Word: backhand
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...some reason Sarah, two years younger, made headway faster. Helen Wills played Sarah last summer at the Essex County Club Tournament and said afterward: "She is the best girl player of her age I ever saw." Mianne's main trouble was that she had no confidence in her backhand, became nervous at the wrong moments. Last week in the finals of the Women's National Indoor Singles Championship, Mianne dropped five games to Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, then rallied furiously to win the match and the Women's National Indoor Title...
With the cup at stake, young Player Lott played hard and headily. He took ten games from Cochet, including the second set at 6-3. But his brilliant shots were mixed too much with just-misses. His backhand was specially spotty. He let Cochet have the next-to-last...
...Jacobs, 6-1, 6-2. Fifteen thousand people watched Miss Jacobs rush about the court, applauded with chilling politeness her brilliant recoveries. With no more enthusiasm did they greet the cold, feline accuracy of the Wills game. Helen Wills knows that the best Jacobs shot is a cross-court backhand. Rarely was Helen Jacobs able to use it. There was no drama as once there had been when Miss Wills, winning, was suddenly unnerved, defeated by the swarthy Suzanne Lenglen, who found new strength and boldness by drinking a glass of brandy. Helen Wills last week was simply the best...
...slender, black-haired Manhattanite, Racqueteer Sheldon learned at Eton his fast, dashing, strong-on-the-backhand game...
...around deep in its opponent's territory, maintaining a steady fire on the enemy cage. With the stanza half gone, Giddens took a pass from A. S. Bigelow '30, weaved his way from right to left clear of the points, and sent the disc into the net on a backhand shot to knot the count...