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1977 US Open Champion: Guillermo Vilas
Winning the 1977 U.S. Open over Jimmy Connors at the last championship held at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills was Vilas’s greatest triumph on tour. #USOpen usopen.org
published: 17 Aug 2017
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Benson & Hedges Tennis Championships advert 1977 HQ
Transfer from a Philips N1500 VCR.
The 1977 Benson & Hedges Championships, also known as the Wembley Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Wembley Arena in London, England that was part of the 1977 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 14 November until 18 November 1977. First-seeded Björn Borg won the singles title.
From my collection of tapes here.
published: 29 Nov 2019
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SYND 23 7 77 HIGHLIGHTS OF PLAY IN THE DAVIS CUP IN PARIS
(22 Jul 1977) Highlights of play in the Davis Cup matches between France's Francois Jauffret & Romania's Ilya Nastase & between France's Patrick Proisy & Romania's Dimitri Haradau. Both Frenchmen won.
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SYND 3 2 77 CHAMP BORG ANDFIANCEE SIGN FOR THE WORLD TEAM
(3 Feb 1977) Tennis champion, Bjorn Borg and fiancee, tennis pro, Mariana Simionescu sign up for the World Team.
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Ilie Năstase Interview (January 10, 1977)
TENNIS; IKE SEAMANS REPORT ON NATIONAL TENNIS SHOW MIAMI BEACH CONVENTION CR. MANUFACTURER SHOW WARES; TENNIS STAR ILE “NASTY” NASTASE (SOT).
Ilie Theodoriu Năstase (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈli.e nəsˈtase] (listen), born 19 July 1946) is a former World No. 1 Romanian tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 in singles from 23 August 1973 to 2 June 1974, and was the first man to hold the top position on the computerized ATP rankings. Năstase is one of the 10 players in history who have won over 100 total ATP titles, with 64 in singles and 45 in doubles.
Năstase won seven major titles: two in singles, three in men's doubles and two in mixed doubles. He also won four Masters Grand Prix year-end championship titles and seven Grand Prix Super Series titles (1970–73), the precursors to the c...
published: 03 Apr 2023
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SYND 17 9 77 DAVIS CUP SEMI-FINALS BETWEEN ITALY AND FRANCE
(17 Sep 1977) Italy's Adriano Panatta beating France's Patrice Dominguez in semi-finals of the Davis Cup tennis tennis match.
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SYND 7 11 77 MEN'S OPEN TENNIS TOURNAMENT ORANTES BEATS WARWICK
(6 Nov 1977) Highlights of men's singles finals in the Japanese open tennis tournament in Tokyo. American Manuel Orantes wins 6-2,6-1 in the match against Australian Kim Warwick.
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US Open 1977 Final - Guillermo Vilas v Jimmy Connors (part 1)
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published: 07 Jul 2023
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Unused Exploding Head Test for Ron Howard's Apollo 13
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Björn Borg Defeats Jimmy Connors at Pepsi Grand Slam (January 23, 1977)
BORG'S HOT HAND TOOK ALL THE TRICKS
Although Jimmy Connors made a strong bid, Bjorn Borg played with a good deal more finesse and won the $200,000 Grand Slam of Tennis—in spades
Skillfully stroking his way through $200,000 worth of Pepsi-Cola cans, not to mention weather out of Ice Station Zebra, Bjorn Borg proved at the Grand Slam of Tennis that if you punish a child enough he'll learn to do things right.
What Borg finally learned to do last Sunday afternoon in a Boca Raton, Fla. condominium nirvana called Boca West, which seemed more like Klondike South, was defeat Jimmy Connors. In their eight previous matches Borg had won only once—the first time they met back in 1973—but this time he combined well-chosen lobs and a clever little low backhand chip shot with his characteristic looping...
published: 22 Oct 2023
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1977 US Open Champion: Guillermo Vilas
Winning the 1977 U.S. Open over Jimmy Connors at the last championship held at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills was Vilas’s greatest triumph on tour. #...
Winning the 1977 U.S. Open over Jimmy Connors at the last championship held at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills was Vilas’s greatest triumph on tour. #USOpen usopen.org
https://wn.com/1977_US_Open_Champion_Guillermo_Vilas
Winning the 1977 U.S. Open over Jimmy Connors at the last championship held at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills was Vilas’s greatest triumph on tour. #USOpen usopen.org
- published: 17 Aug 2017
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Benson & Hedges Tennis Championships advert 1977 HQ
Transfer from a Philips N1500 VCR.
The 1977 Benson & Hedges Championships, also known as the Wembley Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on indo...
Transfer from a Philips N1500 VCR.
The 1977 Benson & Hedges Championships, also known as the Wembley Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Wembley Arena in London, England that was part of the 1977 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 14 November until 18 November 1977. First-seeded Björn Borg won the singles title.
From my collection of tapes here.
https://wn.com/Benson_Hedges_Tennis_Championships_Advert_1977_Hq
Transfer from a Philips N1500 VCR.
The 1977 Benson & Hedges Championships, also known as the Wembley Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Wembley Arena in London, England that was part of the 1977 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 14 November until 18 November 1977. First-seeded Björn Borg won the singles title.
From my collection of tapes here.
- published: 29 Nov 2019
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SYND 23 7 77 HIGHLIGHTS OF PLAY IN THE DAVIS CUP IN PARIS
(22 Jul 1977) Highlights of play in the Davis Cup matches between France's Francois Jauffret & Romania's Ilya Nastase & between France's Patrick Proisy & Romani...
(22 Jul 1977) Highlights of play in the Davis Cup matches between France's Francois Jauffret & Romania's Ilya Nastase & between France's Patrick Proisy & Romania's Dimitri Haradau. Both Frenchmen won.
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(22 Jul 1977) Highlights of play in the Davis Cup matches between France's Francois Jauffret & Romania's Ilya Nastase & between France's Patrick Proisy & Romania's Dimitri Haradau. Both Frenchmen won.
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SYND 3 2 77 CHAMP BORG ANDFIANCEE SIGN FOR THE WORLD TEAM
(3 Feb 1977) Tennis champion, Bjorn Borg and fiancee, tennis pro, Mariana Simionescu sign up for the World Team.
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(3 Feb 1977) Tennis champion, Bjorn Borg and fiancee, tennis pro, Mariana Simionescu sign up for the World Team.
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(3 Feb 1977) Tennis champion, Bjorn Borg and fiancee, tennis pro, Mariana Simionescu sign up for the World Team.
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Ilie Năstase Interview (January 10, 1977)
TENNIS; IKE SEAMANS REPORT ON NATIONAL TENNIS SHOW MIAMI BEACH CONVENTION CR. MANUFACTURER SHOW WARES; TENNIS STAR ILE “NASTY” NASTASE (SOT).
Ilie Theodoriu Nă...
TENNIS; IKE SEAMANS REPORT ON NATIONAL TENNIS SHOW MIAMI BEACH CONVENTION CR. MANUFACTURER SHOW WARES; TENNIS STAR ILE “NASTY” NASTASE (SOT).
Ilie Theodoriu Năstase (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈli.e nəsˈtase] (listen), born 19 July 1946) is a former World No. 1 Romanian tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 in singles from 23 August 1973 to 2 June 1974, and was the first man to hold the top position on the computerized ATP rankings. Năstase is one of the 10 players in history who have won over 100 total ATP titles, with 64 in singles and 45 in doubles.
Năstase won seven major titles: two in singles, three in men's doubles and two in mixed doubles. He also won four Masters Grand Prix year-end championship titles and seven Grand Prix Super Series titles (1970–73), the precursors to the current Masters 1000. He was the first professional sports figure to sign an endorsement contract with Nike, doing so in 1972.[4] Năstase wrote several novels in French in the 1980s, and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991.[5][6]
https://wn.com/Ilie_Năstase_Interview_(January_10,_1977)
TENNIS; IKE SEAMANS REPORT ON NATIONAL TENNIS SHOW MIAMI BEACH CONVENTION CR. MANUFACTURER SHOW WARES; TENNIS STAR ILE “NASTY” NASTASE (SOT).
Ilie Theodoriu Năstase (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈli.e nəsˈtase] (listen), born 19 July 1946) is a former World No. 1 Romanian tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 in singles from 23 August 1973 to 2 June 1974, and was the first man to hold the top position on the computerized ATP rankings. Năstase is one of the 10 players in history who have won over 100 total ATP titles, with 64 in singles and 45 in doubles.
Năstase won seven major titles: two in singles, three in men's doubles and two in mixed doubles. He also won four Masters Grand Prix year-end championship titles and seven Grand Prix Super Series titles (1970–73), the precursors to the current Masters 1000. He was the first professional sports figure to sign an endorsement contract with Nike, doing so in 1972.[4] Năstase wrote several novels in French in the 1980s, and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991.[5][6]
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SYND 17 9 77 DAVIS CUP SEMI-FINALS BETWEEN ITALY AND FRANCE
(17 Sep 1977) Italy's Adriano Panatta beating France's Patrice Dominguez in semi-finals of the Davis Cup tennis tennis match.
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(17 Sep 1977) Italy's Adriano Panatta beating France's Patrice Dominguez in semi-finals of the Davis Cup tennis tennis match.
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(17 Sep 1977) Italy's Adriano Panatta beating France's Patrice Dominguez in semi-finals of the Davis Cup tennis tennis match.
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SYND 7 11 77 MEN'S OPEN TENNIS TOURNAMENT ORANTES BEATS WARWICK
(6 Nov 1977) Highlights of men's singles finals in the Japanese open tennis tournament in Tokyo. American Manuel Orantes wins 6-2,6-1 in the match against Austr...
(6 Nov 1977) Highlights of men's singles finals in the Japanese open tennis tournament in Tokyo. American Manuel Orantes wins 6-2,6-1 in the match against Australian Kim Warwick.
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(6 Nov 1977) Highlights of men's singles finals in the Japanese open tennis tournament in Tokyo. American Manuel Orantes wins 6-2,6-1 in the match against Australian Kim Warwick.
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US Open 1977 Final - Guillermo Vilas v Jimmy Connors (part 1)
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Unused Exploding Head Test for Ron Howard's Apollo 13
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The guys at the Stan Winston Studio are having some fun with an unused helmet & head that Digital...
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The guys at the Stan Winston Studio are having some fun with an unused helmet & head that Digital Domain requested for Ron Howard's Apollo 13. The creators decided not to use it because it was too gory.
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Björn Borg Defeats Jimmy Connors at Pepsi Grand Slam (January 23, 1977)
BORG'S HOT HAND TOOK ALL THE TRICKS
Although Jimmy Connors made a strong bid, Bjorn Borg played with a good deal more finesse and won the $200,000 Grand Slam of...
BORG'S HOT HAND TOOK ALL THE TRICKS
Although Jimmy Connors made a strong bid, Bjorn Borg played with a good deal more finesse and won the $200,000 Grand Slam of Tennis—in spades
Skillfully stroking his way through $200,000 worth of Pepsi-Cola cans, not to mention weather out of Ice Station Zebra, Bjorn Borg proved at the Grand Slam of Tennis that if you punish a child enough he'll learn to do things right.
What Borg finally learned to do last Sunday afternoon in a Boca Raton, Fla. condominium nirvana called Boca West, which seemed more like Klondike South, was defeat Jimmy Connors. In their eight previous matches Borg had won only once—the first time they met back in 1973—but this time he combined well-chosen lobs and a clever little low backhand chip shot with his characteristic looping topspin forehand to upset Connors 6-4, 5-7, 6-3.
The victory avenged Borg's only significant loss of 1976, the U.S. Open, but more important was the way he threw the monkey of self-doubt off his back. No one stroke or series of points could do that. Steel will could, and did. "The difference this time?" Borg said. "This time I was knowing I can beat him."
Heretofore, Borg always has been a man against the field, a boy against Connors. And in the late gloom of the second set it looked as if he would fall apart again.
Here Borg was, having won the first set and ahead 4-3 in the second, with three break points against Connors' serve and a chance for a 5-3 lead. But Connors took his opponent's lobs out of the dark sky and pounded them clear for the game. Here Borg was with a 5-4 lead and three match points, but he failed again—once on an easy backhand drive off a short ball with Connors frozen at the net. The ball struck the tape and fell backward, whereupon Borg smashed it with his racket savagely into the net.
It was a unique display of emotion for the normally stolid 20-year-old, and he threw away the set in the next two games. The teen-age Borg would have been finished then. But this Borg came charging back in the third set to break Connors' serve in the fourth game. To withstand Connors' break back in the fifth. To get the key break in the sixth on two gorgeous backhand passing shots, and ultimately to run out the match.
"I play him high ones, low ones," said Borg. "This is unbelievable big win for me."
And a rich one. Borg's $100,000 first prize was more than the entire amount he earned in winning his 1976 Wimbledon and WCT titles. Connors' winner's paycheck of $30,000 at Forest Hills was less than his runner-up Grand Slam take of $50,000.
With all its loot, Grand Slam could have been the ultimate video cum lettuce sports special. Yet this particular event had some legitimacy. To begin with, the Grand Slam had the winners of the four most prestigious tournaments in the world—Borg (Wimbledon and WCT), Connors (Forest Hills) and Adriano Panatta (the French Open). Since Borg had won two of the big four, the fourth player was Manuel Orantes, the 1975 Forest Hills winner who last year won the Grand Prix Masters championship.
Next, the final match was televised live right then rather than seven months later in between the 2 a.m. Veg-o-matic commercials.
Thirdly, the tournament was conducted in a thoroughly professional manner by the sponsor, Pepsi-Cola, which, because of its nine-year sponsorship of a worldwide junior tennis program, as well as lessons in 45 inner U.S. cities, believes it has no apologies to make to tennis.
And finally, unlike many events of this nature, the players were on the scene well ahead of time. They practiced diligently. They were coddled only to certain limits. When Connors made some noise about refusing to play in the windy, 40° first-day chill, he was told in no uncertain terms he would play.
As Pepsi publicist Joe Block said in between hitting some forehands of his own in one of the clinics his company provided for clients, "Hardly a tennis tournament goes by that Pepsi is not involved in putting money back into the sport. We don't believe a four-man event is a threat to tournaments. It's just that when you can get four of the top guys in the world, guaranteed, why take pot luck on the finals of some tournament?"
But is it a TV show, Joe?
"If it was a TV tape, we wouldn't do it." Block said. Then he grinned. "But if there was no TV, it wouldn't exist either."
On Saturday, Panatta dug his huge serve into the slate-gray clay to come from behind and nearly upset Borg. Having split the first two sets, they struggled through four service breaks in the third before Panatta led 5-4 and held match point three times. But in a game that went to seven deuces, Borg held firm. On the third match point against him, all Borg could do was shiver in his tracks and watch as Panatta aimed a passing shot down the line. But the ball hit the net cord and bounced back. Borg held two ads before winning the game for 5-5. Then he ran off eight straight points to take the set and match 6-2, 4-6, 7-5.
https://wn.com/Björn_Borg_Defeats_Jimmy_Connors_At_Pepsi_Grand_Slam_(January_23,_1977)
BORG'S HOT HAND TOOK ALL THE TRICKS
Although Jimmy Connors made a strong bid, Bjorn Borg played with a good deal more finesse and won the $200,000 Grand Slam of Tennis—in spades
Skillfully stroking his way through $200,000 worth of Pepsi-Cola cans, not to mention weather out of Ice Station Zebra, Bjorn Borg proved at the Grand Slam of Tennis that if you punish a child enough he'll learn to do things right.
What Borg finally learned to do last Sunday afternoon in a Boca Raton, Fla. condominium nirvana called Boca West, which seemed more like Klondike South, was defeat Jimmy Connors. In their eight previous matches Borg had won only once—the first time they met back in 1973—but this time he combined well-chosen lobs and a clever little low backhand chip shot with his characteristic looping topspin forehand to upset Connors 6-4, 5-7, 6-3.
The victory avenged Borg's only significant loss of 1976, the U.S. Open, but more important was the way he threw the monkey of self-doubt off his back. No one stroke or series of points could do that. Steel will could, and did. "The difference this time?" Borg said. "This time I was knowing I can beat him."
Heretofore, Borg always has been a man against the field, a boy against Connors. And in the late gloom of the second set it looked as if he would fall apart again.
Here Borg was, having won the first set and ahead 4-3 in the second, with three break points against Connors' serve and a chance for a 5-3 lead. But Connors took his opponent's lobs out of the dark sky and pounded them clear for the game. Here Borg was with a 5-4 lead and three match points, but he failed again—once on an easy backhand drive off a short ball with Connors frozen at the net. The ball struck the tape and fell backward, whereupon Borg smashed it with his racket savagely into the net.
It was a unique display of emotion for the normally stolid 20-year-old, and he threw away the set in the next two games. The teen-age Borg would have been finished then. But this Borg came charging back in the third set to break Connors' serve in the fourth game. To withstand Connors' break back in the fifth. To get the key break in the sixth on two gorgeous backhand passing shots, and ultimately to run out the match.
"I play him high ones, low ones," said Borg. "This is unbelievable big win for me."
And a rich one. Borg's $100,000 first prize was more than the entire amount he earned in winning his 1976 Wimbledon and WCT titles. Connors' winner's paycheck of $30,000 at Forest Hills was less than his runner-up Grand Slam take of $50,000.
With all its loot, Grand Slam could have been the ultimate video cum lettuce sports special. Yet this particular event had some legitimacy. To begin with, the Grand Slam had the winners of the four most prestigious tournaments in the world—Borg (Wimbledon and WCT), Connors (Forest Hills) and Adriano Panatta (the French Open). Since Borg had won two of the big four, the fourth player was Manuel Orantes, the 1975 Forest Hills winner who last year won the Grand Prix Masters championship.
Next, the final match was televised live right then rather than seven months later in between the 2 a.m. Veg-o-matic commercials.
Thirdly, the tournament was conducted in a thoroughly professional manner by the sponsor, Pepsi-Cola, which, because of its nine-year sponsorship of a worldwide junior tennis program, as well as lessons in 45 inner U.S. cities, believes it has no apologies to make to tennis.
And finally, unlike many events of this nature, the players were on the scene well ahead of time. They practiced diligently. They were coddled only to certain limits. When Connors made some noise about refusing to play in the windy, 40° first-day chill, he was told in no uncertain terms he would play.
As Pepsi publicist Joe Block said in between hitting some forehands of his own in one of the clinics his company provided for clients, "Hardly a tennis tournament goes by that Pepsi is not involved in putting money back into the sport. We don't believe a four-man event is a threat to tournaments. It's just that when you can get four of the top guys in the world, guaranteed, why take pot luck on the finals of some tournament?"
But is it a TV show, Joe?
"If it was a TV tape, we wouldn't do it." Block said. Then he grinned. "But if there was no TV, it wouldn't exist either."
On Saturday, Panatta dug his huge serve into the slate-gray clay to come from behind and nearly upset Borg. Having split the first two sets, they struggled through four service breaks in the third before Panatta led 5-4 and held match point three times. But in a game that went to seven deuces, Borg held firm. On the third match point against him, all Borg could do was shiver in his tracks and watch as Panatta aimed a passing shot down the line. But the ball hit the net cord and bounced back. Borg held two ads before winning the game for 5-5. Then he ran off eight straight points to take the set and match 6-2, 4-6, 7-5.
- published: 22 Oct 2023
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