Word: kozeluh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tennis Genius." Making a comeback, Tilden won the U.S. title in 1929, the Wimbledon in 1930, and then, at 38, turned pro. He beat the pros of his day: Vinnie Richards, Karel Kozeluh, Bruce Barnes. At 47, in 1940, Big Bill was still touring, and was still good enough to come from a hospital bed to trounce a 25-year-old redhead named Donald Budge, the 1938 U.S. amateur champion. Budge called Tilden "the only genius tennis has produced." Even in his late 505, grey and spare, he was still at it, still able, for one set, to summon...