Word: forehanded
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...bounding around the tennis court at Hyannisport, playing doubles with Mountaineer Jim Whittaker against Columnist Art Buchwald and Singer Andy Williams. Ethel's team lost. Furious with frustration, she knelt on the court and banged her head on the surface. Next morning, in a rematch, she blasted a forehand across the net at Buchwald so hard that it hit him on the cheek before he could even lift his racket. After that, Ethel's side ran away with...
Nielson hurt his wrist in a bicycle accident. But he is rallying now and will go South. His forehand is painful, but he is improving rapidly...
Coach Barnaby, although describing Terrell's present game as "a powerful forehand, a skillful backhand, and no weaknesses," predicts that the move to first seed should strengthen the junior's play even more...
...started haltingly, Graebner soon found his booming serve and defeated Australian Bill Bow-rey 8-10, 6-4, 8-6, 3-6, 6-1. Ashe, as calm and poised as a man taking his morning constitutional, kept Southpaw Ray Ruffels puffing all over the court with his threadneedle forehand shots. Though he had to serve at three-quarter speed because of an ailing elbow, Ashe won handily 6-8, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. As expected, Smith and Lutz downed the team of Ruffels and Teeny-Lobber John Alexander, 17, in straight sets. In the final two singles matches...
...court. Last week it was a Franco-American match in the gardens of the French Senate, as Shriver, playing alternately with U.S. Amateurs Chuck Pasarell and Arthur Ashe, went into action against a pair of French aces. After four games, the score was 2-2, then a smashing Shriver forehand put away the fifth game of the foreshortened set for the Americans. Wasn't it a bit undiplomatic for the Yanks to win? "Undiplomatic?" volleyed the Ambassador. "Gee, we gave them first service...