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10-26-2012, 06:38 AM
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I want to hear your Top 3 favourite tennis stories from the 70's & 80's?
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10-26-2012, 09:43 AM
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Victor had coke eyes and was also spoilt in Paraguay since he was the only paraguayan witj worldwide exposure no matter what activity...he also had a wonderful wife but divorced later on Their 1981 clash at Roland Garros was named The Battle of Machos and Pecci deservedly won it in 4 sets
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10-27-2012, 04:34 AM
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10-27-2012, 06:53 AM
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10-27-2012, 09:47 AM
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Well, Mac skipped that party and Chris took the microphone and started her speech..." and I would like to talk on John´s behalf, but unfortunately I just don´t have his vocabulary"...big applause... next day some journalists mentioned that to Connors and he, right at the spot, does.."I´ve been on court with Chris enough times to knoe she can match vocabularies with John anytime"... Chris Evert had been long time fiancee with Jimmy Connors.John Mc Enroe was considered to be his worst enemy...
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10-27-2012, 11:21 AM
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that's all?? more more more!
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10-27-2012, 02:47 PM
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Lendl ad Mac always kicking each other at the locker room after an exo in Italy? Nastase being prosecuted by graebner whom he had just called anemaal or something like that? Borg,Mac and Gerulaitis doing coke togerther at the same italian exo, just a few years before that incident? Connors pointing and threatening Mac at the Chicaho exo? at Suntory? "Next time I´ll bring in my 2 yrs old kid who has better manners than you" (Connors to Mc Enroe afteri their 1980 Wimbledon semifinal. Vilas,Mac and Vitas organizing a rock and roll tennis band where Cash´d join in later on? Connors and Nastase many many funny moments when they played doubles together? oh¡ I am sure I´ll remember of a few more, those are just off my hat, without too much thinking.
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10-28-2012, 09:29 AM
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10-28-2012, 10:37 AM
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Jay,
what´s the aim of your list? do you plan to publish it in any form? cause, than you would need some proof that all those stories really happened the way we remember them  good book by Richard Evans about that era with lots of anectodes.
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10-28-2012, 12:16 PM
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10-29-2012, 01:24 AM
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I'm trying to put a book together for the Golden Era of tennis and am looking for as many stories as possible. Can you please tell me what Richard Evans book is called? Thant would be a big help... Many thanks J |
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10-29-2012, 02:19 AM
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the book is called ´open tennis´- the first 20 years 68-88
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10-29-2012, 05:26 AM
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Richard Mewsham " SHORTCIRCUIT"
Carnival at Forest Hills ( cannot recall writter) Both will complement Evans big knowledge
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10-29-2012, 05:37 AM
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tour(83) Marty Bell - Carnival at Forest Hills. Anatomy of a tennis tournament(75) good recommendations
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10-29-2012, 05:55 AM
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10-29-2012, 06:23 AM
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you thought of the books and i looked in my library to check the right titles,...
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10-29-2012, 08:58 AM
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I've actually read Short Circuit and have bought Carnival at Forest Hills ready to read. But I have not heard of Open Tennis by Richard Evans i'll buy that now. Thank you again. J |
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10-29-2012, 11:58 AM
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By the way hope Sandy - Mayer- has been good to you
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