Word: forehandedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vines backers stoutly maintained that their man has the best forehand in the world, that he had beaten Fred Perry, his successor and Budge's predecessor as world's No. 1 amateur, in a night-after-night series of professional matches last year. Budge backers were equally vociferous in proclaiming that their man has the best backhand in the world, that he had won every match he wanted to win since Fred Perry beat him at Forest Hills in 1936, that he is the only tennist in history to win in one year all four major amateur championships...
Parker, whom Beasley characterized as "thin, puny, but quiet and attentive," learned Beasley accuracy and strategy, developed several trick strokes-notably "the shovel"-but never perfected a strong forehand or learned to force his opponent. Two months ago, Mercer Beasley, on his way to become coach of the Bermuda Lawn Tennis Club, learned that the wife he had married a year before this puny boy's birth was about to divorce him and marry the boy. Said he: "If I've lost a love set-well, chin...
...team that won the New York interscholastic tennis championship. Then Kantrowitz went to the University of Texas, Fishbach to St. John's University in Brooklyn. When they met last week for the most important match of their careers, 17-year-old Joseph Fishbach showed an extremely promising forehand, a splendid knowledge of court tactics, finally won 6-1, 6-3, 6-1 to become national indoor junior tennis champion...
...only outcome capable of confounding the Forest Hills authorities more than an all-foreign final was to have Anita Lizana beat touted Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, a Warsaw typist whose powerful forehand had been strengthened by beefsteak breakfasts, for the championship. Miss Lizana had beaten Miss Jedrzejowska twice before this season in Europe, but Miss Lizana prefers ice cream and candy to meat. Consequently it came as a surprise to most spectators when she proceeded to give the sinewy Pole a third trouncing by pounding her slow backhand, catching her flat-footed with deft drop-shots, 6-4, 6-2. Then, after...
...women's field also had its early upset, when twinkle-toed Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, No. 3 in national ranking, was put out in the first round by the weighty forehand of Dorothy Andrus of Stamford, Conn...