Word: cochet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tennis fans who have been arguing for a long time as to the relative merits of various professional and amateur players. Those who champion the cause of Karel Kozeluh, king of the professional world, will have an opportunity to see if their choice really is better than Henri Cochet, wizard of the amateur courts, or if, as many will loudly protest, the latter is in a class by himself...
...presence of two such players as Kozeluh and Richards in the pro ranks is rapidly speeding this advance. Tennis followers are already beginning to ask themselves if Kozeluh could take Cochet, and though few can offer any very definite opinion, it nevertheless raises an interesting point. To offer a solution of the knotty problem is, of course only to open oneself to criticism but then who is above criticism anyway? So here goes...
...basis of watching the two men play it is this writer's opinion that Kozeluh could beat the Frenchman. He doesn't attempt to blast his opponents off the court and therefore would fall no easy victim to the infallibility style which Cochet plays so faultlessly. His ground and back court strokes are the most beautiful examples of coordination and effortless skill to be seen on a tennis court. They are of a type to keep an opponent away from the net as much as possible and simply wear him down. On the defense he is if anything faster than...
Tilden had not won at Forest Hills since 1925, and admittedly he would not have won this year had Réné Lacoste or Henri Cochet of France been entered. But Lacoste was so seriously ill in the Swiss Alps that he may never be able to play again, and Cochet, treated arrogantly by U. S. officials last year, had not returned to defend his title. Thus the tournament resolved itself before the finals into a contest between Tilden and the generation of younger players whom he has always so far been able to beat...
With the cup at stake, young Player Lott played hard and headily. He took ten games from Cochet, including the second set at 6-3. But his brilliant shots were mixed too much with just-misses. His backhand was specially spotty. He let Cochet have the next-to-last...