Word: backhanded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Captain J. L. Pool '28, No. 1 man on the University team, provided an upset in the finals of the state amateur tournament when his speed and constant playing to his opponent's backhand gained him a victory in three straight sets over M. P. Baker '25 of the B. A. A. holder of the national amateur crown for the year 1926-27. Pool was beaten in the National Championship Tournament in Philadelphia, February 12 by the present champion, H. N. Rawlins '27. The experience and coolness of Rawlins was put to test in five gruelling matches before he overcame...