Word: kozeluh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professional tennis which has been so noticeable for the past two years seems somewhat out of accord with the decline of pro sports in general. We now have two pro tennis players who are considered to be on a par with the cream of the amateur group in Karel Kozeluh, the Czech wonder, and Vincent Richards, formerly of amateur fame in this country. These two recently engaged in a match which according to eye witnesses produced tennis of a far higher brand than the Tilden-Hunter final of the national singles championship held within the last few weeks...
...presence of two such players as Kozeluh and Richards in the pro ranks is rapidly speeding this advance. Tennis followers are already beginning to ask themselves if Kozeluh could take Cochet, and though few can offer any very definite opinion, it nevertheless raises an interesting point. To offer a solution of the knotty problem is, of course only to open oneself to criticism but then who is above criticism anyway? So here goes...
Vincent Richards, famed professional tennis player, in the finals of the U. S. Professional Championship, beat Karel Kozeluh, probably the greatest tennis player in the world, who has not lost a match for eight years. The score was 8-6, 6-3, 0-6, 6-2. Kozeluh took his shoes off after the second set and played in his stocking feet...
Everyone knows about Vincent Richards, who used to beat Tilden more often than anyone else till he became one of Cold Cash Pyle's pro's. Nobody, in the U. S. at least, seemed to know much about Karel Kozeluh. Admitted by most experts who have seen him play to be the greatest tennis player in the world, Karel Kozeluh prefers the game of hockey at which he is almost equally expert. He is a member of a family famous in Prague for their sporting activities; when 12, he had saved up enough money which he made from...
...match in which Kozeluh beat Richards last week was not characterized by that tense, almost insane hunger for points with which amateurs excite galleries and rattle their linesmen. Both men seemed to be enjoying their game; Kozeluh would explain "Bed lock!" to the gallery when Richards dropped a volley. His game was distinctively that of a professional; he carried his racquet awkwardly at his side, played from the base-line with, a long follow-through and a short backswing, ran for nothing which he could not get and got practically everything he tried for. His returns were never purely defensive...