Word: hopman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upper brackets Riggs had a cinch. He chopped off Australian Journalist Harry Hopman after Harry had eliminated troublesome Bitsy Grant. He waded through Joe Hunt, after Joe had spent two days (the match was interrupted by darkness) and five endless sets whittling down French Champion Don Mc-Neill...
Last week, as the 58th U. S. Singles tournament warmed up at New York's Forest Hills, it looked as if the Australians (John Bromwich, Adrian Quist, Jack Crawford, Harry Hopman) who had come to the U. S. this summer might well take back to the Antipodes not only the Davis Cup which they won last fortnight and the U. S. Doubles title (won by Quist & Bromwich last month), but-at long last-the U. S. Singles championship...
Earlier last week Sir Norman Brookes, president of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association, had announced that the team (all eligible for war service) had been instructed to return home at once. But Davis Cup Captain Harry Hopman did not fall in with Sir Norman's plans. He and his teammates were eager for one last fling at tennis before returning to their regiments. Picking up a telephone, Captain Hopman spoke to authorities Down Under, received permission to remain in the U. S.' for the National matches...
...from Melbourne, particularly the news that concerned Australia's newest and queerest tennis phenomenon, 16-year-old Vivian McGrath. The four U. S. players who went to Australia last October for a tour like the one which Tilden & Johnston made in 1920, knew about Jack Crawford and Harry Hopman, mainstays of last year's Australian Davis Cup team. But all they had heard about McGrath was that he is a boy wonder who hits his backhand shots with both hands. As soon as they started to play, they found out more. In last week's quarter-finals...
...year-old Ellsworth Vines Jr. of Pasadena, got ready for Wimbledon by losing his match to an obscure Australian in the London Championships. He beat the same Australian, Harry Hopman, in Wimbledon's second round, but he did it without vehemence, the way he won his other early matches. He slouched about the grounds, sprawled in locker-room chairs, apparently forgetful of the fact that he was the U. S. singles champion and therefore the most exciting entrant in the tournament with the possible exception of Henri Cochet, who was put out in the second round. When...