Word: backhand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...championship. Miss Lizana had beaten Miss Jedrzejowska twice before this season in Europe, but Miss Lizana prefers ice cream and candy to meat. Consequently it came as a surprise to most spectators when she proceeded to give the sinewy Pole a third trouncing by pounding her slow backhand, catching her flat-footed with deft drop-shots, 6-4, 6-2. Then, after being photographed with her first U. S. championship cup, first won by a foreigner since Betty Nuthall did it in 1930, little (5 ft.) Champion Lizana swooned away...
Champions. Tennis' unofficial No. 1 and unofficial No. 2 are technically almost twins. Both hit with apparently effortless length and accuracy, forehand and backhand; both have a deadly overhead, a stinging service. Both are stylists whose repertory takes in all the shots that tennis knows. All-court players, they can chop, drop-shot, lob or volley with equal fluency. But no two characters could be so antipodal as 22-year-old Donald Budge and 28-year-old Gottfried von Cramm...
...Germany into the Davis Cup interzone final four times (1932-35-36-37). He has played 74 Davis Cup matches and lost only 14, five in his first season. He has defeated every leading amateur in the world. Last year in the French champion ships, fortified by a cleaner backhand stroke he had learned from William Tatem Tilden, he beat Fred Perry for the title. Then the following month at Wimbledon he strained a thigh muscle and lost to Perry in the final...
...looked as though some one else would have to do the clinching. Miss Hardwick hit the ball harder than Miss Jacobs. She had also an excellent backhand but a bad tendency to wait for a dropping ball on her forehand. She kept Miss Jacobs so busy chasing fast, net-skimming drives close to the lines in the first set that she won it in spite of her un orthodox forehand style, 6-2. Then Helen Jacobs got her famous chop working, sent her opponent an endless procession of floating teasers, worried the second set away from...
...week-end the court of claims met at Forest Hills, L. I. Pretender Crawford's cohorts were weakened by an attack of intestinal flu which had laid low Adrian Quist, and an infected right hand which hampered Vivian McGrath, the curly-haired eccentric who plays a two-fisted backhand. Left at Crawford's side was only blond young John Bromwich who, even more eccentric than McGrath, is ambidextrous as well as two-fisted...