Boris Becker, 17, ruled Wimbledon as the youngest men’s champion ever. Ivan Lendl finished No. 1 in the world for the second time, a rank he would hold for 157 weeks. Player agents and the Men’s International Professional Tennis Council sued each other for restraint of trade, conflict of interest, and fraud — in terms befitting a mob boss — presaging a power struggle for tour control that would change men’s tennis by the end of the decade.
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