Word: hopman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four children, all tennis players, brought up by a father who was an avid player and a mother who sometimes skipped kitchen duties to bat tennis balls around with her brood. At 15 he quit school to play tennis fulltime under the eye of Harry Hopman, the genius of Australian tennis. His booming serve and volley are impressively hard for a little man; but his greatest strength is his vicious ground game and the cunning way he masks his shots. With the unique ability to shift his racket at the last moment, he can hit a baseline drive flat, give...
...hoity was the 19-year-old Australian that she had decided to quit the touring Australian team for her own private tour, and was busily engaged in a feud with Team Manager Nell Hopman...
Talent Hunt. As the Aussie players come and go, their team's most valuable man remains its laconic captain, Harry Hopman. A hard-nosed disciplinarian who demands monastic devotion and impeccable manners from his players. Hopman. 55, bosses an uncompromising talent-hunting organization that spots promising youngsters, grooms them carefully for the big time. There is no nonsense about higher education: instead, players quit school at 14 or 15, take "employment" from some sporting goods firm, and spend every working minute on the courts...
Even as Aussies waited for this year's team to turn pro, they knew that Hopman was already building for the future. In Miami Beach, Australia's No. 3 junior player, Geoffrey Pollard, a rangy lefthander with a booming serve, whipped U.S. Junior Champion Charles Pasarell in an early round of the Orange Bowl Tournament...
...family (father, mother and three sons) became known as the Laver All-Stars, and young Rod picked up the nickname of "The Rockhampton Rocket." A blushingly shy redhead, Laver has been thrown off stride by the nagging irritations of a match, is now carefully mother-henned during play by Hopman. In action, Laver is a remarkably coordinated shotmaker with surprising power for his size, relies on a rare overspin on his backhand shots to put away the big points...