Word: forehanders
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...Perry held the redhead even with a great and foxy effort, but Budge had too much for him. That set ended 6-3. The next ended 6-0. Perry made 67 errors, never once broke Budge's service, had not only lost his Indian sign but his vaunted forehand. But he offered no alibi. Said he: "I never got my head above water...
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...
Last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the Budge backhand finally met the Vines forehand. It was the opening match of a 70-city Budge v. Vines professional tour, and 17,000 tennis enthusiasts gladly paid up to $7.70 a seat to see it: They breathlessly watched Budge serve his first ball-his first stroke under lights, indoors, for pay. The ball landed three feet beyond the baseline...
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...