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...full five minutes the crowd of 15,000 cheered. Old Drob knew better than to try to jump the net. He simply stood there in midcourt, his arms spread, and roared with laughter. He had finally done it. "That's it," he said happily. "From here on in, it will be just fun . . . I'll be back. But I don't think I'll win again. Maybe next year I will...
...dark, smallish (5 ft. 7 in., 147 Ibs.), and affectionately nicknamed "Muscles" by his strapping teammates, was first matched against Seixas' blazing serve-one of the best in the game. Rosewall not only stood firm, but made such dazzling returns of service that Seixas was caught flatfooted in midcourt. Seixas dropped two of the first three sets, found himself at match point in the fourth (all matches are the best three of five). Rosewall, with victory in sight, failed and lost the fourth set. But unruffled, he won the fifth set and match...
...room: the walls cold and white, the temperature a chilly 45°. The way the experts played it, squash racquets was a test of tactics and attrition. With slim-throated, roundheaded racquets, they slammed a little black ball around the wooden-walled court. The trick was to stand in midcourt (from which most defensive shots could be readily reached) and run the other fellow's legs...
...Bill Tilden set the style -and the pace. One day on the French Riviera, so the story goes, a hot-tempered Austrian almost outdid everybody when he won a tournament; openly sneering at the tiny silver trophy that was presented to him, he set it down in midcourt and squashed it flat with a roller. Last week, in Paris, tomboyish Patricia Canning Todd, No. 4 among U.S. women players, did her bit to keep the tradition alive...
...Arkansas seldom shot from the outside, could be braked by a tight guard in midcourt...