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...French Open was a triumph. To do it at 17 was a wonder. But Michael Chang seemed to grasp more than just the moment when he beat Ivan Lendl and Stefan Edberg in Paris to join the company of world-champion tennis players. Chang was wise enough to understand, "These two weeks are going to stay with me the rest of my life," but excited enough to imagine, "Maybe someday I'll be able to achieve something greater." More than a few days later, the sport is still tingling with his possibilities...
...German Championship of popular forecasts was right as the rain until Stefan Edberg cut in on Boris Becker, 4-6, 7-6, 6-4, 6-2. Five years ago at Wimbledon, they opposed each other during the junior championships, and Edberg both beat Becker and won the tournament to nominate himself as the coming star. But the two Australian titles and some $4 million he has earned at 22 have managed to appear paltry next to Becker's back-to-back Wimbledons in 1985 and 1986 and world celebrity...
...scene from Camille; the Connecticut- Czechoslovak Ivan Lendl continues to stand by, waiting for U.S. citizenship; and Becker simply makes everyone smile. Losing to the sleepiest of the Swedes, he obstreperously slammed down his racket and curdlingly called out to the sky. But at the end, Becker gently touched Edberg's golden trophy and charmed people again. "I just wanted to remember how it felt," Boris laughed...
Saying "I hardly could miss the ball," Edberg for once displayed the serenity and not just the stoicism of the five-time champion Bjorn Borg. "All of us in Sweden grew up watching Borg in the finals of Wimbledon. Now I've won Wimbledon too. It's quite fun actually." Asked if it might change him, he responded, "It hasn't yet." (At least half an hour had gone by.) In other words, he would be maintaining his English residence in Chelsea? "No, Kensington." And not be moving to Monte Carlo, nearer the night life and farther from the taxmen...
...time for tennis and me." He said he could envision American tennis becoming like soccer, "where the rest of the world is crazy about it, and nobody in the U.S. gives a damn." But Lendl, 28, the lead Swede Mats Wilander, 23, the Australian Pat Cash, 23, Becker and Edberg are at least worth one damn, and Steffi will play the winner...