TENNIS
The invited Russians never showed up, but 272 other tennis hopefuls did. Seventy-six players from 28 nations on both sides of the Iron Curtain even whizzed in on a chartered plane from Amsterdam, poor-mouthing in many tongues that they were used to clay courts and expected to play miserably on the grass. Australia sent seven men, and the Common Market chipped in two each from Belgium and The Netherlands, four from France, three from Germany and one from Italy. But for the first time in the eight dreary years since Tony Trabert...
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