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...style distinguishes her from most of the ladies. Nimbly toe-dancing on the baseline, she suddenly stops bouncing and slugs scorching drives-forehand or backhand-deep into enemy territory. Less outstanding are Maureen's service and volleying: she has the bone and muscle (130 Ibs.) but not quite the height (5 ft. 4 in.) to bang in cannonball aces and smashing kills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Young Queen | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...Real Find. When Maureen was much shorter and only ten, back in San Diego, her widowed mother, a church organist, moved into a modest home only half a block from the courts run by Tennis Pro Wilbur Folsom. Graduating from fence-peeking, Maureen began retrieving balls in exchange for lessons. Folsom converted her from a lefthander, taught her a strategy of baseline defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Young Queen | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...When Maureen was eleven, Folsom knew he had a real find on his hands, persuaded one of his well-heeled patrons to subsidize Maureen's lessons with famed Eleanor ("Teach") Tennant, who coached Helen Wills, Bobby Riggs and Alice Marble to glory. Teach, who has tutored Maureen ever since, began developing the dainty little baseliner into a hard-driving attacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Young Queen | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...Maureen beat all the little girls, became the youngest U.S. girls' champion. Last year she kept her crown-and ranked tenth among the big girls in the women's division. This spring Teach decided that more junior competition would simply dull Maureen's game, coached her to a berth on the Wightman Cup team which beat Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Young Queen | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...Yeeow!" California's Perry Jones reckoned three months ago that Maureen was "one or two years" away from taking the U.S. women's title. Then he gave himself a neat out: "Maybe she'll fool some of us experts." Maureen not only fooled Oracle Jones last week; she had Teach near collapse in a marquee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Young Queen | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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