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The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 166

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The Miami Herald International Edition Monday, April 25, 1983 Perry's No. 1 pick? Tilden in straight sets POPE From IB tional genius reminds me of Rene Cochet, the magnificent Frenchman of the 1920s." So. bring back Perry to his 1936 speed, and how would he play the McEnroe who will try to regain a Wimbledon championship? "It's easy enough to win them from the stands, but I think I'd try to out-con John. I suspect he's a bit lazy at And Perry against five-time Wimbledon king Bjorn Borg, now retired? "Borg is the best game-pointagainst-him player I've ever seen. When he's down, 30-40 or 15-40 or love-40.

he reverts to that pattern where if he has to hit it 101 times, he will. Or would have, when he was at the peak of that unbelievable dedication and concentration. "I'd try to do to him what he did to others. Make him play my game. I had a short swing" Perry even hit the famous running forehand very close to his body I'd take his hits from the baseline early, and I think my volley would help.

Of course, it might go on for three weeks. Borg couldn't have hit the ball past me, so I would wait him out at times and do what Cochet did so well serve, step in, take his next ball early, go to the net. For that matter, the match I'd love to see would be Lew Hoad against Borg. Hoad was better than most thought. He hit so hard and so quickly off the ground, he would have stretched Borg." Now, roll 'em for an imaginary Perry-Connors at both's best.

Perry would "give Connors more short-angle stuff than he usually gets. My main idea, reinforced by Tilden, was never to give them anything they want. Borg was one of the few exceptions to my theory that variety most often succeeds. "My God! You should have seen Tilden change his game to suit every situation when he was No. 1 from 1920 through 1929 before he turned pro in '30, winning three Wimbledons and seven U.S.

Opens." Thus revering Tilden's versatility, Perry stood aghast if, necessarily, not speechless while doing the British Broadcasting Co. commentary for 'Mats Wilander's upset of Guillermo Vilas in last year's French Open final. "Thirty-four games, nearly five hours. Only 11 volleys in all that time. Two drop shots even attempted.

Not a single shoe-mark outside the doubles lines, five sets of shoemarks outside even the singles line. They were playing five feet inside either sideline. The second rally of the first game went over the net 60-odd times, and more than 30 balls never got over the service line. "Wilander and Vilas weren't running at all. They would walk in two paces and hit the ball and walk back.

It was an incredible contradiction to all that Tilden represented in his ability to deal with any kind of shot with total aggression." Perry grows quietly angry over modern tennis' "lack of discipline so little giving, so much taking." He pleads for "more respect for the game, not from the 45 million who play it all over the world, but the glamor players, the show-biz element who seem to get away with everything while returning so little to tennis." He most wants more attention placed on the game's lower levels, "the way a man like Jack Nicklaus campaigns for junior golf." But his voice goes soft again at mention of William Tatem Tilden Fred Perry's All- -Time Greatest No. 1 Bill Tilden, U.S. Best of last 20 years Rod Laver, Australia. Post-World War I1 (alphabetically) Bjorn Borg, Sweden; Jimmy Connors, U.S.: Lew Hoad, Australia; Jack Kramer, U.S.; Laver; John McEnroe. U.S.: John Newcombe, Australia; Ken Rosewall, Australia; Manuel Santana, Spain.

Pre-World War I1 (alphabetically) Bunny Austin, England; Jean Borotra, France; Don Budge, U.S.; Henri Cochet, France; Jack Crawford. Austalia; Roderick Menzel, Czechoslovakia; Baron Umberto de Murpurgo, Italy: Jari Sato, Japan; Tilden; Ellsworth Vines, U.S.: Gottfried von Cramm, Germany. III. "For tennis greatness, you start Tilden. Everything else comes afterward.

I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to offer any numerical ratings. Except that I consider Rod Laver the best of the last 20 years, I would just break the best down into eras, pre-World War II and post-war, because conditions changed so much around then and afterward. Such as the tremendous revolution when truly open tennis in in '68." Perry's modern best behind Laver: "Borg, McEnroe. Connors, Hoad, Jack Kramer. John Newcome, Ken Rosewall, Manuel Santana." His pre-WWII nominees, all below Tilden and excluding himself: "Budge, Cochet, Ellsworth Vines Gottfried von Cramm, Jack Crawford, Jari Sato, Jean Borotra, Bunny Austin, Roderick Menzel, Baron Umberto de Murpurgo." He sighed.

"Unfortunately, today, hardly anyone less than 35 or 40 years old remembers many of them. But I must add this: The best of any era had that certain something that would have made them competitive in any other time. Whether it was Tilden against Borg, or McEnroe against Budge, or Laver against Connors, they would have given us splendid As for Perry, just ask Ted Tinling, the Philadelphia fashion designer and Wimbledon expert. "Fred was so good," says Tinling, 73, "that when Wimbledon honors him next year on the 50th anniversary of his first title there, they will name their southwestern gates the Fred Perry Gates. They've done that just once before, and not for one man but two brothers, the Dohertys, who were such pioneers in the late 19th century and early 20th." Perry used his Continental grip the ax-handle, or basic American backhand grip with blinding brilliance in winning nine of his 10 Davis Cup matches, teaming with Bunny Austin to lead England to four Davis sweeps.

He quit the amateurs in '36 and barnstormed largely with Tilden and Vines. His pro career, too, ended when he fell during a '42 match in New York, "and found out that the Madison Square Garden floor was a hell of a lot harder than my elbow." But he played close to 500 matches against Tilden as a pro. "Every player has certain things he can't do," says Perry, resting in Pompano Beach between buzzing off to California, New York, Jamaica and England for clinics, broadcasting stints and appearances for his sportswear company. "But not Tilden. Bill was always up to something.

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