Word: forehanded
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...Czechoslovakia slammed a total of 43 service aces at each other. Pancho wore him out in four sets, 8-10, 11-9, 6-0, 6-3. In the second match, it was style instead of power. Sturgess scored only two aces, Flam none. Time after time, Sturgess' deep forehand drives kicked up the chalk on Flam's baseline. When Flam moved in to the net, Sturgess stayed in his back court, scored with deft passing shots. He won his match in straight sets...
...looked like the start of another sweep, but the Aussies were not through yet. Next day in the doubles, Bromwich and bespectacled Colin Long, a Davis Cup newcomer, were quick to take advantage of an uncertainty in Schroeder's forehand and a lack of sting in Kramer's service. Encouraged by an underdog-loving crowd that wildly cheered their winners and groaned sympathetically when they missed, Bromwich and Long broke Kramer's service three times, won the match in four sets...
...plays tennis the way Joe Louis stalks an opponent in the ring. He is always boring in, always making the other fellow feel he is doomed unless he does something tremendous. Both his backhand and forehand carry deceptive depth and pace. All who play against him have the same complaint: "He makes you feel like you are backing up and backing up until you can't back up any farther." And at that point, Jake has most likely worked his way forward to the net for the clincher. Says he: "After a forcing shot, the odds of clinching...
...exception: when the opponent has a weak serve which can be broken without any extra effort. His one & only stroke weakness used to be a backhand that was too flat, but he worked on it patiently, finally got it steadied down until it was as effective as his forehand...
That fixed 16-year-old Jake; Vines became his hero and tennis ideal. Even now, Kramer's forehand is hit with the same bent elbow Vines used; he rolls into his serves the way Vines once did. "I even tried to walk like him," Kramer says (he only half succeeded; Vines walks like an arrested Tarkington adolescent...