Word: beate
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mind turns to the wooden frames he used to win four Grand Slam tournaments, starting with the Australian Open 50 years ago, when he beat his mate Neale Fraser on grass in the final. "I can show you," he says, rising from his dining table and disappearing into another part of his Brisbane home. Though 70 and with two new hips, he moves lightly, returning moments later with a battered racquet. Its head is small by today's standards, but it feels heavy and unwieldy. Cooper's big break in the '57 Open was Fraser upsetting Lew Hoad...
...French Open), placing him in what is today just a nine-member group who've achieved the "small slam." Such a feat yielded no riches in those amateur times, but that's never bothered him. "The players then were friends," he says. "We'd try to beat each other, but then afterward we would have a few beers with our opponent. That doesn't happen today...
...said after the game, in which he scored a game-high 27 points. “I know Penn and Princeton are usually the top games, but there’s some real strong feelings between the two teams. We are basically keeping them on our minds until we beat them again Friday.”BIG FINISHCusworth turned in one of the best outings of his career in the opener at Hanover, perhaps setting the stage for more big performances in his final three games in Crimson colors.Cusworth, who can only play in one semester due to Ivy League...
...course. He's great, no doubt about it - the best he's seen, says his veteran coach, Tony Roche. But there's still only an extremely fine line separating him and about 20 others. Some of these guys may never beat him because they don't believe they can or because there's something about their game that Federer devours. But there's at least a handful who could knock him off on a given day. Beaten five times last year, Federer is flesh and blood, prone to the odd burst of mishits and tension-induced mistakes. A slight injury...
...most likely to beat...