by their exclusionary ticket policy--100 of the 265 seats went to YAF members--or by the deterrent of more than 20 plainclothesmen who checked and rechecked the stubs, and searched for cameras and tape recorders, banned from the event for fear of some sort of insurrection. Those in the first row had to be careful at the end of the debate not to be trampled...