Word: borotra
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...Tilden, gasping, twisted his haggard face into a smile and shook hands with his conqueror-critics will hold forth for some time to come. Indeed, critics and officials alike were so interested in the champion's debacle that they forgot about everything else, and William Johnston and Jean Borotra started their match an hour late. Johnston, the second ranking player in the world, and steadiest member of the U. S. Davis Cup team, won the first two sets with ease, as he was expected to. Then, amazingly, he lost the next three and the match...
Next day, Lacoste beat Cochet and Borotra beat Vincent Richards...
...Richards had made a stand, if he had put out the sad-eyed Lacoste, the bounding Borotra, he might have become a national figure comparable to Ethan Allen, Commodore Perry or Red Grange. But the momentum of the French was too great; thinking of Tilden's fall, of Johnston's failure, of Williams' calamity, how could he survive alone? So it was Rene Lacoste who faced Jean Borotra in the final...
Little did these two men look like the two first tennis players of the world as they lobbed and patted the ball at each other. Lacoste, whose father is director of the famed Hispano-Suiza Motor Co., seemed barely able to keep open his night-club eyes. Borotra leaped for the net, strained, caracoled, grimaced, and wagged his jaunty head-to no avail. Lacoste's precision was too much for him. In the first and third sets Borotra took the lead by breaking through his friend's service; but Lacoste's lobs were too accurate, Lacoste...
Johnston and Borotra rounded off the series with a free-hitting match, Johnston gambling all on each drive, Borotra bounding wildly. Johnston...