Word: backhanded
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...Moody, playing without an eyeshade, and with a backhand chop which she has incorporated in her game, beat the club professional 7-5 in a practice set, later won the doubles with Mrs. Wightman. Asked why her husband had not come East with her, she replied: "He doesn't like to watch tennis. He had rather stay home and sail a boat...
...Vincent Richards crushed Karel Kozeluh in one of the finest exhibitions of sustained attack I have ever witnessed. ... It seemed to me that he played Richards' backhand too much . . . missed many openings to Richards' forehand corner. . . . Kozeluh was wild and erratic in his efforts to pass Richards...
...first set. Shields pulled even, kept winning his own serve till the score was 6-5 on Borotra's serve. The Frenchman won the advantage point nine times in a row, but could never win the next one against Shields's superb cross-court backhand drives. When it finally became Shields's advantage, it crossed Borotra's mind that he might lose the set on a double-fault...
...everyone's surprise Mrs. William Adams of Cedarhurst put out Eleonora Sears, principally by the use of a tricky backhand shot along the side wall. Then Ruth Hall of Philadelphia, runnerup in the finals last year and sister of J. Gilbert Hall, No. 13 ranking U. S. lawn tennis player, put out Mrs. Adams, 15?4, 15?8. 18?17. She went into the finals against her 16-year-old friend Cecelia Bowes, also from Philadelphia. The first game was fairly close until Miss Hall became sure of what Cecelia Bowes was going to do in any situation...
...Critics, believing Richards looked fat and pallid, favored Kozeluh in the final, and the Czechoslovakian started just as they expected him to. He won the first set 6-2. In the next set Richards started a terrific rally. He matched his volley with Kozeluh's accurate backhand drives and at last broke through service to win 10-8. Then, amazingly, it was the nutbrown, buoyant Kozeluh who tired. The pasty-faced, fiercely concentrated Richards at the net was a far deadlier player than Richards, the slim prodigy who used to beat Tilden sometimes before he turned professional...