Word: kovacses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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NEW YORK--Bobby Riggs of Chicago, national amateur tennis champion, and his runner-up, Frank Kovacs of Oakland, Cal., turned professional today for guarantees of $25,000 each.
Kovacs' specialty, like Tilden's, is making hard shots look easy. But unlike Tilden, he sometimes makes easy ones look hard. He used to do a lot of clowning on the courts, but this year he has been serious most of the time. Despite that, and despite his...
Don McNeill, last year's champion, has played very badly this year. Nobody knows what is the matter with his game, least of all McNeill. His shots simply don't go where he wants them to. Last week Kovacs, enjoying one of his brilliant days, took McNeill in...
Everybody knows what is right about Bobby Riggs's game. He plays tennis like a professional blackjack dealer. He doesn't hit hard, but he thinks hard and fast. And he has control like an expert rifleman. In the final, Powerhouse Kovacs was too much for Riggs in...
About the only clowning Frank Kovacs has permitted himself this year is to develop a "cosmic" forehand. Last week a spectator was heard to remark that Bobby Riggs knew how to take the "s" out of "cosmic."