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	[Maria Bueno] [All the best Maria Bueno resources at super-bowl.wonderingware.com]
		BUENO WON THE SINGLES TITLE AT WIMBLEDON THREE TIMES AND AT THE US CHAMPIONSHIPS FOUR TIMES.
		SHE WENT ON TO CAPTURE THE SINGLES TITLE AT THE US CHAMPIONSHIPS, EARNING HERSELF THE NO. 1 RANKING FOR 1959 AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR AWARD.
		THE FOLLOWING YEAR, BUENO WON HER FIRST SINGLES TITLE AT WIMBLEDON, DEFEATING DARLENE HARD, 6-4, 6-3 IN THE FINAL.
	super-bowl.wonderingware.com /1963_in_sports/Maria_Bueno (334 words)

	Wimbledon - 2005 Wimbledon betting information
		Wimbledon, the world's oldest professional tennis tournament, culminates with presentations of Championship Trophies to five sets of Championships, the most visible being the Men's and Woman singles champs.
		Wimbledon's Court No. 2 is known as the "graveyard of champions" because historically it has favored the underdog.
		The Wimbledon trophy for each winner is displayed for several months of the year in the Museum at the All England Club.
	www.docsports.com /wimbledon-2005.html (420 words)

	champion doubles wimbledon
		The official site of the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Club is presented by IBM.
		Doubles Champion: 1961, 1962, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973...
		Wimbledon doubles champion (76) U.S. Davis Cup team, (76-‚78, ‚80, ‚82) Back to Top: Roy Emerson.
	www.logicjungle.com /find-champion+doubles+wimbledon.html (352 words)

	Elizabeth Montague Ryan, 1972 Enshrinee: International Tennis Hall of Fame
		Elizabeth Montague "Bunny" Ryan, a magnificent doubles player who long held the major tournament record for total championships--19 at Wimbledon between 1914 and 1934--dearly wished to win a major in singles.
		Ryan collapsed and died July 8, 1979, at her beloved Wimbledon, the day before King got No. 20 by winning the doubles with Navratilova.
		She and Lenglen never lost (31-0) at the Big W. Yet standing is Ryan's Wimbledon doubles record of 50 straight match victories from 1914 to the 1928 final.
	www.tennisfame.org /enshrinees/elizabeth_ryan.html (407 words)

	WTA WTA, WTA Tour, TENNIS - CBS SportsLine.com
		WIMBLEDON, England -- The WTA Tour is moving its season-ending championships from Los Angeles to Madrid, Spain, next year in a bid to boost the event's profile.
		Since starting in 1972, the season-ending championships have been held in Boca Raton, Fla.; Los Angeles; Oakland, New York and -- in 2001-- Munich, Germany.
		Scott said the WTA would consider moving its championships to Asia in the future.
	cbs.sportsline.com /tennis/story/8608979 (407 words)

	Billie Jean King - MSN Encarta
		King was also successful at the United States championships (renamed U.S. Open at the beginning of the so-called open era in 1968), winning the singles title four times (1967, 1971, 1972, 1974) and the doubles title five times (1964, 1967, 1974, 1978, 1980).
		In 1967 she was the first woman since Alice Marble in 1939 to win the singles, doubles, and mixed titles at both Wimbledon and the U.S. championships.
		Billie Jean King, born in 1943, American tennis player, whose intense competitiveness, outspoken support for better treatment of women players, and victory, in 1973, over former men's star Bobby Riggs in an exhibition match were all instrumental in increasing the popularity of women's tennis.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559878/Billie_Jean_King.html (430 words)

	BEST Chris Evert Wimbledon
		Evert, Chris evert open wimbledon 1976 tennis 1980 1982 chris championships stroke accuracy powerful 1972 lauderdale tournament shots title champion...
		Chris Evert -Lloyd holds aloft the Wimbledon women's singles trophy after beating Hana Mandlikova in the final - Tennis- Wimbledon Championships -...
		Evert showed that booming groundstrokes could succeed on the fast Forest Hills, Wimbledon and...
	www.seekreallyinteresting.info /wimbledon/Chris-Evert-Wimbledon.html (430 words)

	Jimmy Connors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Borg beat Connors comfortably in the 1978 Wimbledon final, but Connors came back and stunned the Swede in straight sets in the US Open final to win 6–4, 6–2, 6–2 in the first final to be held at the new Flushing Meadows venue.
		Connors also acquired a reputation as a maverick in 1972 when he refused to join the newly formed Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), the union which was embraced by most male professional players.
		Having irritated sponsors and tennis officials by shunning the end-of-year Masters championships for the previous three years, Connors entered the competition for the first time in 1977 and beat Borg in the final to win the event.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jimmy_Connors (430 words)

	Navratilova, Martina
		By 1987 Navratilova had won the women's singles championships of the French Open twice (1982, 1984), the Australian Open three times (1981, 1983, 1985), the U.S. Open four times (1983, 1984, 1986, 1987), and Wimbledon a record nine times (1978, 1979, 1982-87, 1990).
		Ranked number one in Czechoslovakia from 1972 to 1975, the left-handed Navratilova won international notice when she led her team to victory in the 1975 Federation Cup.
		Navratilova pitted her serve and volley game against Evert's baseline style in 80 matches, winning 43 of them.
	search.eb.com /women/articles/Navratilova_Martina.html (430 words)

	profile.asp?sport=tennis&ID=21
		Originally a New Yorker, Gladys rose to a No. 1 ranking in Texas, as well as No. 2 in the Southwest; she even appeared at Wimbledon in 1954 and also competed in the U.S. Championships at Forest Hills.
		Although, the Virginia Slims Circuit was an important part of women's tennis, Heldman soon sold her magazine to CBS Publications in 1972 and was out of tennis politics by the middle of the 1970's.
		She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1979 as well as the National Tennis Hall of Fame and will always be remembered as the founder of the Virginia Slims Circuit.
	www.jewsinsports.org /profile.asp?sport=tennis&ID=21 (495 words)

	Maleeva Joins Strong Line Up At Eastbourne - LTA Tennis Nation
		Wimbledon runner-up in 1972 and 1976, Nastase will join Peter Fleming, Johan Kriek, and the ever-popular Amritraj brothers, Vijay and Anand for the special event in Eastbourne.
		Following the excitement of the Boat Race on the Thames, the Oxbridge rivalry will continue on the seaside lawns of Eastbourne during the Hastings Direct International Championships (Monday 14 to Saturday 19 June 2004), when Oxford and Cambridge play their annual tennis Varsity match.
		The students - who will compete alongside the professionals - concentrate all season on this light-blue, dark-blue contest.
	www.lta.org.uk /News/BritishNews/Archives/Archives2004/040514EastbourneMaleeva.htm (1353 words)

	Family Information
		She spent 23 years in the Corporate village at Wimbledon Tennis Championships.
		She is divorced from songwriter Barry Mason with whom she co-wrote the lyrics to hit songs "Delilah" (Composer Les Reed) and "Love Grows Where Rosemary Goes" (Composer Tony Macaulay) and, in 1972, her song "Following You Around" closed the Morecombe and Wise Show.
		His son Sam (Jack’s grandson) last September, became the "fastest man on the planet" when he beat Jason Queally on his "Diablo" recumbent bicycle in a challenge in Nevada.
	www.sylvanmason.com /thunderball/family.htm (1353 words)

	wim_w
		Officially called “The Lawn Tennis Championships” at the All England Club, Wimbledon.
		Became an Open Championship in 1968, but closed to contract pros in 1972.
		Challenge round system (defending champion qualified for following year's final) used from 1877-1921.
	www.fortunecity.co.uk /olympia/fisherman/27/wim_w.htm (54 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Transsexual poses no threat to women's golf
		As Richard Raskind before her sex reassignment surgery, she had been good enough to captain the Yale varsity in 1954, play at Wimbledon and Forest Hills, and later reach the semifinals of the national 35-and-over championships in 1972.
		Richards would bar transsexuals from women's sports if they were in their 20s and still had muscular male physiques that gave them an advantage over other women.
		Richards sees both sides of the issue regarding whether a transsexual should be allowed to play a women's event.
	signonsandiego.com /sports/golf/20040304-0150-glf-stevewilstein.html (862 words)

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