Word: mcgrath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skills rarely seen singly, much less in combination. The two-handed backhand seems part of the tennis landscape now that Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert and Tracy Austin have made it respectable. But when Borg first came to public notice, no one had used the shot since Australian Vivian McGrath in the 1930s. Needless to say, Borg's method was considered idiosyncratic, a stylistic dead end. For that matter, topspin was viewed as the last refuge of Bobby Riggs trying to win a bet. The patient base-line game has rarely been seen since Jean-RenéLacoste was outfoxing stronger foes...
Barricades were thrown up across the Tobin Bridge, the Monsignor O'Brien and McGrath highways and sections of Washington St. in Somerville, snarling traffic all day throughout the Boston area...