Word: forehandedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peep through the fence at his father playing there. At 13 he learned to play. At 15, Walter Merrill Hall quit school, went to work as a Wall Street runner to help support his mother and grandmother. But every morning, every evening he practiced his tennis, developed a powerful forehand drive, a smashing backhand "down the line." At 24, Walter Merrill Hall was national clay court doubles champion. At 30 he came within two points of beating Bill Tilden in the national singles, might have done so if rain had not blurred his spectacles. At 45, last summer...
...amateur standing. After two weeks of consideration, the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association finally decided that while he might have been guilty of thinking about becoming a professional, Vines had never definitely promised to do so, hence remained amateur. Still possessed of the best first serve and the hardest forehand drive in tennis, Vines last week showed signs of having closed the gap between his 1933 form and the game that made him unbeatable in 1932. Said he: "I think my chances of winning the American singles championship are as good as those of any American...
...Next day they went out to finish and Mrs. Harper, with a day to get over the shock of being outplayed by an unranked opponent, ran the score up to 5-2 and set point. That was as far as she could get. Carolyn Babcock, with a forehand so much like Ellsworth Vines's that it was easy to believe she had learned it from his coach, Mercer Beasley, played the kind of calculating tennis that Beasley teaches his proteges, to run out the match 7-5. In the semifinal, Carolyn Babcock was paired against Joan Ridley. She beat...
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...