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...shots. Consequently, in tennis, luck counts for comparatively little and the better player almost always wins. Before the All-England tennis championships started at Wimbledon last fortnight, experts knew who the best players were: redhaired, lanky Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif. and Germany's handsome Baron Gottfried von Cramm...
...championship at Paris. In the final he beat Bunny Austin, England's Davis Cup No. i, 6-1, 6-4, 6-3. Heretofore 22-year-old Henkel has been regarded as nothing much more than a handicap for Germany's No. 1 singles player, Baron Gottfried von Cramm. His performance last week suggested that, just as Australia turned out much weaker than expected, Germany may turn out much stronger...
...final of the tournament* and the only chance that Forest Hills would supply the season's climax as well as its conclusion lay in the hope that the Australian and German Davis Cup players would participate in it. The Australians declined. Germany's famed Baron Gottfried von Cramm, now generally rated the world's No. 2 player, was kept at home by illness. That left the U. S. title apparently at the mercy of the world's No. 1, Fred Perry of England, who was also the only important foreigner entered. Perry's most serious...
...Wimbledon and Forest Hills. Nonetheless, although he had won four doubles titles, until last week he had never won a major singles championship. This season, most critics thought from Allison's performance abroad, when he lasted only one round at Wimbledon, lost to Perry, Austin and von Cramm in Davis Cup play, that, at 30, he had passed his peak as an athlete. Day after his match against Perry last week, Allison's opponent was the brilliant, tow-haired, temperamental Sidney Wood, who had reached the final by beating Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had upset ailing young Donald...
...Wimbledon tournament, where he distinguished himself by making Queen Mary smile when, arriving late to watch the matches, she saw him waving his racket to welcome her instead of standing still and bowing, he reached the semi-finals after defeating Bunny Austin. He beat Baron von Cramm in the Davis Cup interzone final and took a set from Perry when the U. S. played England in the challenge round. His only serious rival for No. 1 in U. S. ranking this year-unless something unpredictable occurs at Forest Hills-is Shields. When they met in the final of the Newport...