Word: cross-courts
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...didn't happen quite that way. Chris Evert demolished Edda Buding, 6-1, 6-0, then beat the fourth-ranked American woman, Mary Ann Eisel, in the second round, saving six match points with finely honed strokes that would soon become famous: cross-court forehands and sweeping, two-fisted backhands down the line. Suddenly she was "Little Chrissie, Cinderella in Sneakers," enthroned on center court. She whipped the fifth seed, Franchise Durr, and Australian Lesley Hunt. She reached the semifinals, the youngest player ever to climb to the final four, before finally losing to Billie Jean King, the eventual...
Darland hindered Meiselman's effectiveness with a series of lobs and long cross-court volleys in the second set, however...
...doubles semifinal, Pompan and Chaikovsky fought off four match points in the second set against Yale's Cary Leeds and Billy Brady before taking the set 7-6. At 4-4 of the tie-breaker, Pompan pummelled a Leeds serve cross-court which a poaching Brady could only nub with the end of his racket. The Yale tandem came back to capture a one-break third set 6-3. Brady led the way with outstanding reflex volleying from close...
Harvard's Andy Chaikovsky, at number two, came back from a disappointing straight-set loss to Steve Berliner of Penn on Friday to trounce Joe Perez, 6-2, 6-4. Playing outside in a cross-court wind, Perez could not take advantage of a Chaikovsky serve weekened a sore shoulder. And Chaikovsky's passing shots and judicious lobs helped him dictate the play and win with little trouble...
Crimson number one man Mike Desaulniers started the onslaught by taking three quick games from cadet Bob Davis. Using a baffling mixture of cross-court and rail shots, the all-world junior from Dunster House sent the "doughboy" scurrying to the showers early on the short end of a 15-8, 15-8, 15-8 decision...