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...After botching the first set, lanky Althea Gibson of New York's Harlem conquered her jitters and her longtime nemesis, California's Louise Brough, to win the Northern Women's Singles title in Manchester, England, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, and establish herself as the favorite to win next month's Wimbledon championship...
...Club taught her court tactics and coaxed her into daily practice. By 1948, at the age of 20, she was Negro women's champion. The prim and proper U.S.L.T.A. could not long evade inviting her to Forest Hills, and there, in 1950, she gave former National Champion Louise Brough the scare of her life before Louise's experience and talent finally pulled her out of the match. Ranked seventh in the U.S. in 1953, Althea went out to Missouri's Lincoln University (Negro) to teach physical education and coach the men's tennis team...
Once more the absence of Little Mo Connolly put the women's championship up for grabs. Everyone seemed to have a chance. First, second-seeded Louise Brough was upset by tiny Belmar Gunderson; then third-seeded Beverly Baker Fleitz was overrun by 17-year-old Junior Champion Barbara Breit. In the end, though, steady Doris Hart held on to her title. In a one-sided final, she whipped England's Pat Ward...
...rain-slicked turf of Philadelphia's Merion Cricket Club, Wimbledon Champion Tony Trabert whipped his Davis Cup Teammate Vic Seixas and took away the Pennsylvania State Grass Court championship, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. Earlier, in the Pennsylvania and Eastern women's final, Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough beat New York State Champion Althea Gibson for the women's title...
...complete an American sweep of the Wimbledon Singles titles, California's Louise Brough needed every trick in the book to outlast California's Beverly Baker Fleitz 7-5, 8-6. A Wimbledon winner in 1948, '49, and '50, Tennis Stylist Brough is now halfway to Helen Wills Moody Roark's Wimbledon record of eight championships...