Word: cochet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whether Cochet is as good as ever when he wants to be is what the national singles championship next week will prove. Certainly he seldom wants to be as good as he can be. Cochet's misplays, as much as Bernard's, cost the French team a long listless match with Vines & Gledhill, 16-14, 3-6, 4-6, 9-7, 6-2. Almost everyone expected, on the showing of the teams in the semifinals, that Van Ryn & Allison would reverse the beating they took from Vines & Gledhill in the Newport final last fortnight. Instead, Vines suddenly went...
...semifinals, the national doubles tennis championship at Brookline, Mass, last week was played like most tournaments, strictly according to form. There was nothing that looked like an important upset until the quarter-finals when Berkeley Bell & Gregory Mangin had Henri Cochet and his 18-year-old partner, Marcel Bernard, two sets down and 2-0 in the third. Bernard went over to speak to Cochet. He seemed to be apologizing for his errors, promising to do better. Cochet smiled and the Frenchmen, piling up points as Bell & Mangin tired, won in five sets...
...been impressive in the final round against Germany, it helped give France some of the confidence it had lost when Rene La Coste announced that he was too sick to play. French newspapers generously warned Vines not to eat pork and cucumber the day before he played Henri Cochet. as he had done before playing Gottfried von Cramm. Vines was not warned about eating cucumbers before his match with Jean Borotra because even the most optimistic Frenchmen took it for granted that Vines would win this match no matter what...
After the Vines-Borotra match, anything, except a defeat for sad little Henri Cochet, would have been an anticlimax. Rednecked Wilmer Allison of Texas won the first set at f-$. but all he could do after that was to make Cochet run more and rally longer than he likes to before Cochet won. 5-7, 7-5, 7-5, 6-2. In the doubles next day, Allison and his partner John Van Ryn won the first match for the U. S. against Cochet and Jacques ("Toto") Brugnon. but not until Brugnon and Cochet, playing Van Ryn's weak backhand...
...victory over Germany set the stage for a Davis Cup challenge round in which the U. S. had a better chance than it has had since 1927, when Cochet. La Coste and Borotra beat William Tatem Tilden II, his dear friend Francis Hunter and William Johnston. Even supposing that Cochet was as good as ever, of which no body who saw him lose in Wimbledon's second round could be quite sure, the rest of the team was almost certainly weaker this year. Captain and Reserve Singles Player René Lacoste, who has been trying to make a comeback this year...