Word: wimbledon
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While the entire country seems to be going the way of Harvard, internationalizing, the American sports scene is becoming increasingly self-centered. With the end of the Cold War has also come the end of the fervor over international sports rivalries. Only huge events such as Wimbledon, the U.S. Open tennis tournament and the World Cup soccer tournament manage to find a niche among the plethora of American-only sports news...
...lost her fourth-round Wimbledon match to the No. 1 seeded Steffi Graf. So what? In a sport of whining millionaires, the 14-year-old U.S. phenom was endearing and ebullient in defeat: "I enjoyed being out there with her. I thought she was just great." Love match...
...trend research, to discover what is In or Out. The newest trend in holidays, for instance, is to avoid other Germans -- even if that means spending a month in Patagonia. The drift in sports is to golf; tennis has become "too popular" since Boris Becker first took the Wimbledon crown in 1985. Although the waiting period in Germany for Mercedes-Benz's latest sports car, the $77,000 500SL, is four years, the trendy automobile is something like an Isdera Imperator, built by a small company in Stuttgart, which uses a Mercedes-Benz V-8 engine but certainly does...
...Already these fresh-faced youths show signs of ennui. Says Arthur Ashe, the former everything of U.S. tennis: "Half a dozen 20-year-olds are playing now with net worths around $15 million to $20 million. It's natural their desire will drop." Billie Jean King, who competed at Wimbledon until age 39, partly because the big-money days came along late in her career, agrees about the prevalence of burnout: "Graf has lost her intensity, and emotionally she's not there. Becker seems to be just going through the motions. Edberg...
What distinguishes a champion in any sport is an unquenchable drive to meet goals set from within. For Lendl, the goal at Wimbledon seems not to be victory so much as Zen-like peace of mind about doing his best: "I did not want to look back and wonder, 'If I tried this or that . . .' " After years of his being an unpopular hero, that dogged determination is at last winning him fans -- and memories may follow...