AP Sportlight

AP Sportlight
Compiled By PAUL MONTELLA
By The Associated Press
July 7
1911 -- Dorothea Lambert Chambers sets the record for the shortest championship match at Wimbledon -- 25 minutes -- by routing Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in the women's final.
1934 -- Elizabeth Ryan teams with Simone Mathiau and wins her record 12th women's doubles title at Wimbledon, defeating Dorothy Andrus and Sylvia Henrotin 6-3, 6-3.
1955 -- Beverly Hanson wins the inaugural LPGA Championship.
1973 -- In the first all-U.S. women's Wimbledon final, Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert 6-0, 7-5.
1974 -- In Munich, West Germany beats the Netherlands 2-1 to win soccer's World Cup.
1980 -- Larry Holmes retains his WBC heavyweight title with a seventh-round TKO of Scott LeDoux in Bloomington, Minn.
1982 -- Steve Scott sets a U.S. record in the mile, winning in 3:47.69 in Oslo, Norway.
1985 -- Boris Becker, 17, becomes the youngest champion and first unseeded player in the history of the men's singles at Wimbledon with a 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (3), 6-4 victory over Kevin Curren.
1990 -- Martina Navratilova wins her ninth Wimbledon women's singles championship, beating Zina Garrison 6-4, 6-1, to break the record she shared with Helen Wills Moody.
1991 -- Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini 6-4, 3-6, 8-6 to capture her third Wimbledon women's title.
1993 -- Tom Burgess tosses three touchdown passes, and Wayne Walker scores twice as Ottawa spoils the debut of the CFL's first American-based team by beating Sacramento 32-23.
2002 -- Juli Inkster matches the lowest final-round score by an Open champion with a 4-under 66 for a two-stroke victory over Annika Sorenstam in the U.S. Women's Open. It's her seventh major, most among active players.
2005 -- Baseball and softball are dropped from the Olympic program for the 2012 London Games, making the two American-invented sports the first events cut from the Olympics in 69 years.
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