Word: forehanders
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...When Sydney first came to me," says Althea, "I thought, this guy can't teach me anything." But, for one thing, he changed her grip from the Continental, which allows a player to make forehand and backhand shots without rotating the racket, to the Eastern grip, which requires a slight rotation of the racket but allows a smoother, more powerful swing. Above all, he gave her confidence. "I'm a Virgo," says Althea, who takes her astrology seriously. "Sydney's an Aquarius, a guy of profound perception...
When at last Hoad stalked out on the center court to play his countryman, Ashley Cooper, 20, for the title, he left his sulks in the clubhouse. His tennis was awesome. Serves powered by his thick shoulders and muscle-rippled arm had Cooper frantically switching his racket from forehand to backhand. Volleys flicked dust from the base line. Backhand lobs plopped into corners like wet sponges. Up in the stands, stunned tennis fans, many of them longtime Hoad baiters, talked aloud of such oldtime greats as America's Bill Tilden or Jack Kramer, and wondered whether Hoad...
...bottom two players, Repetto and Tamerin, feature powerful forehand drives, Repetto off the right side, Tamerin off the left. Repetto, captain of the Belmont Hill team last year, appears to hold the fifth spot uncontested, while Tamerin should get plenty of opposition from seventh man Roger Tuckerman...
Gravem, first man for the past two years, boasts a powerful forehand and plays an aggressive game. Last year, however, he was not very successful in competition against other number-one players...
Bacon's unorthodox strokes were working to perfection as he took the first two games, 15-12 and 15-10, from the top-seeded Heckscher. His crushing forehand and backhand wall shots and deceptive corner shots were too much for Heckscher, as all his power and finesse could not stop the third seeded Bacon...