Word: cochet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Gustaf of Sweden, 72, and Henri Cochet, playing together: a doubles tennis match from Pierre Landry and Christian Boussus; at Paris. (Score unannounced...
...Henri Cochet plays tennis as though the game were an argument couched in a difficult idiom which he alone had mastered. His placements have the brilliance, the finality of condescending epigrams. With such epigrams he might perhaps have punctured the crude bombast of Wilmer Allison's speedy serve last week, had he not flown over to Paris for Rene Lacoste's wedding to the French golf champion, Mile Simone Thion de la Chaume. When he returned to the centre court at Wimbledon, Cochet argued like a tired attorney. He won the first two games, but after that...
There was once a time when the implausible but inspired rhetoric of Tilden's tennis could overwhelm brilliance like Cochet's. But everyone understood that this time had long since passed when Tilden took the centre court at Wimbledon last fortnight. Tilden could still sail unbeaten through many a major tournament, but he had tried unsuccessfully to win at Wimbledon since his last (1921) singles victory there. Last week, after Cochet was beaten, it appeared that Jean Borotra would take care of Tilden. Borotra was playing better than ever before when they met in the semifinals...
Allison's serve had been his best weapon against Cochet, as Tilden's had against Borotra. The final too was a test of serves and Tilden has always had the best serve in the world. He took the first set with a burst of aces, 6-3. Allison made a match of it in the second set, but Tilden served five love games to win at 9-7. In the presence of the King, Queen and Prince George, who is President of the all England Club which runs Wimbledon, Tilden won the last set and match...