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...Lacroix, France's Christian Boussus, Martin Legeay and John Lesueur. Other popular foreigners who may never again be seen on U.S. courts are Australia's Jack Bromwich and Adrian Quist (suffering from jungle diseases that may finish their big-time tennis careers), Poland's Ja-Ja Jedrzejowska (unreported since the Nazi invasion of Poland) and Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, whose capture in Tunisia was reported, then denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tomorrow's Tennis | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

Next day in the women's final, U. S. No. 1 Alice Marble, after drubbing Poland's Ja-Ja Jedrzejowska and Denmark's Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, defeated England's Kay Stammers, 6-2, 6-0, with the most brilliant tennis of the whole tournament. While 18,000 excited spectators compared Miss Marble to the late great Suzanne Lenglen, the new champion came back to the centre court to win the women's doubles (with Sarah Palfrey Fabyan) and the mixed doubles (with Bobby Riggs). Riggs & Cooke took the men's doubles to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Over There | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Dorothy Round Little, whose recent marriage prevented her from defending the championship, all the best women tennists were entered: Chile's Anita Lizana (U. S. champion), France's Simone Mathieu (French champion), California's Dorothy Bundy (Australian champion), Poland's Jadwiga ("Jaja") Jedrzejowska (last year's runner-up at Wimbledon), Denmark's Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, California's Alice Marble, Helen Jacobs and Helen Wills Moody. Of the two most famed rivals, Helen Jacobs, out of recent competition because of an injured shoulder, was not even seeded. And Helen Moody, trying for her third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Women's Wimbledon | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Engagement Reported. Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (Yah-dvee-ga Yed-drze-yoef-ska-"Yah-Yah"), 25, Polish typist-tennist who eats beefsteak for breakfast, hits tennis balls as powerfully as a man; to Captain Laskswski Karinier; in Warsaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...only outcome capable of confounding the Forest Hills authorities more than an all-foreign final was to have Anita Lizana beat touted Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, a Warsaw typist whose powerful forehand had been strengthened by beefsteak breakfasts, for the championship. Miss Lizana had beaten Miss Jedrzejowska twice before this season in Europe, but Miss Lizana prefers ice cream and candy to meat. Consequently it came as a surprise to most spectators when she proceeded to give the sinewy Pole a third trouncing by pounding her slow backhand, catching her flat-footed with deft drop-shots, 6-4, 6-2. Then, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Forest Hills Finalists | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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