Word: forehandedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Champions. Tennis' unofficial No. 1 and unofficial No. 2 are technically almost twins. Both hit with apparently effortless length and accuracy, forehand and backhand; both have a deadly overhead, a stinging service. Both are stylists whose repertory takes in all the shots that tennis knows. All-court players, they can chop, drop-shot, lob or volley with equal fluency. But no two characters could be so antipodal as 22-year-old Donald Budge and 28-year-old Gottfried von Cramm...
...looked as though some one else would have to do the clinching. Miss Hardwick hit the ball harder than Miss Jacobs. She had also an excellent backhand but a bad tendency to wait for a dropping ball on her forehand. She kept Miss Jacobs so busy chasing fast, net-skimming drives close to the lines in the first set that she won it in spite of her un orthodox forehand style, 6-2. Then Helen Jacobs got her famous chop working, sent her opponent an endless procession of floating teasers, worried the second set away from...
...match of professional speed amateur deception. Lean young Norbert Setzler, one of the New York Racquet Club's five professionals, depends on sizzling forehand that shoots down the side of the court, dies at the back wall. His opponent, David Milford, a British schoolteacher at Maryborough, uses a delicate drop shot. For six games, Setzler's speed and Milford's cunning were evenly matched. In the seventh, Setzler behind at 7-10 and apparently dead tire amazingly began to hit the ball harder than he had since play started, took eight of the next ten points...
...Jacobs won the first set on steady, well-placed chop strokes. In the second, she got a lead of 2-0, needed only four more games to add the U. S. title to the English one she won at Wimbledon this year. She could not get them. Flicking speedy forehand drives into the corners of the Jacobs court, pounding her American twist serve to force defensive returns, dropping soft shots just over the net when her opponent tried to play deep, Alice Marble won six of the next seven games...
...Eleanor Tennant who, third ranking U. S. player in 1920, had since become Hollywood's best known coach. When she was 19 Alice Marble left her home in San Francisco, went to live with Coach Tennant who hired her as secretary, taught her not only a new forehand but also numerology, bodybuilding, cooking, how to act in the company of screen celebrities and the fundamental points of Bahaism...