Word: bromwich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, as the 58th U. S. Singles tournament warmed up at New York's Forest Hills, it looked as if the Australians (John Bromwich, Adrian Quist, Jack Crawford, Harry Hopman) who had come to the U. S. this summer might well take back to the Antipodes not only the Davis Cup which they won last fortnight and the U. S. Doubles title (won by Quist & Bromwich last month), but-at long last-the U. S. Singles championship...
...Australians were 3-to-1 favorites to regain the Cup they had lost in 1920. Ambidextrous, 20-year-old John Bromwich (Australia's top-ranking player) and stocky, 26-year-old Adrian K. Quist (Australia's No. 2) have been considered the world's best amateur tennists since California's Donald Budge turned professional last winter and Germany's Baron von Cramm retired to the sidelines...
...fact that Riggs won the All-England championship at Wimbledon this year and Parker clinched the Davis Cup for the U. S. two years ago -were considered the weakest Davis Cup players the U. S. had had in a generation. For the doubles-to face seasoned Quist and Bromwich-U. S. Davis Cup Captain Walter Pate selected 20-year-old Joe Hunt and 18-year-old Jack Kramer. It was a last-minute, panic choice. Gene Mako, who had teamed brilliantly with Don Budge in three previous Cup matches, had proved to be a chump with any other partner...
...Long famed as a Giant Killer, Tumblebug Grant, who wears shorts to avoid wear & tear on his trouser knees, will be watched by the Davis Cup Committee more closely than ever this year. Among the tennis giants he has harassed into submission are Jack Crawford, Adrian Quist and Jack Bromwich, the three formidable Australians who (unless they lose the Interzone final) will face the U. S. team in the Davis Cup challenge round at Philadelphia on September...
...player to take a set from him. Even that was disappointing. Budge annihilated Wood, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, in a match almost as unexciting as the other semi-final in which his doubles partner, Budapest-born Gene Mako, unseeded because of insufficient singles play, pricked the big Bromwich bubble, 6-3, 7-5. 6-4. For the first time since the Tilden-Hunter final in 1929, a pair of U. S. doubles champions faced one another for the Singles championship...