Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost equivalent to a royal cheering section f r the great Spanish net star Señorita Lilli de Alvarez. His Majesty did not cheer, but he watched, animated. She, warmly beautiful, vivacious, and compellingly feminine, came up, last week, in the women's singles finals against Miss Helen Wills. The contrast was between darting flames and scintillating ice. Serious, studious, book-writing, sketch-drawing Helen Wills seemed, in her stiff, skeletonized cap merely efficient. Señorita de Alvarez came out onto the court in .a brilliant red sweater and turban, took off the sweater, changed the scarlet...
They played the first set without either young woman ever coming within 20 feet of the net. Miss Wills, smashing like clockwork, won 6-2. She seemed to have regained and even surpassed the magnificent speed and rallying power which she possessed before her operation for appendicitis...
During the second set Señorita de Alvarez suddenly switched from backcourt play to a furious storming of the net which had about it the flavor of a battle cry: "For King and Country!" Soon Miss Wills had lost the third game, the fourth, the sixth, the seventh. Señorita de Alvarez led by one game and fairly scintillated pleasure. Throughout she had shown the full gamut of emotion whenever a point went for or against her. Europeans in the gallery warmed to approval of her frank spontaneity. Anglo-Saxons beamed pridefully upon the correct, emotionless, orthodox sportswomanship...
Putting her strokes like pistol shots, Miss Wills took the eighth game, the ninth, the tenth. Then she was women's singles champion at Wimbledon-and, by popular consent, women's singles champion of the world. Not since Miss May Sutton (now Mrs. Bundy) won at Wimbledon, 20 years ago, has a U. S. woman worn this supreme tennis crown...
...Miss Wills and Señorita de Alvarez walked off the court, the new champion chanced to be a step behind at the gate. Señorita Lilli de Alvarez smiled in friendly fashion, stepped aside, and gestured for Miss Wills to pass. "Queens first!" she said...