Word: cochet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Teamed together in the doubles, Wood & Shields lost their match to Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon the day after the singles semifinals. Shields, because he found his leg still hurt badly, then de faulted the singles to Wood. Wood thus became the youngest of all Wimbledon champions, the only man in Wimbledon's 54 years who has won without playing in the finals...
...fortnight) was over. George Lott Jr., who last year declined to be a "tennis bum" but still tours the world playing tennis, and John Van Ryn, who jumps around the court as though his legs were pogo-sticks, won the doubles championship in a long match against Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon ? 6-2, 10-8, 9-11, 3-6, 6-3. Two British women, Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron and Phyllis Mudford, be came women's doubles champions. Mixed doubles champions were George Lott Jr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper, a slim, serious Californian who plays with...
...Newark, N. J. Evening News, announced that he would probably play little tennis in 1931 except to defend his title at Forest Hills. Clifford Sutter last week was winning the Tri-State Tour- nament in Memphis, Tennessee. The other two, Shields and Wood, together with Henri Cochet; John Van Ryn; Jean Borotra, who airplaned back to Paris for business between matches; Bunny Austin, balloon-trousered British Davis Cup player; George Lyttleton Rogers, a big Irishman with a hooked nose; Jiro Satoh, the champion of Japan; and Gregory Mangin and George Lott were last week playing in the greatest single event...
...Cochet, drawn and listless after an attack of influenza, lost his first match in straight sets to an obscure English player named Nigel Sharpe; Mangin lost to Rogers and Rogers lost to Satoh; George Lott was beaten by Harold Lee. Shields, who had never played at Wimbledon be- fore, and Wood were the gallery's favorites. Wood beat the champion of Spain, Eduard Maier, in a straight-set match watched by onetime King Alfonso. Shields, whose resemblance to Wimbledon's favorite William Tatem Tilden II and the fact that he was the first seeded U. S. player, made...
...volley Tilden slammed drives at his feet, forced him into errors and defensive half volleys, sent him racing back to the baseline for perfect lobs. Richards was beginning to tire. He stopped running up, hung on the baseline as Tilden wanted him to. For no player except Henri Cochet is able to beat Tilden in the backcourt, and this evening Tilden was playing as he did from 1920 to 1926, when no one in the world had a chance against him. His drives, with the terrific leverage of the long, springlike body behind them, were hitting the lines for aces...