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What galleries at Wimbledon and else where like most about Vines's game is its blinding speed. His cannonball serve, which a good many players frankly say they cannot see, his forehand, which he hits with a flat racket off his left foot, are, like all first-rate tennis accomplishments, based on years of tedious practice which mediocre players like to think they do not need. To make practice less tedious, Vines two years ago thought up a game called "Errors." If he was trying to im prove his backhand, his opponent gave him no other kind of shots. Vines...
...courage, the audacity, the nerve to take punishment ? I think you have the stamina. . . ." Ellsworth Vines, No. 8 a year ago, was ranked No. i for winning ten tournaments including the National championship last year. The selection of this gangling 20-year-old who imparts a slice to his forehand drives and often plays in a white linen cap that looks too big for him startled tennis enthusiasts much less than something Vines did last week. Just before the rankings were announced, Vines declared his intention of leaving the University of Southern California, where he studies in the School...
...handed service into the far corners of Vines's receiving courts, waiting for breaks which would enable him to win a game on Vines's serve, won the first set 12-10; the second (during which an awning of the clubhouse caught fire), 8-6. Vines, whose forehand drive is now the fastest in amateur U. S. tennis, pulled up to win the next set after Doeg had led 3-1. Doeg had tried playing soft shots at Vines, only to find that Vines, standing sideways to the net and timing his returns carefully, had learned...
...Vincent Richards crushed Karel Kozeluh in one of the finest exhibitions of sustained attack I have ever witnessed. ... It seemed to me that he played Richards' backhand too much . . . missed many openings to Richards' forehand corner. . . . Kozeluh was wild and erratic in his efforts to pass Richards...
...which he defeated Richards 7-5, 6-2, 6-1, after winning five of the last six games in the first set: "I have never played better tennis than in the singles against Richards. . . . Once I reached even terms I was always in command. . . . I believe . . . my crosscourt forehand to deep court . . . was most effective. . . . Richards had two bad falls, one at 0-5 in the last set. which injured his right leg . . . probably too late to affect the result...