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...once dominated by Americans and Australians is now a polyglot sport with stars from Mexico, Argentina, India, Poland, Sweden and Spain. Such varied talent, combined with the switch at Forest Hills from grass to a claylike surface that does not favor the spasmodic serve-and-volley offense, prompted Wimbledon Champion Arthur Ashe to predict last week that multiple upsets would rock this year's Open. Indeed, former Open Champion Stan Smith was ousted in the tournament's first night match under newly installed lights. As last year's Winner Connors says: "Everybody's a challenger...
...Chris Evert, Wimbledon was more like Waterloo. First she was upset in the semifinals by Billie Jean King. Then ex-Boy Friend Jimmy Connors brought Actress Susan George on his arm to watch his own upset in the men's singles (see SPORT). Said Chris: "He is no longer my fiancé, and all thoughts about marriage have been shelved." All of which helped Billie Jean look like the coolest competitor around. She acquired a striking outfit that she threatened to wear (but did not) to the Wimbledon ball: Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp costume. Then, having proclaimed...
Jimmy Connors' skill at tennis is normally exceeded only by his preening selfesteem. In the preliminary rounds of the men's singles at Wimbledon, Defending Champion Connors, 22, rated No. 1 in the world, had not dropped a set, prompting him to predict smugly that last week's final would be "just another day at the office." Like Connors, the odds makers figured the match would merely be a mildly interesting footnote to tennis history, and that only because his opponent, Arthur Ashe, 31, was the first black to reach the men's finals in Wimbledon...
Tennis From Wimbledon. Women's singles at 12:30 p.m., men's singles at 5 p.m. Ch. 4. Tape delay...
Married. Evonne Goolagong, 23, Australian tennis star seeded fourth in this week's Wimbledon Tournament; and Roger Cawley, 25, a London metals broker; both for the first time; in Canterbury, England. Missing at the surprise ceremony was Vic Edwards, the coach who guided Goolagong to her 1971 Wimbledon victory and recently warned that she would have to choose between love and tennis. Goolagong, who plans to give up neither, announced: "I'm doing what I want, and that's that...