Word: forehanded
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...Other things being equal, he should therewith have disappeared from public notice. Instead it rained for four days in a row and the U. S. sports public was pestered with the details of one of the weirdest contests ever held, that of Frankie Parker v. Frankie Parker's forehand...
...cinema executives by playing tennis with them. In the three major tournaments he has entered this summer, Shields has indicated that he is, if anything, a shade better than he was a year ago, when he was ranked No. 1. He hits the hardest serve and probably the fastest forehand drive in tennis, suffers from a temperamental inability to take the game more seriously than any other pastime which he finds agreeable...
...smiling shyly up at her opponent whose subsequent beating becomes all the more distressing. It would be in accurate to say that Mrs. Arnold's apparent limitations as a player disappear when her matches start. She covers the court in a series of wild scrambles, hits a jerky forehand that looks better suited to a flyswatter than a tennis racket and wins on steadiness, indefatigable nerve and the brains which most women players either signally lack or fail to use. As Ethel Burkhardt, she learned tennis in San Francisco, went East at 20 in 1929, reached sixth place...
...challenge round (TIME, Aug. 6). On the tennis court, Perry's demeanor is more like that of Jean Borotra than of any other player of the last decade. He uses nervous, snapping strokes, starts his racket near the ball, curtails his follow-through. His most outstanding shot is a forehand drive executed on a rising ball as he runs toward the net. He volleys with more power than finesse, serves hard but without either the finality or the waste of energy that characterizes U. S. players like Vines or Shields. Two years ago Perry's word when he missed...
...play a match on Sunday. Miss Round won the first set. 6-2. Miss Jacobs won the second, 7-5. There was a moment in the third when Miss Jacobs needed only one point to lead at 3-1. When Miss Jacobs came to the net behind a weak forehand chop and Miss Round lobbed neatly over her head, it gave the English girl the confidence to run out set and match...