Word: cochet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, May 24 Ellsworth vines of Pasadena, cal., and Bill Tilden of Philadelphia, today defeated the two French aces, Henri Cochet and Martin Plaa, in opening play of the final round robin in the Eastern Professional Tennis Championships...
...first time Henri Cochet visited the U. S., in 1921, he was a member of Suzanne Lenglen's entourage. It was his job to run out on the tennis court with smelling-salts when she felt indisposed. The last time he left the U. S., in 1932, he had just lost to Ellsworth Vines in the finals of the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills. He denounced tournament, courts, officials, vowed never to come back. Last week Cochet broke his vow when he and stubby little Martin Plaa, for five years trainer of French Davis Cup teams, started...
...Manhattan last week, in the first two-night series of the tour, Tilden and Vines won all five matches. Closest was the Tilden v. Cochet singles-7-9, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3. 6-3 for Tilden. Critics considered it the best professional tennis ever played in the U. S., found Tilden and Cochet as evenly matched as they were when they played against each other in the National Singles at Forest Hills in 1926. Cochet, still trying to accustom himself to artificial lights and the green canvas court which is part of the baggage of a Tilden tennis...
...have one, but I'm not going to say what it is," said Big Bill laughing. "After all, Vines and Cochet are around...
...success of the tour pointed up for this week's Pittsburgh meeting of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association old talk about an open tennis tournament. With crack players like Vines, Tilden, Richards, Barnes, Cochet and Nusslein in professional ranks, many tennis enthusiasts hold that the only real test of tennis supremacy would be a tournament comprised of amateurs and professionals. Much red tape between the U. S. L. T. A. and the International Lawn Tennis Federation would have to be cut before a U. S. open could be sanctioned. Even its most optimistic advocates last week...