Word: brugnon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pairings for the U. S. Singles tennis championships in Philadelphia were drawn in gloomy belief that Jacques Brugnon and Bernard Destremau of France, Charles Hare of England, Ferenc Puncec, Frank Kukuljevic and Demeter Mitic of Yugoslavia will be summoned home for war duty before the tournament ends next week...
...enormously stimulating prospect of a Budge v. Perry final, the Men's Singles Championship at Forest Hills last week had very little to add. A leg injury forced Defending Champion Wilmer Allison to withdraw his entry. The rest of the seeded players included Jacques Brugnon and three young Frenchmen performing in the U. S. for the first time to gain experience; that coterie of second-flight U. S. stars, like Sidney Wood, Bryan Grant, Frank Parker and Gregory Mangin, who long ago made it clear that their playing would never justify their potentialities; and the latest schoolboy sensation from...
...team was un doubtedly young left-handed André Merlin, fourth ranking player of France, who had impressed Cochet and Lacoste, the non-playing captain, as more determined than Christian Boussus, who ranks a notch ahead of him. If Merlin lost his matches to Perry and Austin, Borotra and Brugnon would have to win the doubles, Cochet would have to win both his singles matches. Most observers conceded the doubles to France, thought Cochet had a better than even chance against Austin. The draw caused the remaining match-the crucial one between Cochet and Eng land's debonair, black...
Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon, still probably the second best doubles team in the world, beat George Patrick Hughes and H. G. N. Lee, who had been put on the British side to give Perry a rest, 6-3, 8-6, 6-2. Cochet, who had been practicing desperately since his first match, beat Austin in five sets 5-7, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. This made the score two-all and gave an irrelevant importance to the last match which everyone knew that Perry could not lose. It was this certainty-contrasted with the more amazing...
Doubles champions at Wimbledon last week were: Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon; Elizabeth Ryan and Mme Rene Mathieu; Hilda Krahwinkel and Baron Gottfried Von Cramm...