Age Is Served at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, England — Jimmy Connors, looking to show that life resumes at 34, and Martina Navratilova, looking for new life at 30, advanced into the fourth rounds at Wimbledon today with victories on a sun-baked outside court.

Connors, the No. 7 seed, needed almost three hours to defeat Kelly Evernden of New Zealand 6-1, 6-2, 6-7, 6-3. Navratilova, the defending women’s champion and top seed but without a tournament triumph this year, took 47 minutes to polish off Peanut Louie Harper of the United States 6-2, 6-2. Also winning were three-time women’s champion Chris Evert and Peter Doohan, the unseeded Australian who last week knocked Boris Becker out of the competition. In a big upset, Mikael Pernfors of Sweden eliminated 10th-seeded Tim Mayotte of the United States 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-5.