Word: heiner
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...interzone final (TIME, July 29). In the doubles, after match point had been called against them five times, Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn had nosed out Baron Gottfried von Cramm and Kay Lund in five long sets. Next day, Allison had, as expected, won his singles match against Heiner Henkel and Donald Budge had amazingly defeated von Cramm. This gave the U. S. the right to play England in the challenge round but instead of making Captain Wear's job easier, it merely plunged him deeper into a dilemma which for the last seven years has made...
...counted on to win two matches. Last week, experts expected that Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm would defeat both Budge and Wilmer Allison, that Allison and John Van Ryn would win the doubles and that Allison would beat Germany's No. 2 player, Heiner Henkel. The outcome might therefore well depend on the first match, between Budge and Henkel. A small gallery watched Budge nervously fumble through the first three sets, 7-5, 11-9, 6-8. In the fourth, he finally found his game and ran out the match, 6-1. Enraged when the umpire announced...