Word: erraticism
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For four sets, the oldster (27) and the youngster (20) slammed the ball back & forth, with the gallery decidedly pro-Pan-cho. But experience was on Schroeder's side. His overhead was deadly; Pancho's was erratic. The young champ, anxious to show off before the home crowd...
Parker, the model of tennis concentration, tried to shut out the partisan crowd from his consciousness. ("It was like a bullfight. I was the bull") But Parker couldn't handle Pancho's powerful but erratic serve or his incessant volleying attack. With a happy grin on his handsome...
In his first set against Adrian Quist, Ted Schroeder found a cannonball service ("I don't know where it came from, but I'm glad it came") and the violently accurate volley that had deserted him all season, and won 6-3. In the second set, he lapsed...
¶ Just before the finals of the National Doubles, at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, Billy Talbert admitted: "Gardnar Mulloy and I want that Davis Cup doubles job the worst way." Talbert and Mulloy decided that the best way to get it was to beat their Davis Cup teammates, Frank...
Dogged, deliberate Quist beat the erratic No. 2 Czech, Vladimir Cernik, with little trouble, 6-2, 13-11, 6-0. Then wiry little Billy Sidwell, 28, went up against Jaroslav Drobny, 27, Europe's best. Billy's backhand was in perfect control, and he tantalized the left-handed...