European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday Wimbledon i 11 e belongs to Wade by Geoffrey Miller England api Virgin la the English Rehde aeons Daugh won her first Wimbledon Tennis title St age 31 Friday in front or Queen Elizabeth and a wildly singing British she came from put some into a ragged final and Defeated the tall dutch woman Betty hundreds of fans had slept out on the sidewalks All night for standing the Center court has seen better but nothing quite for inc crowd 11 was the perfect Climax to the Centenary Wimbledon tournament and an unexpected extra item in the Queens Silver Jubilee they waved cheered inc Queen and arid Sang for Shes a Jolly Good fellow As Champion held the Gold plate 14 years o f rus Rallon Wade finally triumphed after 14 years of frustration and failure at it was like a fairy she there was the Queen handing me the and the people were nil cheering and i believe what was i Felt All week i was the strongest person in the dressing Wade i Felt i had More guts than i was confident it was my i am More secure now than f have Ever a lot of people arc not up to Dale on they arc afraid to reassess a i have Virginia referred to charges made by some observers dial she lacked a fighting Jones won in 196t plenty of British women won Wimbledon during its first so when there wort few overseas but Virginia was Only the fourth British woman Champion of the second 50 the others were Dorothy 1931 and Angela and Ann Ross cose and Geoff runners up last won an Al australian mens doubles final edging Phil Dent and John in a five set thriller la slings 45 11 was the fourth time in five matches that Case and masters had to full distance to Clinch the first the losing pair received Jimmy Connors of the and Boom Borg of Sweden were to play for the mens title Wade did not approach the level she achieved to defeating Chris the de fending in the but in she was opposed to a very differ ent kind of the dutch woman towers g 1 Inch and has a reach that seems to cover half the As usual she played in fits and starts and broke up the rhythm of the Wade clearly did not mow what to Matte of this strange opponent at stove sometimes hit double faults her match Tola was nine and sometimes slaps Down unplayable she moved lumbered to the net and Seldom missed her volleys when she got the crowd groaned As she hoisted a perfect to Virginias Baseline in the fifth game and moved on to achieve the first service Wade broke Back immediately for Watson leads Spain Golf Spain a Tom Watson of the held a on stroke Lead Over Spain Antonio Garrido As three rounds of the Barcelona Golf Watsons total was including a 7 underpay 65 in the second but she was not malting her strokes As she likes to in the ninth game stove whacked a mighty forehand past her and then stretched her tall Frame for a Back hand smash and another that won Horthy first Wade improved her gratefully accepted two double faults by the dutch woman in one game and led 30 in the second rack came with ill Lac elegance but n lot of sound to level at that was really the end 6f stoves Chat Wade began to gel her forehand she won three games Bra Row to level no one set and raced away with with the crowd cheering their Heads stove was up against it and suffered cat of the bad she got o couple of doubtful on Page 26j Wimbledon results women singles raw Bruin up of Buty a Clef i Wens doubled a nil rat Ciu aut1ni4 Fann Ai Turku ind pull sell ill Otlea maim my till Del sue pippin it it Wikta v Duill Iru War Tom at Jonn ice Ivoux Doug life Snith afro i tra stove us Allin Phil Bill Lar Itin a a Ftp rat Reid and Kerry 1 Andretti second fastest stars and stripes England Virginia Wade winning Tennis biggest title shows her detractors her fighting spirit in finals Watson paces French up practice by Randy Barnett Sis Auto racing columnist France Sis driving a Brabham Northern Ireland John Watson set the Pace Here Friday in the opening Day of practice for sundays French grand ninth round in the world driving already on the front Row in four races this season but still without a Victo scorched Over the Dijon circuit in 1 seconds Al an average Speed of Miles Par Mario and Ritli of a on the front Row with Watson to the belgian and swedish grands was second fastest Here Friday in a the american had been quickest unlit Ballesteros shoots 66 to Nab Braun Golf Lead Germany seve Ballesteros of nursing a painful fashioned a for a new course record in grab Bing the opening round Lead in the Braun International coif tournament in Jeffel outside of Ballesteros right under score broke the old record of 69 for the par74 Peurach Golf club also breaking the record were South of Ricas Gary player and George Burns of the who had identical scores of 34 and were lied for second who won the French open and last week took the recent uniroyal tournament in had a round that consisted of an eight seven pars and two Ballesteros got off to a Brilliant Start by sinking a 35foot putt for an Eagle on the 496yard Par five first my Back has been bothering me Ever since the masters in the said bal practice too much preparing for Burns had six birdies and no bogeys in his round while player carded an five i pars and one players Eagle came on the 336yard Par 4 fifth his nine Iron shot from 135 Yards out hit several feet past the pin and bounced Back into the David Graham of Australia recorded a 363571 while Bob Charles of new Zea land came in with Karlheinz Goegele of Germany posted a on under 73 on nines of 37 Ireland John Oleary and Italy bal Edovio Dassuk were tied for seventh place with the same scores of last in the Field of nine invitational play ers was Robert de Vicenzo of Argentina the second and third rounds were to be played saturday starting at 9 the final round is also at 9 Watson edged him ust near the end of the the training was held in extreme and limes were very the 17th fastest Driver separated from front runner Watson by just Over a a major disappointment to the French audience Here came when the Renault announced that its formula 1 turbocharged car run Herd the Renault Turbo will Matte its debut at the British grand prix in Silverstone on july third fastest behind Watson and Andretti was Andreotis Lotus teammate Nilsson of Sweden who turned next came world Champion James Hunt of eng land at in a fal Lowed by Carlos Reutemann of Argentina at in a sixth through were Jody Sebec Ficter of South Africa at in Wolfford Allen Jones of Australia at in a Shadow Ford Niki Lauda of Austria at in a Ferrari Jacques la file of Winner of the recent swedish at in Ugie Matra and Hans stuck of Germany at in Brabha Malfa seven other Drivers were under the j but Only Watson and Andret u managed to go under there were no accidents during Fri Days session Twenty nine cars Are entered for the 63rd running of the French grand but Only the 22 fastest will be allowed the final practice session saturday was to decide the starting sundays of 80 laps 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