Word: backhand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Experts decided that the most promising young player in the field was 22-year-old Carolin Babcock of Los Angeles who has an unusually powerful backhand, volleys better than Helen Wills Moody, lacks experience and confidence. In the singles she beat England's No. 4, Katherine Stammers, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, then lost to Helen Jacobs...
Against Perry, Wood was wild in the first set, made no effort to prevent Perry from winning it, 6-1. Whisking his well-timed backhand down the sidelines, he won the next two, 6-4, 7-5. After the rest period, Perry evened the match, 6-0, while Wood gathered his forces for the fifth set. The moment that settled the match for last week's spectators at Wimbledon, the moment which will be remembered as the climax of a tournament that lasted for 13 months and in which 27 countries entered teams, came in the fifth set. Perry...
...counted on to win his two singles matches for Australia, that Lott & Stoefen would win the doubles for the U. S. That left the issue of the Davis Cup interzone finals squarely up to Australia's Vivian McGrath (pronounced McGraw), the extraordinary 18-year-old who hits backhand shots with both hands and has, at one time or other, beaten most of the world's best players. If McGrath could win one of his two singles, against Sidney Wood or Frank Shields, Australia was almost certain of playing England in the challenge round. But the chances...
After Shields, playing wobbly tennis, had lost to Crawford, 6-1, 6-2, 12-10, McGrath and Wood walked out on Wimbledon's centre court last week. McGrath, brushing his awkward backhand into the corners of Wood's court, took the first two sets, 7-5, 6-4. Wood stopped smiling, spit out his chewing gum and ran off the third, 6-1. After the ten-minute rest, he still seemed the more confident of the two. When he led at 5-2, it looked as if he had the match well in hand. Then a footfault judge...
...country has more to gain from peace and the sanctity of treaties than France. So it is not surprising to find that many Frenchmen are now saying that France made a tragic mistake in supporting Japan (in a backhand manner) in the Manchurian affair. And they note, with bitterness, that it was the Do Wendel press that wanted to let Japan have her imperial...