People

By Guy D. Garcia

He wears a diamond stud in one ear, loves to pub-crawl with his hometown "yobbos" (rowdy pals), dotes on heavy-metal rock and has even been known ) to play a lick or two. So it figures that last week Pat Cash would find a most untraditional way to celebrate when he became the first Australian in 16 years to win the men's singles crown at Wimbledon. After routing Ivan Lendl 7-6, 6-2, 7-5, Cash, 22, threw a ball into the crowd and then clambered up the packed grandstand to embrace his father Pat Cash Sr. Remarked a Wimbledon official primly: "It was the first time anything like that has happened." Once dubbed the Australian McEnroe for his on-court temper tantrums, Cash appears to have mellowed since his girlfriend Norwegian Model Anne-Britt Kristiansen gave birth to their 14-month-old son Daniel. Cash, though, still gets faulted by feminists. Dismissing women's tennis as "junk," he told Woman's Own magazine, "If I played a practice game with ((Boris Becker)) when the women's final was on, we'd have more people watching us." Volleyed back Tennis Ace Pam Shriver: "He seems like someone who is a little narrow-minded and maybe a little dumb." Advantage Shriver, mate?

With reporting by David E. Thigpen/New York