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A blazing Borg and a controlled Navratilova take Wimbledon

After two weeks of rain and royalty, of upsets on Centre Court and strawberries and cream in the members' enclosure, the All-England tennis championships at Wimbledon finally got down to the business at hand: deciding who are the world's finest tennis players. For the first time since 1972, the two top-seeded men and the two top-seeded women in the game survived to do battle on Centre Court for the singles titles. On successive days, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova and Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors...

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