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...feature matches in the Longwood Cricket Club Tennis Tournament in Brookline yesterday afternoon, Al Everts, Varsity number one man and one of the outstanding local entrants in the tournament, succumbed to the two-handed forehand and tricky dropsliots of Francisco Segura, Ecuador champion and top rated player in the foreign seedings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVERTS DOWNED BY SEGURA, CHAMPION OF ECUADOR, BY SCORES OF 6-2, 6-2 | 8/19/1942 | See Source »

...grass court, on which the match was played, was definitely favorable to Segura's game. The low bounce and skidding tendency of the ball made his cannonball two-handed forehand, which many observers have called the best they have ever seen, very difficult to return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVERTS DOWNED BY SEGURA, CHAMPION OF ECUADOR, BY SCORES OF 6-2, 6-2 | 8/19/1942 | See Source »

Another 'we regret to inform you' has come from the Navy to sadden our entire community, said the Cochran (Ga.) Journal. James Forehand of Cochran, Georgia fought in the battles of Bataan and Corregidor! It makes us all proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Sudden Death | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Zinsser, who held down the third position on the '45 squash team, this winter, has a powerful forehand, but his back-hand is weak. Bob Holtiwanger, now playing sixth, won his match in straight sets Saturday, and shows definite possibilities. Gene Sands, Bud Collinson, and Pete Eaton round out the team, playing third, fourth and fifth in the present line-up which is definitely subject to change...

Author: By Edward D. Bodman, | Title: Lining Them up | 4/28/1942 | See Source »

About the only clowning Frank Kovacs has permitted himself this year is to develop a "cosmic" forehand. Last week a spectator was heard to remark that Bobby Riggs knew how to take the "s" out of "cosmic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Not for the Pros | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

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